Aloud — Text to Speech Reader

READ IT IN TWO LANGUAGES Open a piece, choose a language, and Aloud translates it on the device — sentence beside sentence, the piece as written on one side and your language on the other, moving together as the voice reads. On a phone the two sit one under the other; on iPad and iPhone Duo they take a page each. Or show the translation on its own. Nothing is sent anywhere. The translating happens on your iPhone, and the languages come from iOS — if you have used Apple's Translate before, they are already there. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Closed, it listens: the cover screen carries the piece, the sentence being spoken, and controls big enough for a thumb. Open it and the piece spreads across two pages. Fold it while you are reading and Aloud offers to keep going aloud from the paragraph your eye was on — it never starts talking on its own. BOOKS, AND THE READING LIST YOU ALREADY HAVE • EPUB: open a book from Files or the share sheet • Bring your bookmarks — export them from Pocket, Instapaper, Raindrop or your browser and open the file in Settings › Import. Aloud queues every link and fetches them one by one • A plain list of links works too ALSO IN THIS VERSION • Every voice can be heard the moment you install Aloud, with no download first • Settings, the speed dial and the sleep timer now take the paper you read on • See what Aloud has downloaded, and remove a voice you don't use • A voice download interrupted by a poor connection carries on instead of starting again • The right system voice for the language you are reading, accent included • Fixed: Settings could crash on a Mac No subscription, no ads, no tracking — same as always.