Harvard and MIT developed speed-reading method for everyone to read at 2x speed with no loss of comprehension. For beginners to read by at running a finger under each word.
Auto-scrolling and full screen, distraction-free mode to help reader focus. Spoken word is highlighted to improve comprehension and retention. Tee-up a list of articles and play while you drive, walk or run.
Only languages using Latin alphabets are currently supported. Works entirely on device: No need for internet and your data stays private. is fast and accurate, even in poor lighting conditions.
Scan paper documents with the camera for text-to-speech. Rich text and image support for all documents.
Audiobooks in MP3, MP4 or zipped MP3 format. Kindle, iBooks and most commercial eBook platforms are not supported.) PDF, Plain text, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, RTF, and Google Docs. All voices work offline and play in the background even with the screen locked. Correct pronunciation with your own pronunciation dictionary. 200+ additional premium voices in 30 languages from Acapela, NeoSpeech and Ivona available through in-app purchases. 36 built-in iOS voices in 27 languages are also available for free. One premium Acapela voice of your choice free with the purchase of the app. “Voice Dream Reader is hailed by many as the best mobile text-to-speech (TTS) app.” - Examiner “As a user myself and as a mother of a child with dyslexia, I am blown away by the features of Voice Dream.” - Quartz “This app is one of the best educational finds of my entire career.” - Forbes Featured by Apple as Best New App and App of the Day in 81 countries including the United States and part of App Store Permanent Collections in Education.
"Voice Dream Reader 4.5 comes with a bundle of great new features:Īutomatic detection and skipping of margin text for PDF documentsįree scrolling and auto panning and zooming for PDF documents (Requires iOS 11.3)Įxport of PDF documents with highlights and notes (Requires iOS 11.Voice Dream Reader is a text-to-speech reader that turns any document and ebook into audio. It looks like a new version with new features. Take this opportunity to tell your friends, colleagues, and students about Voice Dream Reader! Just copy and send them this link: The sale ends at 11:59 PM PST on Saturday June 9. With Apple's Volume Purchase Program, schools can get an additional 50% off when buying 20 copies or more.
Writer for iOS and Reader for Android are also on sale at 50% off. "Great news! To celebrate the release of version 4.5, Voice Dream Reader is now on sale for $6.99, 53% off regular price of $14.99. I'm bringing this thread up because I just received an email from Voice Dream about a sale and wanted to make those interested aware. Another is Natural Reader, which has a broader range of format support, but does not support DRM and has more basic reading features. Bookari is one, with ePub and PDF support, DRM support etc., and has a relatively advanced set of reading features. There are at least a couple of reading apps that explicitly support text to speech, without Accessibility's Speak Screen. The higher quality voices require downloading. And other languages generally have at least 2 or 3 to pick from. (Also in Speech Settings panel) You can select from dozens of different voices for English, in various 'inflections'. But Kindle and iBooks are probably the most popular reading apps on iOS. Some don't work at all with it (Nook, Digital Editions), others just read a page at a time (Play Books, Marvin), or work poorly with it (Kobo). Apart from these two, I have not found any other reading apps that do 'continuous reading' properly using Speak Screen, and I have tried (and continue to check) many reading apps. IBooks has great support (in both 'paged' and 'scrolling' mode), Kindle is also very good (but doesn't support word/sentence highlighting but will read continuously, turning pages etc.). Apps vary in their support for this feature.
If you enable Speak Screen, then when you swipe two fingers from top of screen, it will read the text on the screen. It is not exactly text-to-speech, but iOS has an Accessibility feature called Speak Screen: in the Settings app, go to General, Accessibility, Speech.