Voice Dream - Read Out Aloud app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 1200 ratings )

Productivity Education
Developer: Voice Dream LLC

Free

Current version: 4.36.7, last update: 3 months ago
First release : 09 Feb 2012
App size: 239.31 Mb

Apple Design Award Winner! Voice Dream - Read Aloud lets you listen to PDFs, textbooks, Web pages, emails, and books using advanced AI Text To Speech!

Featured by Apple as Best New App and App of the Day in 81 countries. Voice Dream - Read Aloud is also part of App Store Permanent Collections in Education.

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“Both experts recommend Voice Dream Reader as the best app in the text-to-speech space.” - Wired

“This app is one of the best educational finds of my entire career.” - Forbes

“As a user myself and as a mother of a child with dyslexia, I am blown away by the features of Voice Dream.” - Quartz

“Voice Dream Reader is hailed by many as the best mobile text-to-speech (TTS) app.” - Examiner

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Text-to-Speech
- 36 built-in iOS voices in 27 languages are also available for free.
- 200+ additional premium voices in 30 languages from Acapela, NeoSpeech and Ivona available.
- Correct pronunciation with your own pronunciation dictionary.
- All voices work offline and play in the background even with the screen locked.

Supported Document Formats
- PDF, Plain text, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, RTF, and Google Docs.
- Textbooks
- Web articles.
- Bookshare Books.
- EPUB eBooks. (DRM-free books only. Kindle, iBooks and most commercial eBook platforms are not supported.)
- DAISY text-based books and audiobook.
- Audiobooks in MP3, MP4 or zipped MP3 format.
- Rich text and image support for all documents.

Built-in Scanner
- Scan paper documents with the camera for text-to-speech.
- State-of-the-art A.I. is fast and accurate, even in poor lighting conditions.
- Works entirely on device: No need for internet and your data stays private.
- Only languages using Latin alphabets are currently supported.

Reading Styles
- Tee-up a list of articles and play while you drive, walk or run.
- Spoken word is highlighted to improve comprehension and retention.
- Auto-scrolling and full screen, distraction-free mode to help reader focus.
- Finger reading. For beginners to read by at running a finger under each word.
- Pac-Man. Harvard and MIT developed speed-reading method for everyone to read at 2x speed with no loss of comprehension.
- High contrast and large font size for low vision readers.
- Optimized for VoiceOver, Braille and switch control.

Tools
- Recognize text for scanned PDF documents.
- Bookmarking, text highlighting and annotation. Highlights and notes can be exported.
- Full-text search.
- Built-in dictionary.
- Automatically skip text in PDF header and footer.

Content Sources
- Native support for Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, Pocket, Instapaper and Evernote.
- Native access to Bookshare.
- Safari extension to save Web pages and Web addresses.
- Support for Box and OneDrive via iOS Document Picker.

Library Synchronization
- Your entire library, including folders, reading locations, bookmarks and annotations are synchronized across all your devices using iCloud Drive

A subscription is required to access the app. A free trial is offered to new users.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Pros and cons of Voice Dream - Read Out Aloud app for iPhone and iPad

Voice Dream - Read Out Aloud app good for

When Voice Dream runs in the background open with a Document it drains my battery very fast.

Still the best app I have found to read my saved pocket articles to me. Works nicely with a Bluetooth headset. Now read lots of daisy books with this app and that works perfectly too.

I love this App, its amazing and one of most essential in my iPhone. I think the Browser needs some improvement like to be faster, smarter, add reading list and ability to see or import bookmarks from another browser or App.

I am an avid reader, and I use this app every day to read books, documents, web content, etc. It is invaluable to me.

Great app for "reading" when you are on the go or need to hear how something reads.

I have had this app for a long time and use it every day. If I need to read something for school or even just pleasure, I immediately turn to this app.

Some bad moments

Ive tried to set the margins within which the app is to read. No matter what the margins says the app keeps reading the page numbers and other footer and header details. So frustrating

Bought it because I have a disability, and needed assistance with my course textbooks. Worst decision ever! Only worked for first week. Now its trash. Continually crashes, books wont back up on iCloud, or stay on iPad after sync with laptop. Terrible, I want my money back!

Dev was rude, basically told me do not cross him, do not tell him how to program his app, and will never answer my emails again: The new version only lets me see 6 lines as cute little icons of all of my documents to read. It used to list 12 lines with a few sentences of each document so I could find them. When asking developer to add that back he told me hes just simply not going to do it because he thinks nobody needs that feature. He seems to think its better that the interface just look pretty.

Ben beğenmedim, keşke bir demosu olsaydı almazdım hiç, google translate kopyala, okut aynısı, robotik ses yani... Üstelik bu fiyata kısacası aldığım en kötü uygulama parama acıdım. I didnt like it, i wish try the demo version and probobly i didnt buy. App is copy of google translate, copy paste and push the speaker icon; same robotic sound. Expensive and bad application.

They include only bad quality voices with the purchase forcing you to spend at least 5€ (20€ total) for an already expensive app. Darmowe są tylko złej jakości głosy czyli wydasz na ta apkę co najmniej 20€.

Just bought the app. First it asks me to select a free premium voice. But when I do so, no matter which voice I choose, its stuck with a pop up message playing voice sample

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