Cette app est géniale.
J’ai hâte que vous ajoutiez des voix françaises naturelles.
Pour l’instant, les voix anglaises lisent le français avec un tel accent anglais, qu'on ne comprend même pas que c'est du français.
C'est génial pour ceux qui parlent couramment l'anglais 👍🏻
Edit: merci pour l’ajout de la voix francaise. Ce n’est pas très naturel pour l’instant et des mots sont coupés. J’ai hâte que ça s’améliore et que vous en ajoutiez d’autres.
Pour l’instant, les voix anglaises lisent le français avec un tel accent anglais, qu'on ne comprend même pas que c'est du français.
C'est génial pour ceux qui parlent couramment l'anglais 👍🏻
Edit: merci pour l’ajout de la voix francaise. Ce n’est pas très naturel pour l’instant et des mots sont coupés. J’ai hâte que ça s’améliore et que vous en ajoutiez d’autres.
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Response from developer
Merci pour ce message ! Bonne nouvelle : Sandbook a maintenant une voix française. Choisissez-la sous Français dans la liste des voix, et le texte français est lu avec une prononciation française, et non plus avec un accent anglais. Pour l'instant il y a une seule voix française, mais elle change vraiment tout pour les livres en français.
See Edit Dev made fix - (Disappointed Constant Crashes)
Edit: 10/07/26 - Dev responded with a fix <3, and it has been working for me now. Excited to try it out now! I’ll soon update my review stars and give a proper review after I’ve had a chance to test its features.
10/04/26 - Just downloaded the app and it constantly crashes.
When I try to listen to the different voice choices nothing happens, and then crashes.
I was able to upload a PDF file, but as soon as I hit play the app crashes.
I restarted my phone, reinstalled the app, and neither had any effect. On iPhone 12 Pro.
Disappointed because I had high hopes for the app. Hopefully it will be in working order in the future.
10/04/26 - Just downloaded the app and it constantly crashes.
When I try to listen to the different voice choices nothing happens, and then crashes.
I was able to upload a PDF file, but as soon as I hit play the app crashes.
I restarted my phone, reinstalled the app, and neither had any effect. On iPhone 12 Pro.
Disappointed because I had high hopes for the app. Hopefully it will be in working order in the future.
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Yes!
I‘m an avid reader but my job requires me to strain my eyes. So this app really helps with my reading habit. I used TTS options in the past, listening through whole 900 page books in robotic Android text-to-speech options. This one is way better than the stock-TTS in iOS while not draining any of my mobile data or requiring any weird permissions.
App has an active and involved developer-team. Had an issue where it would crash on my older iPhone model - didn‘t take them more than a few days and now it’s completely fixed and working! Awesome app, love that it works offline, just on the phone. Looking forward to have German language support in the future
App has an active and involved developer-team. Had an issue where it would crash on my older iPhone model - didn‘t take them more than a few days and now it’s completely fixed and working! Awesome app, love that it works offline, just on the phone. Looking forward to have German language support in the future
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Response from developer
I'm sorry about this. Version 1.0.4 crashed on iPhone 12-generation phones (A14 chip) as soon as the voice started generating speech, which can happen right after launch. Version 1.0.5, out now, fixes that crash, and I tested it on an iPhone 12 mini. Please update; the first playback after installing takes about 10-15 seconds while the speech model compiles, and after that it starts quickly. If it still crashes on your phone, please email me at support@sandbook.app so I can look at it directly.
Ok but …
I really like that the voices are realistic and they actually work. I like the simplification of this app just take a picture and it scans it.
However, I don’t like that every uploaded photo the audio states “page 1” “page 2” etc. for starters…. those are not the actual page numbers in our book because we have to constantly be scanning new pages within new chapters of the book. It’s distracting from the text and the flow of the audio. Also, even if got scan a photo of the page perfectly somehow the Audio states a word that is sooo contrary to what the actual word is. A lot of mistakes on the audio reading simple words. Additionally, I don’t like the limit of 24 pages of scanning. That doesn’t cover the entire chapter of a book.
Also, I don’t like how I cannot name the bundle of pages I’ve already scanned.
By far, The worse thing is the fact there is no background audio play back. Meaning if my phone gets on “locked screen” the audio will immediately stop. The developer thought adding ONE PAGE audio playback option was enough? It takes less than 5 mins to read a page… you want me to select the button to play back the next page every single time through out the book? That is ridiculous. Amongst other issues. I look forward to seeing this app updated to improve on these features and then to become the #1 app of its kind but right now- these are my issues with it.
However, I don’t like that every uploaded photo the audio states “page 1” “page 2” etc. for starters…. those are not the actual page numbers in our book because we have to constantly be scanning new pages within new chapters of the book. It’s distracting from the text and the flow of the audio. Also, even if got scan a photo of the page perfectly somehow the Audio states a word that is sooo contrary to what the actual word is. A lot of mistakes on the audio reading simple words. Additionally, I don’t like the limit of 24 pages of scanning. That doesn’t cover the entire chapter of a book.
Also, I don’t like how I cannot name the bundle of pages I’ve already scanned.
By far, The worse thing is the fact there is no background audio play back. Meaning if my phone gets on “locked screen” the audio will immediately stop. The developer thought adding ONE PAGE audio playback option was enough? It takes less than 5 mins to read a page… you want me to select the button to play back the next page every single time through out the book? That is ridiculous. Amongst other issues. I look forward to seeing this app updated to improve on these features and then to become the #1 app of its kind but right now- these are my issues with it.
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Very good app
Get it!
It’s quite amazing!
Great voice, struggles with prosody
The voice itself is great. It sounds very human. But it struggles with pronouncing certain things and where to pause in sentences and phrases. The PDF I fed it had the word clothing split between two lines with a between CLOTH on first line and ING on second line. It pronounced it as two words instead of one. Another example is the words great apes. It pronounced it “gray-it ai-ips.” The word laid was pronounced “lay-id.” It also pauses at the end of every line for as long as at the end of every song entrance, making the reading choppy. The funniest was when humans was split between lines as hu-mans and it pronounced it “who” pause “mans.”
Would love using the voice, if the reading flowed and pronunciation improved!
Would love using the voice, if the reading flowed and pronunciation improved!
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Phenomenal, wish there was a built in dictionary too.
En attendant une voix française
Cette appli est la meilleure de celles que j’ai testé pour lire des documents textes mais le problème est qu’il n’y a pas de voix françaises, ce qui fait que les textes sont lus avec un terrible accent anglais ou américain selon la voix choisie. J’espère qu’une voix française arrivera bientôt. Sinon, super app pour n’importe quel texte en anglais. 👌
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Response from developer
Merci pour ce retour. Bonne nouvelle : Sandbook a maintenant une voix française, avec une vraie prononciation française. Vous la trouverez dans la liste des voix, sous Français. Elle lit le texte français sans l'accent anglais dont vous parliez. Je serais curieux de savoir ce que vous en pensez.
무료라서 좋아요..
정말 잘 쓰고 있습니다
Response from developer
감사합니다! 잘 쓰고 계신다니 정말 기쁩니다. Sandbook은 무료이고, 계정 없이 기기 안에서만 작동합니다.
Strange/Foreign Pronunciations 🙅♂️, but Human-Sounding 👍
The speech started off sounding so surprisingly *normal*/acceptable (which is above par for local iOS TTS). And then it reached the many words in the source text that include -eight (eight, weight) instantly revealed that all voice/region variants apparently come from one distinctively unusual/foreign source.
It would be great if we could train/adopt new voices based on voice recordings (voice cloning).
Continuing to avoid using this for now.
It would be great if we could train/adopt new voices based on voice recordings (voice cloning).
Continuing to avoid using this for now.
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Incredible piece of software
As per the title I’m staggered that text to speech with Kokoro to now run on an iPhone and this piece of software coming out free is a brilliant GUI wrapper, really grateful for the developers work
Simply incredible
Thank you so much for building this
Not perfect but good
The voice of tts is very good but it canot the end of sentence corrctly and stop in end of the line that read not bu . Also it doesn’t detect words that splited by - please fix this items thank you alot .
It’s free
Good alternative to paid TTS
Gute app
Mir fehlt dass man das ganze Buch vorbereiten kann also denn Audio und somit auch mit ausgeschalteten Handy es hören kann
Response from developer
Danke! Ein ganzes Buch auf einmal vorzubereiten geht leider noch nicht. Ein Kapitel geht aber schon: Im Buch oben im ...-Menü "Prepare chapter for lock screen" wählen, die App während der Vorbereitung offen lassen, danach läuft das Kapitel auch bei gesperrtem Handy weiter. Den Wunsch nach dem ganzen Buch habe ich mir notiert.
Very Promising!
The ability to upload a document is incredibly useful. But, like another commenter said, there are awkward pauses. Once that’s resolved, this is likely be my favorite app for reading PDFs
Nope
Doesn’t matter work at all
Impressed.
An exciting app with many possibilities.
Amazing!
Would be great if it had a web app so it can also be used on desktop, but the ios app is great
