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Doesn’t work well for complicated texts
Voices are okay and the app is much simpler to use compared to similar apps, however unfortunately this text to voice app doesn’t work for my situation. I can image it works well for simple books and text but I wouldn’t recommend it for complicated texts. The app has difficulty following multi column text formatting on a page (the text you see in magazines and student textbooks). What ends up happening is it reads everything left to right and combines sentences from the two different columns making for a jumble of words. Using photo to text even when within a single column, it sometimes jumbles words from near areas on the page which interrupts the flow. Another area which needs improvement is the Cropping tool. Cropping is not intuitive as the tool can only handle a single column on each page and each corner angle has to be moved to move a square line. Would be nice to be able to move a straight line in one action. The addition of advanced cropping would be welcomed, so as cropping can isolate text within columns or around square or unique shapes and diagrams. Hope these issues get addressed in the future.Show lessDanny273
Voice stream document access solution: accessible, comprehensive, consistent and Reliable
Voice Dream it's truly the most accessible consistent, and reliable document solution. It provides universal accessibility for everyone, versatile document access from local and web locations, as well as allowing for image acquisition of electronic text through optical character recognition, or the conversion of hardcopy print or images into electronic text. I would certainly recommend voice dream reader to anyone, because I have a confidence that the developer continues to bring an enhancements that in cooperate the latest features allowing users to access and manage content from variety of local and online databases. It has truly provided Application to educational, daily living and employment settings for me and many others, I'm sure. Thank you.Show lessRonM7
100% Worth the $$ with a Few Small Bugs
I use this app frequently and I have not found a better one out there. The range of included voices is great, and I have purchased additional with no hassles. I also love the sync so that my devices are all up-to-date across the board. One quibble I have is that the pronunciation replacement can sometimes be a little hard to refine - I wish there was a guide or something that would help, and that phonetic symbols/markers worked in this app. I also have experienced some instances of whole chunks of text being skipped - I think it’s in response to an asterisk or something, but at times in a particular document, an entire paragraph consistently gets completely skipped after it appears. This isn’t every document, and I still use the app all the time. Highly recommend.Show lessjchiwhy
Love it!
I just started using the app and I really really like it. I don’t know if it is going to be changing in the future, but at the moment it is everything I had really hoped for from an app like this. However, I noticed that there isn’t much support for mathematics. I would really like to have a better reading/listening experience when reading content related to mathematics and equations. Please continue to upgrade and improve the application package and I’ll be sure to support you in any ways I can for your efforts. Thanks again for your hard work guys, keep up the good work!Show lessmatternys
Academics, rejoice!
I work in research, and with many professors. I have to read A LOT of other people’s papers. Like many people I work with, I get “reading fatigue,” where I might go insane if I have to sit and try to slog through five more pages and try to also take notes and then also incorporate what I read into my own writing. Enter this app, which I first bought so I could have a book read to me as I fall asleep. While it works great for that initial purpose, given the built-in timer and adjustable voice speeds, I quickly found that this app also immediately boosts me past the point of “reading fatigue” while working. Adding auditory input helps me to maintain my focus, and makes note-taking more seamless since I don’t have to stop “reading” to jot a note down. The ability to add a bookmark with a single tap make it that much easier to return to papers and scan them for the relevant parts. I tried all the free text to speech apps, and the built-in text-to-speech capabilities and found them all severely lacking. Voice Dream Reader is head and shoulders above them. It does what it says it will, does it well, and is easy to use.Show lessbyrdy3566
Awesome
I love this app. I've been using it for years so that I can listen to books that don't have audio versions. I saw people on some reviews saying that it doesn't do more than what Siri can do, but I disagree because at least when I first bought this app Siri would only read paragraphs at a time. This is like having an audiobook for any book you can think of because it can read text files, PDFs, epubs, and so on. The user interface isn't the best in the world but it's very functional and I like how you can speed up or slow down the voice speed and enter pronunciations for various words. This comes in handy for me because I read a lot of translated books originally written in Asian languages so I can tell the app how to pronounce the characters' names. I'm giving it 4 stars because I think that the user interface could be improved. The interface isn't very intuitive.Show lessNickname isn't taken 000008
Going back to school made easy
This app has made going back to school so easier than If I had to commit all the energy needed to read every required assignment. The highlight and bookmark feature makes it efficient to go and pull that information to use as cited material later. Probably my favorite feature of the app is the ease at which content can be drawn into the app. Content can be downloaded and copied, use an URL.
I would recommend this app, especially if you have a lot of content to read and have a busy schedule that doesn't always allow time to sit and read a lot of content.
If I were going to improve one thing, it would be the free voices that come with the app. While they are serviceable, they sound more robotic than someone reading. The voices you can buy are much better.Show lessMaisella
One of my most used apps
Voice Dream has been one of my most valuable and most used apps over the last year. If I am anywhere where I cannot sit and read, I use Voice Dream to read articles that I have downloaded or automatically synced through Pocket or imported from Dropbox. I use the different voices for different types of content. I use one for work documents, one for tech documents and one for news articles. It has gotten better with each update - I love this app!
Update 2020:
I love love love Voice Dream Reader. Seeing the recent highlight in the App Store reminded me that I need to comment again. This is such a wonderful timesaver for me and just a great tool for convenience. I work most days on my laptop and am constantly reading, learning and keeping up with new technology and products that my company develops. But I can't sit in front of a screen all day so I load up documents that I want to listen to or get a refresher on and can go for a walk while I listen. For some, listening to tech documents in audio form sounds boring but it helps me stay on top of my game professionally. But it also lets me go through my reading list from web pages I have dropped into Pocket or Instapaper. This is an app that every professional, student and anyone who likes or needs information in audio form should have.
Thank you for creating this app!Show lessMikeWithTooManyDevices
Great, but flawed, customer support doesn’t support those with disabilities
This would’ve been a 5 star review — I’ve poured over $100 dollars into this app and the voices, as well previously recommend it to others — but isn’t for the simple reason they don’t listen to users with disabilities and their needs. Before an iOS update, one could check their notes and bookmarks in a text, and still be in the same area of the bookmarks and notes you’re looking through. But after, you lose your place and have to start from the beginning. When you’re close reading a text that’s several hundred pages long, this can be very exhausting.
I wrote customer service about this over 6 months ago, and followed up multiple times, each with a video demonstration of the problem and they never listened; Sandra merely said it was a design choice, and they’ll see what they could do about it.
Shame on voice dream for not listening to those with actual disabilities, and instead making aesthetic decisions that make those with disabilities fall behind and struggle.Show lessYouTubeviewer20
Just ok - could be better
This works ‘ok’ but the app developers have really put out something pretty rough and ready with some annoying quirks. They should be easy to fix these days but clearly the app developers can’t be bothered. Like: it recognises full stops but not line breaks so headlines or titles run into the opening line. Sometimes it recognises ‘&’ as ‘and’ and sometimes it says ‘ampersand’ which is really distracting. It also doesn’t recognise acronyms - even common ones - and attempts to pronounce them like words. Finally, common abbreviations are not recognised in context so ‘St.’ is always pronounced as ‘Saint’, never ‘Street’. These are little annoying things that really could be fixed easily if the app developers took pride in their product.Show lessKateyP1
