Leave a Review vBookz PDF Voice Reader
Pretty good app
Not able to sit to read, this app reads my PDF docs to me. Being able to adjust the speed is handy. I like the option to purchase different languages. Pausing and restarting, refinding where I left off and directing the voice to a new page or paragraph when I want to deviate from logical continuities, which the app handles smoothly, can be frustrating. But all in all, app is a super aid to me.Show lessAngelmean
Not as good as I was hoping
Most of my problem with this app is really more of a problem with my professors' inability to use a scanner properly. Even the documents that are mostly legible are rotated 90 degrees off, and none of it is OCR'd. When I try to OCR the scans myself Acrobat can't read the words in the shaded margins by the spine of the book, so the app then skips the first new word of every line when reading it. I wish the makers of the app had allowed for trying it out on our own documents before buying it so I could've known this before I gave them $5. Hopefully it'll work better on journal articles and stuff that were PDF to begin with though.
Voices aren't too bad though. Not very robotic, but they space the words out strangely so it doesn't sound entirely natural either. But if it would actually read the PDFs I needed it to read it would be markedly better than having to sit for hours getting fat while I do stupid school readings.Show lessRen88
Great!
Good time management tool.TheQuitter
Awesome!
This is an excellent app! I don't mind paying the price, just listening to one pdf immediately covers the cost I would have spent buying an audio book.
One minor annoyance it keeps reading the header and footer all the time, would be great if it could detect these and strip them outDaveIsHappy
I am enjoying this AP
I agree with some other reviewers that this app can improve but I gave it five stars because several ridiculous haters have given it one star, which is profoundly unfair.
It is my hope that the developers will continue to perfect the voice's smoothness and cadence. But even today she is clear and I can understand her. I have listened to several non-fiction pieces and one fictional piece and I feel well informed and entertained. A very good experience.
Some things I hope the developers fix:
Add an OCR reader to the app so that PDFs that are not "digital" will play. I'm looking for a work around for that at present.
More control over the "curser" would be better.
Get rid of the nudge that made me come to review this app. I hate nudges.Show lessLove the 80s
Good but needs some fixing for it to be great !!
This is fairly good, the user interface is not bad, the speech is clear and easy to understand, however, the function to replace word pronunciations with the correct everyday pronunciation of words feature doesn't work. Even in the demo where it pronounces the name of the product " vbooks " just as you would expect a computer to pronounce it where as everyone on reading this would say " vee books"
This is supposed to be corrected by this function in the settings, but it hasn't. This makes reading technical books a pain in the hole as they can't be corrected. If your going to have this function please make sure it works.!Show lessWillthis nicname be available
It works good, given where OCR and voice technology currently is
I gave this app 4 stars, but if this type of technology was more advanced, then I probably would've given it a three. I like the voice it's easy to listen to and it doesn't sound very digital at all. However, it stops and then skips sometimes in the middle of the reading/ text. So you always have to pay attention while you're being read to, so no listening in the car or jogging, as it will be interrupted. I wish there was a way to instantly stop the reading, rather then having to tap first to wait for the pause button to appear. And sometime when I do touch the screen, then it moves to the next page and screws up the flow and I gotta find where I left off which is pretty annoying. (But when everything flows, it's a really good app.)I do like how you can use the little box to navigate through the text and how you can speed up or slow it down with precision. Adding and deleting files is super easy. For $4.99 it's an ok deal. I couldn't find anything else equivalent or cheaper except for prizmo which allows you to take pics , converts to OCR and also reads to u.Show less;p)
ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL APP!!!
BRILLIANT! Already I've loaded 19 PDF's into this amazing app. It reads very well and I can control the pages and the pace. I read plenty journal articles so this app is very helpful and convenient. Also, before I buy any book, I search online for a PDF version of that book. Oftentimes, it's available. So now I have some good books inside this app too!
All in all you can't go wrong with this app. It reads accurately and even seems to pause taking a breath so the reading sounds quite natural. The price is right. And after trying the other similar PDF readers, I've selected this as my favorite.Show lessGlenn Alexander
Excellent
I use this for academic journal articles to save time/multitask when I need to read but am sort of time or my eyes are too tired to read. for English speakers there is a choice of British and North American readers and the opportunity to vary reading speeds. I recently changed my iPad and the transfer was seamless. Recommended to part time students in business who also need to read a fair amount and maybe have to travel around a lot and want to be able to listen to key texts whilst waiting in airports or driving a distance and want to take advantage of the time. Well done app designers.Show lessCalTansley
Good app with potential to be great
This app works but has issues. I want to be merciful to it because I know the technology isn't perfected yet. It does have a great user interface. As long as it doesn't hit a character that makes it stop reading, I don't mind waiting as it reads footnotes and even dots. It certainly is a step up from reading tiny text on my iPhone. Also, it has a text mode that is similar to Safari Reader that makes the text larger and readable, even if you don't listen to the audio. I'm going to take a risk and say that future upgrades to this app will make it one of the best PDF readers. Worth the 5 bucks which you will have to pay for a language license. It will double check when you start the first book to make sure you purchased the language license by asking for your password. I give 3 stars for it "as is", and potential for 5 stars when they work the bugs out.Show lessSingin4free
