Voice Dream Reader Text to Speech App
Topic: Disability Apps
Ian C. Langtree - Content Writer/Editor for Disabled World
Published: 2013/03/06 - Updated: 2023/10/03
Publication Type: Product Release / Update
Contents: Summary - Introduction - Main Item - Related Topics
Synopsis: Voice Dream Reader for mobile devices can load and extract text from many sources and file formats and is fully accessible with VoiceOver. Built-in integration with Dropbox, Bookshare, Pocket, Instapaper, and Gutenberg makes it easy to import read material. Sophisticated controls, silky-smooth synchronized word highlighting and auto-scrolling puts you in charge of the listening experience. Listen to PDF and Word documents, eBooks, articles, and Web pages anywhere with offline text-to-speech.
Introduction
Voice Dream Reader can load and extract text from many sources and file formats. After extraction, Voice Dream performs additional processing to optimize the text for text-to-speech. Ads on web pages are stripped out, page numbers go away and strange characters are removed, so you can focus on what matters: the content.
Main Item
Listen to PDF and Word documents, eBooks, articles, and Web pages anywhere with offline text-to-speech. Built-in integration with Dropbox, Bookshare, Pocket, Instapaper, and Gutenberg makes it easy to import read material. Sophisticated controls, silky-smooth synchronized word highlighting and auto-scrolling puts you in charge of the listening experience. This app is fully accessible with VoiceOver.
Voices
- Includes Heather, a fantastic female American English voice.
- Features 60 different voices in 20 languages from Acapela and NeoSpeech available through in-app purchase.
Languages include:
English, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Catalan, Polish, Turkish, Greek, and Arabic.
Loading and Managing Reading Material
- Text extraction from PDF files.
- eBooks in DRM-free ePub format.
- Plain text, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Apple Pages, RTF and HTML files.
- Dropbox integration.
- Bookshare and Gutenberg integration.
- Pocket and Instapaper integration.
- Built-in Web Browser to extract text from Web pages.
- Copy-paste via clipboard.
- Text editor.
- Language translation through in-app purchases.
- Folders for organizing content.
- Export full text to clipboard, printer, email, and other apps.
- Export highlighted text.
- Open the original Web page in Safari.
Listening to Text
- Play-Pause with remote control enabled.
- Remembers where you stopped in each book or article.
- Shows elapsed time and remaining time.
- Sleep timer.
- Previous and next book or article.
- 30-second rewind and fast forward.
- Full sentence rewind and fast forward.
- Change reading speed on the fly. 50-500 words per minute.
- Change voice on the fly.
- Remembers the voice used for each item.
- Playlist.
- Continues reading when you lock the screen.
Visual Interaction with Text
- Blazing fast vertical scrolling.
- Synchronized word and line highlighting.
- Full screen mode to hide the controls.
- Focused Reading Mode with reduced text area and auto-scrolling.
- Full-text search.
- Table of content for ePub and DAISY books.
- Bookmarking.
- Sentence highlighting.
- Customizable font and font size.
- Includes Open-Dyslexia font.
- Preset light and dark color theme, plus a fully customizable color theme.
- Built-in dictionary.
New Features Include:
Powerful New Controls for Speech
- Save speech rate for each article or book.
- Adjust default speech rate, pitch and volume for each voice.
- Personal pronunciation dictionary. Change how a word is pronounced or skip any text.
Configurable Text Navigation
- Option to scroll page by page for visual reading.
- Footer to indicate page, percentage, chapter, and navigation unit.
- Set rewind and fast forward navigation unit to sentence, paragraph, page, chapter, highlights, bookmarks, 15, 30, and 60 seconds.
New Voices
- New Chinese and Japanese voices from NeoSpeech.
Other UI Improvements
- Option to turn off word or line highlighting.
- Sort by Date, Title, Author and Size for each folder.
- Two finger double-tap on the text to play or pause.
- Save the last visual location in addition to the speech cursor.
- This is a fantastic product and one of the best, if not the best, in the Text to Speech category of assistive technology products.
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