Leave a Review Voice Dream
Outstanding, well designed application.
I have been a heavy user of digital document & book ‘Text to Speech’ on three platforms for many years. This application is, hands down, the king of the mountain on Apples OIS devices. I noticed a previous negative review about unnatural sounding voices. This is an entirely unfair criticism for the following reason: Yes, if you only use one of the free Apple voices, they will sound robotic & unnatural. However; This fine developer has given uses abundant choices of the very best natural voices on the market that can be purchased from within this beautiful software. For example; purchase the inexpensive voice from ‘IVONA’ called ‘Amy’ and you will be impressed indeed! Also notice that if you use a voice like ‘Amy’, the developer of ‘Voice Dream’ has given us the options of sentence and paragraph pause time adjustment. The last comment I would make; is simply a heart felt thanks for the thoughtful hard work, the coder of this app has invested in Voice Dream! I love this software!!Show lessterryisok
What a wonderful app!
I love Voice Dream it is such a game changer for students and teachers. I originally got this app for my grandmother who was a avid reader. But do to her stroke a couple years back she found it hard to read. So this app was wonderful for her up till the last. Being able to read all her favorite books and articles really brought her pleasure, when otherwise she could just been stuck watching tv.
This app is not perfect and can be glitchy at times. A way to look up words other than a title in each document would be good. When you are working on your thesis this would be a help. I have over a hundred articles that’s a mix of fiction research and nonfiction it’s hard to go back and find a particular document. But the pros outlasts the cons in that manner, so I’ll continue using this app.Show lessDancinfanz
Best App in the Universe
So, if there is ever a version update and an app is temporarily buggy than have a little mercy. Geez! I see some critical reviews as if users are complaining that their coffee needs to be microwave.
This app allowed me to go through over 100 books this year so far. With scanning textbooks for post Masters education and an OCR program I am able to hear any book in my house as an audiobook.
Absolutely love this app. When my phone was dropped and destroyed, my first thought was not losing my way of contacting people, but losing my time with Voice Dream. Thanks developers for your genius. Sorry there are cry babies who think they could do better. They probably failed LOGO in computer science class in the 80s and are still bitter.Show lessThankful_76
Invested
This app has been kept current for over 7 years! I read much online content this way. Maybe a watch app might be possible?
But already I find it near perfect.Cordyceps
Far from a natural voice
I’m sorry to say but this is nothing like a natural voice that this purports. It sounds very computerized and does not flow. I hope I just get used to it but the price tag does not justify what this app does. I feel like I wasted a lot of money based on untrue reviews. No wonder the app doesn’t even allow you to try it before you buy because we wouldn’t buy it after tryingShow lessmossmassive
Read the full terms first
I have brought this app without fully reading the specs etc.
Kindle and iBooks can not be read back to you due to copyright DMS or something like that. So my idea of falling to sleep listening to a book being read back to me have failed.Freezion
Developer Response
There are free online tools that can help you remove DRM-protection (encryption). This will allow the file to be read in Voice Dream.The App Gets Better and Better!
Thanks for VDR. This app just gets better with every update. i particularly find useful the thorough documentation of every change within it. It's great to have access to such great tts voices on my iDEVICE. Equally great to know details of my documents - such as how long it will take to read them.MFKELLAND
So useful
I use this for listening to long magazine or newspaper articles that I don't get around to reading. I listen to a lot of audio books and podcasts so this fills in a nice gap for me and I get to enjoy long form journalism. It's good now but I look forward to it being even better in the future.Jonathan NZ
Fantastic assistive technology for dyslexic learners
Voice Dream makes 'reading' school texts so much easier for dyslexia learners. Thank you for this resource.EvilQT
Fantastic app
As a blind person I find this app exceptionally good. It works very well with voice-over and is well worth the cost.VOUser50
