ListenLeaf

This is ListenLeaf’s largest update yet, with major improvements to narration, reading, organization, accessibility, and professional document review. NEURAL NARRATION • New private, on-device Neural Voices for more natural long-form listening. • Seven carefully selected male and female voices. • Optimized 1×, 1.25×, and 1.5× playback speeds. • Improved voice consistency between sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. • Your book text remains on your device during narration. SMOOTHER, MORE RELIABLE PLAYBACK • Rebuilt audio scheduling for more consistent continuous listening. • Reduced gaps, repeated words, clipped endings, and delayed starts. • Improved long-session performance and recovery from temporary synthesis delays. • Better Bluetooth, CarPlay, lock-screen, and Apple Watch behavior. • More reliable play, pause, seek, chapter navigation, interruptions, and relaunch recovery. • Playback speed now remains consistent when changing voices. REDESIGNED READER • A cleaner, more spacious reading interface with refined translucent controls. • Improved light and dark appearances. • Clearer title and chapter presentation with a subtle text fade beneath the toolbar. • Added elapsed time, remaining time, percentage complete, and percentage remaining. • Improved word and passage highlighting alignment during narration. • Dedicated page margins keep annotation icons from covering the text. TEXT SELECTION AND ANNOTATIONS • More natural long-press passage selection. • Read from a selection, highlight, add a note, apply a tag, bookmark, copy, share, search, or define text. • Notes, highlights, bookmarks, and tags remain anchored to their source passages. • Margin icons make saved material easy to find while reading. • A new Saved Content tray collects annotations for the current book. AMBIENT LISTENING • Add background soundscapes while listening. • Improved narration and ambience mixing across the speaker, Bluetooth, and CarPlay. LISTENLEAF LEGAL • A dedicated workspace for reviewing and organizing legal documents. • Create and manage matters, assignments, deadlines, notes, tags, citations, and review work. • Dictate source-linked review notes with clear permission and privacy states. • Build review reports and professional handoff materials. • Preview and export PDF, Word, and document packets. • Archive and delete matters with associated-artifact cleanup. • Improved encrypted storage, Face ID, save recovery, purchase restoration, and entitlement handling. • Refined navigation and responsive iPhone and iPad layouts. LIBRARY AND IMPORTS • Redesigned Library with clearer reading and import status. • Improved document conversion, cancellation, reimporting, and error recovery. • Better support for complex, multilingual, right-to-left, malformed, and large documents. • Expanded search, filtering, organization, and library tools. MORE READING TOOLS • Restored RSVP, Focus Loop, focus modes, Catch-Up, sleep timer, and in-book search. • Expanded study organization, themes, typography, gestures, and appearance controls. • Improved SnapRead and library power tools. ACTIVITY AND PROGRESS • Track reading time, goals, streaks, achievements, and completed books. • Clearer weekly and monthly progress reporting. • More reliable completion and activity tracking across relaunches and time-zone changes. ACCESSIBILITY • Improved VoiceOver labels, focus retention, heading navigation, and narration tracking. • Better Voice Control, Switch Control, keyboard navigation, and maximum Dynamic Type support. • Improved contrast, reduced-motion behavior, and large-text layouts. PRIVACY, PURCHASES, AND QUALITY • Strengthened local data protection and recoverable saving. • Improved purchases, restoration, offline access, and entitlement recovery. • Expanded automated testing for narration, imports, migrations, accessibility, Legal workflows, and failure recovery. • Numerous performance, memory, stability, and interface improvements throughout ListenLeaf.