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Great App — Watch App Needs Work
Voice Dream Reader (and its associated apps) are excellent. I have only praise and no criticism for them. I have one problem — and it involves the Apple Watch version of the app. The whole idea is to listen to material one doesn’t have time to read. That generally means one is doing something else — and, according to my experience, the controls front the Apple Watch don’t work well. They never have — and it has gotten worse lately.
I appreciate that the Watch only downloads the articles in the playlist due to the fact that the Watch has limited RAM. That’s fine. It’s easy enough to move what I want to listen to at any given time to the playlist. However, the controls just don’t work — and lately, the app on the watch crashes almost every time I use it. I’ve restarted the watch and phone — but it just doesn’t help.
Once this is fixed, I’ll gladly add the extra star for this basically great app.Show lessrobbchadwick
Great (and a request)
If you’re someone who likes or needs to multitask while reading, this is an invaluable app. I use it hours every day, and it’s vastly superior to Apple’s accessibility reader for this purpose.
The premium voices available are quite good, but not up to the standard of some of the fantastic synthetic speech one hears lately. Any chance of adding a super-premium voice to your offerings?Show less_dlondon_
4.988 stars (and i really wanted to round up to 5)
i am an easily distracted research student and this program greatly assists me to stay focused when reading. recommend ++
voice dream reader is almost a five star product.
a minor wish/request is for a journal PDF schema to correctly read column based text layouts and also an option to ignore the contents of numerical/statistical tables. thesis table of contents is also abit quirky. i haven’t found a reader anywhere that does all that and it would be really helpful for the scientific community if some or all of these features could be added
PS i really like this product
keep up the good workShow lessenter_a_nickname
Great app for lawyers
I bought this app to get through a court record while driving but have since found it useful for absorbing all manner of legal documents. It’s not an editing tool, of course, but for getting a quick sense of things, it is almost without parallel. The “Sharon” voice is particularly pleasing. It’s obviously synthetic, but not in a distracting way.
Besides its great utility, this app stands out for an incredible degree of polish and power. Of particular use to me is the pronunciation dictionary. It incorporates the RegEx phrase-recognition system, which I’ve used to teach the app to recognize and skip common record-citation formats and the like.
It’s a joy and one of the few apps I’ve come across that really changes the way I do things.Show lessCharles Morse
Almost Perfect
I can share any page from the web through Voice Reader in the Article option which is fine. I can do the same for the PDF book standing in my Books application from Apple and open the option PDF in Voice Reader which is amazing. Then when I try the same things for the ePub file in Books the sharing doesn’t work in Voice Reader it shows only the title of the book in the Full Text option and this point misses the perfect...
I bought the premium voice Salli (English, United States) from Ivona and the voice read the text like usual, like any other voice could read the text and then at some random part or some books I choose to read the voice Salli start to read up only each letter of the text instead of reading words to make a sentence a the end.
By the way I love your app and I am sure your doing the best for make it running properly.Show lessJizzis'Js
Almost
I love everything about this app except the quality of speech. I’ve tried both, Acapela-Will and NeoSpeech Hugh. These two premium voices are tantalizingly close to natural. Nevertheless, both Hugh and Will regularly blur certain phoneme combinations. And these robotic sounding errors make it difficult for this learning disabled brain to focus on the content of reading material. And I have tried tweaking both, speed and pronunciation controls to no avail. I normally use Alexa to listen to books that I convert to searchable PDFs. Alexa is far more natural sounding than either, Hugh and Will. But Alexa is difficult to manage. ‘She’ won’t read just anything. And there is no male alternative to female Alexa that will read PDFs aloud just yet. It follows, Voice Dream and Alexa would make the perfect team, if this were some how possible. It is my hope that voice patches in the Voice Dream catalog will one day sound as natural as Alexa (and Seri).Show lessBuffaloShrimp
Great App
I really enjoy reading books, but I can not always sit down and read. Also, the books I enjoy reading are not available in audiobook form. Since I bought this app, I have been able to stay active while listening to my favorite book. I find the book I like and then transfer the Chapters to the folder I made for that book. Sometime the reader mispronounced a word and I am able to got into pronounce dictionary and correct it. There are lots of voices to choose from. The first voice I chose came with the program after that I did need to purchase others but the price is fair. My one complaint is although I have been able to correct the way it pronounces words there have been words (ie because, cause and several others) that even if I change it in the dictionary it still either mispronounces it or just spells the word out. It’s not a huge deal I have gotten used to it and that one small thing does not change my opinion that this is a excellent IOS app. I have been able to listen to so many books and there is so many more out thereShow lessLorieBee
Five full-freaking-stars!
If I could, I would just sit around reading book after book, day after day. Unfortunately, the real world doesn’t work that way. Voice Dream Reader is a GODSEND for those of us that love books but don’t have the time to sit down and read them. I’m into a lot of indie authors, and while more and more are choosing narration, there will always be books that don’t make it that far. Frankly, after finding this app, I care less about whether or not books make it to audio format at all. I’m able to convert all my Kindle books into the right format to upload to Voice Dream Reader and go! Needless to say, my library is huge and VDR handles it like a pro. I thought I might be bothered by the monotone computer voice, but I find that I completely tune it out and focus on the story at hand. Now, what would I improve? More voices to purchase! “James” is my go-to most of the time, but I would love a larger variety than what is available. Also, if I try to listen to my Reading List through my Apple Watch, I can’t use any of my purchased voices at all. I’m still giving this app five stars because I’ve yet to come across something better and it’s by far one of my best app purchases ever. Keep up the good work!Show lessWollen_Kitten
Great App for Writers Too
As a writer, I use this app during the editing process of my books. Listening to my stories read aloud helps me catch mistakes I missed during proof reading. I’ve had to purchase additional voices to suit my preferences though, as I didn’t like the robotic default voices that came with the app. Although the default voices were way better than those in some of the other similar apps I tried. One feature I really like is the ability to train the app to pronounce words that aren’t in the dictionary. I write stories with a lot of non-English character names, so it is always nice to be able to set the pronunciation phonetically. This app is definitely money well spent.Show lessebb.way
Fantastic App
Note: I’ve only been using the app for 3 days, but absolutely love it.
I was a long time user of Pocket and its voice reading capabilities but at some point it was much less useful than it previously had been. I had also been looking for a PDF reader that could handle scientific/medical texts. I also have a number of email newsletters that I never seem to find time to sit and read.
Voice Dream does all fantastically well. As other note, the PDF reader works very well for scientific texts. The clipboard feature is excellent for emails. Pocket integration allows for it to update my list and removes items when archived which is great except for:
My one request would be a way to save Pocket articles that I highlight to a folder and not have them removed when archived in pocket. I’ve worked around this by saving a copy of interesting articles I want to highlight and review further.
All of that said, $20 for the bundle seems like a lot for an app, but I find that it has already paid for itself in the amount of time gained reading documents that would have had to be read at a specific time…or not at all. Highly highly recommend.Show lessHawkeyePierce1234
