Leave a Review Voice Dream
Some quirks but overall very helpful
I use the app to listen to stories while working. For the most part it is great. I listened to several voices before selecting one that I felt sounded natural. However, the app has some quirks that some days annoy me. It pronounces girl correctly, but Supergirl gets pronounced as Superjurl. The word “leans” as in “She leans forward to see the screen better” is pronounced like Leann’s—the possessive of Leann. It struggles with contractions. The character J’onn J’onzz should be pronounced like Jon Jones with French accent. The app says “J-1 J-1’s”—admittedly a tough translation from written to audio, there was also a character with the name Gen short for Genevieve and the app pronounced it as General which was jarring since the character was a child.
I know someone who loads their stories to a Word document and substitutes phonetically spelled versions of these quirky words then uploads to the app so it will read the words correctly. I’m just not that picky I guess.Show lessPackLeader1965
Best reader out there.
I have been using Dream reader for a couple of years now. I think it is well worth the money fantastic application. And I have to say their support team is fantastic. Just the other night I had a problem with a PDF file not reading it correctly. Emailed support got back to me in five minutes and the gentleman fix the issue that was causing the reader problem Within 10 minutes everything was back to normal that I expect. So if you’re looking for a reader this should be your choice. I am not disabled in anyway I use it because I love it. I have it read PDF files on my drive to work so I don’t need to when I get in the office. It is a fantastic application and a fantastic support team. Thank you for reading this.Show lessRon 06483
wonderful app.
I've used Voice Dream Reader for several years now on a multitude of I-devices, It works perfectly on them all. From IOS 9.3.5 through iOS 11.
My criteria for any device and its use is if it can "grow" with you. Voice Dream is as basic or advanced as you want it to be. You can read or jump around, read nearly any type of word processor file or listen to nearly any audio file. They do not have to be fitted into categories, but live happily together in one group of files. No problem with ear fatigue as you can change voices, change voive pitch and speed quickly. I could go onn and on, bbut shall conclude with another plus. Though I like Voice Dream Reader in any form it takes, each new iOS revision and sometimes just modifications and streamlining results in yet one more delightful adjunct. Worth twice its price.Show lesscomely carnivore
The best app ever!
If I had had this app when I was in college, my life could’ve been so much easier! As it is, I have now and I am extremely grateful. The thing I love about this app is how easy it is to work with. If I do have problems, technical support is very willing and able to help, even if I have to ask them several stupid questions after they tried the first time. I cannot think of a single thing that is wrong with this app. I think that if the iOS voices were working properly with it, I would use them. Still, I do have other voices but I can use. Having a pronunciation dictionary in this app has made my life so much better. It is a pure joy to read any text with this app. I recommend it highly for anyone. Whether the person is a student, or just reading for fun, I would say get this app.Show lessEjgilbert
Long overdue review
I purchased this app several years ago. Since I purchased it I have used it to “read” hundreds of books and articles. Most of the material I have “read” with this app is not available as a professionally narrated audio and never will be. This includes many obscure religious and medical texts and manuscripts — more than I can count. I am constantly on the go and almost never have time to sit down and read a printed or digital book. Yet, with this app I have been able to get through many thousands of pages of material that never would have been possible otherwise. I listen nearly every day while I drive, walk, jog and sometimes while I work. Although the app is not perfect (pronunciation is sometimes incorrect) it is good enough for me to understand. I appreciate that the developer has continued to improve the product. For example, in the last year I discovered I can use it to listen to podcasts and even videos that I download for offline use. I would be ungrateful not to leave a 5 star review, because without exaggerating I can say that this has changed my life. I now have a steady stream of valuable information flowing to my mind. This is information that was simply out of reach to me before — mainly due to constraints on my time. This has helped me immensely with preparing to teach classes and in my medical career.Show lessCaJ4
I stepped back…
My initial review was per sumptuous and precocious as well as an educated. I judgment was not from a neutral standpoint. I treated this review at that time like the room they treated me. I was in Butte with and negative demeanor.
I ask myself a few questions; how could I make this application better? What was hard about this application? What could be more intuitive within the menuing? What is great about this application? I have low vision that is very bad meaning I need backlit monitors to see anything and I see hardly at all because I detached retina. So the only specialize question I could ask how could this application work better for my issue, and what has been done an application that is universal for all of us either with reading dyslexia or site problems or blindness. m
I found an auto control that all puts the highlighting tool down on the plate pause menu when you have a speaking tool activated. Are use both speaking and vision because I’m not completely sure yet. I believe that there should be quick and easy choices at the top the hierarchy for blindness/low vision. I give it five stars though! Great job!Show lessJosiah Glock
Great support for a great product
I’ve owned this app for years and had Ivona’s Brian voice read me dozens of books on my commute. Fantastic app.
When I recently came across a small bug and emailed support they responded within a day and patiently worked with me to resolve it.
Give these folks your money - this app rocks.Improve the app store
Valuable Time Saver
I will type up my notes and save them as a pdf file. Then transfer the file into voice dream. This application does really well with medical terminology, which I was surprised with; however, this application struggles with numbers and abbreviations. I have adapted to not using abbreviations in my notes or I will use the replace function in Microsoft Word to find and replace any abbreviations. For numbers, you are better off spelling them out. This will make any pdf into an audiobook essentially. Just rememberer, just because you hear it doesn’t mean you learned it. you will still need to actively listen to gain something from this. I will have many pages of notes compiled to make a study guide for a test, and it would take me hours to read myself, where I can use voice dream to expedite my studies, allowing me to get more done in a short time. I really enjoy the tracker so that you can actively watch the dialogue be read.
I bought the package, and this is the only app that I use from it. I really wish that there was better tools such as highlighting and the ability to freely write on the document with the Apple Pencil. I say this because I have imported textbooks over to this application, and this would be helpful to me!Show lessTSMuhler
A MUST have to audiobook fans on Apple Watch!
Awesome app! Certainly not quite as good as an audiobook, but since audiobooks aren’t practical on Apple Watch (even if you synced one as an MP3, there is no practical way to navigate through it unless you sync it as many smaller files), this app is a must have for audiobook fans for the watch.
I had trouble with syncing to the watch at first until I figured out that it only syncs books you have placed in the “Reading List” tab on the phone app.
Also, at first, I found that tapping the volume button (in the Watch app) didn’t do anything, so I thought it was a pain to have to adjust the volume by asking Siri - until I figured out rotating the Digital Crown adjusted the volume (just as in other Watch apps). Now all is well!Show lessUKDNA
Best purchases I’ve made in college
I bought this app my freshman year of college and apart from Wolfram Alpha these two apps have been the best app purchases I’ve ever made. I’m a senior now and I still use it to read textbooks, research papers and PDFs to this day. 100% would recommend! Only feedback that I have is that I would be nice to take a picture of a worksheet/pamphlet and use that as an input through an OCR algorithm that would then convert to it to a desired file format e.g. PDF and have the app read it to me. Still this is a feature that I would want and it doesn’t take away from how perfectly made the app already is. Also, the developer continues to update the app and I feel like I’ve gotten a lot more for my money. 10/10 would recommed.Show lessInstagram❤😃
