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💯 I never review apps, but... VOICE DREAM READER IS WORTH EVERY RED CENT 💯!
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The Voice Dream Reader provides an intelligent user-friendly environment.
This is the best app I’ve ever installed on my iPhone. Period.
Voice Dream Reader is unsurpassed in the way of assistive tech. The app dictates my lecture notes for me, and unlike to err is human, this app dictates completely error-free.
With Voice Dream Reader, I am able to study my textbooks when I am in the car, walking, or anywhere I need to be hands-free. I just import my textbook into Voice Dream reader and it turns my textbook into an audio book.
If I’ve time to follow along, The Voice Dream Reader App also allows an immersive experience; it reads the text aloud - eliminates distraction, and increases my auditory focus concurrent to visual attention.
User Controls are Feature-rich and well-thought-out. We can scroll down page by page or freely, adjust the speed of the voice-over, or have each word highlighted they are spoken.
It’s voice-over is so advanced, I sometimes forget it’s not an actual human speaking.
Thank you, to The Voice Dream Team, as you have helped this humble scholar gain an undergraduate education. The Voice Dream Reader App is some of the best money I ever spent to that end.Show lessAndi.Ball
The best keeps improving
VoiceDream Reader has been a steadfast and reliable means for acquiring and reading books on my iOS devices for nearly 6 years. With each update has come more features and behavioral improvements without ever detracting from the core mission of the app-- to easily read electronic text. Ever since I got my Apple Watch, I've longed for a way to somehow listen to my books away from the phone, especially when I'm exercising. Now with version 4.7 this is a reality, and all at no extra cost. Mr. Chen's constant track record of delivering true value over the long hall speaks for itself. This is, and will continue to be, the only app I use to read eBooks, period. Thank you for yet another great update to an already outstanding reader.Show lessBig Shirtless Ron
Love this app.
I have used this app for about the last 6 years just about everyday and it’s fantastic. Not only is it my most used app but I have to give credit to the developer\s. You can tell they have given so much of their time and effort into developing something that is so useful to people. If there are any bugs in any of the updates or if I have had any questions I usually send them an email and they always respond and always include fixes in the updates and keep it up to date, which I really appreciate. I’m so excited about the Apple Watch app as I wear mine everyday and will love to see it working there. This is my second review in the last 6 years but I really had to acknowledge the on going effort of the developer/s for all of their hard work. AAAAA+Show lessK-MH
Best reading app for IOS, second place is of academic interest
It just works. The best thing that can be said about any app which exists to give access to information is that it works and you can forget it. That applies here, you can just forget that this app is there and read your book/article/text/whatever. It is one of the main reasons I use the phone.Mega1X
Amazing productivity tool
Its not whether you can read well or not.
It’s whether you have the energy to stare at a page for long time. I’ve noticed for me that listening is easier than reading when I’m not in the mood and is a way to reduce the activation energy of a task that I wish to get done.
It’s also useful for catching up on articles saved for later to read in pocket. (I started using pocket for this amazing feature) also had it read me a 50 page orientation guide for work and over al just love how it makes things easier. I read great, but we don’t all have the energy or patience 24 hrs a day to read everything.
Plus it allows me to get through more material faster and has sold me on the whole power of text to speech!
Because I saw in another review mention that you can have Siri read you things by setting up accessibility settings and then doing a swipe down on any screen. Yes this is a nice feature I also use, and used prior to finding this app. To me they have different use cases as the flow and how they are used and how well they work in a variety of different situations compared to each other is quite different.
This is useful for actual work and learning and processing things.
Siri accessibility feature is helpful to also have turned on but is only good if you are already physically reading the article or page and item at hand.
This is helpful to share anything too and then go to it when wishing to and have it read away.Show lessDesposi
Can I give it 6 stars?
I’m an auditory learner. I import articles (from webpages and medical journal PDFs), crank the words per minute to 205 - and consume information at tremendous rates. I’m a slow reader so this app has really improved my productivity. The app allows me to have a multitude of folders where I keep articles I want to reference or share with others, which helps me stay organized.
Recently, I cut the binding off a book I had to read and scanned it to PDF and the app read the whole thing to me. I was surprised the app worked so well given it was a textbook style book, but it was great. The developers also do a great job updating the app regularly and it keeps getting better and better. It knows to shorten URLs and citation numbering. The amount of customization is amazing too. You can enable the text to speech option on your phone (if you’re using an iOS device) but this app is far better and worth every cent. 6 STARS.Show lessScoutSunday
The cream of the crop
I've been a big user of TTS for many years, in fact, I do all my reading this way now. I've sampled virtually all the other TTS programs, and voicedream is by far the best. The quality of the voices has nothing to do with TTS developers. These voice fonts are made by third party developers, and are pretty much the same across all TTS programs. I find the better voices almost deadset realistic anyway.
2 suggestions:
1. Make the folders capable of holding other folders to make a collapsable tree. No one has done this yet.
2. Have the option of the 'play head' resetting to the beginning of an article on completion, as there are many times I want to hear an article more than once... ie when studying.
These are minor issues, not knocking voicedream off the top perch.Show lessXman-125
Suggestions for future updates
I love almost everything about this app!
Things I would love to see in future updates:
- customisable background colour (so it can be changed from dark blue)
- the ability to upload a cover photo for each document, so I can recognise documents at a glance.
Thank you for creating this app, it has helped me with my studies so much!Show lessAlanaKate3
Great App, Minor Bug
The standard out of the box voice (Heather) is the most human-like I’ve ever heard. Also, the “pronunciation dictionary” feature is amazing - allows you to change how the voices pronounce certain words if you don’t like the default pronunciation. This is great for the few instances where there’s a word or acronym or name that occurs frequently in a text (reoccurring newsletter or book) that I want Voice Dream to say it differently from the default. I hope the App is taking this data that we users meticulously enter and is using it to guide future adjustments and improvements to the reading engine that the developers build.
While this app is nearly flawless in my eyes now, one annoying bug has keeps in recently: when switching into the app to a reading that has been paused, it frequently jumps to a random point in the text on the screen. If I hit play, it resumes playing at the point where I left off and a quick 2-finger tap will take me back so the right part of the text shows on the screen, but it’s annoying to have to do this when I am regularly switching between Voice Dream and another app I use to take notes on the books I read (Microsoft Word, in case that helps catch the bug!). I hope the team can hunt this one down as they have caught all the others in the past. Keep it up! :)Show lesscyber553
A great app, not necessarily $10 great
First of all, let me start off by saying that this is the second ebook tts narration app I've tried (apps specifically designed to convert ebooks into text-to-speech) though I've used TTS most of my life in one form or another.
The first app I used was the free version of Capti. That app is somewhat less user friendly than this app, but its price (free) is more budget friendly.
As a note, though it offers a lesser selection of voices, many of them are also somewhat cheaper. What's the deal there, guys? Why is their free app offering the same voices for cheaper?
I rather like the accessibility controls placed in this app. They work, and they're intuitive. That's pretty high praise from me.
Most people's accessibility stuff are afterthoughts and look like it.
This review may seem slapdash and for that I apologize. I genuinely enjoy the app and find reading on it rather pleasant. Now that I have it, I'll be using it frequently.
One final note (because I could not contact support from the app's page in the app store): the app's voice management doesn't seem to recognize the enhanced Siri voices having been downloaded. I have all the enhanced English ones from each language, and Reader just isn't seeing them. It sees the iOS basic included ones but no enhanced ones for Siri. And the new Irish English voices aren't included in there at all.
Best of luck, and thanks for the app.Show lessGamerCane
Developer Response
Thanks for your thoughtful review. To note a few things: - Capti is free but getting full features requires a subscription of as much as $18 per year. For $15 you get Voice Dream Reader forever. No gimmicks. - Enhanced Siri voices are unfortunately not available to developers. We have raised this issue with Apple and hopefully one day this situation would change. Thanks again!
