
Volume: Text to Speech Reader
Books and articles, read aloud
About
What's New in Volume
1.3.0
October 14, 2026
LISTENING • Narration starts much sooner after you tap play, including the first play after opening the app. Audio begins as soon as the first words are ready instead of waiting for a whole sentence. • Starting a book from the beginning now opens with its title, so you know what's playing. • One playback control now stays in place as you move between a book and your library, instead of disappearing and reappearing. In the library it floats just above search. • Live only is now the default for how much audio to prepare ahead. If you picked an option yourself, your choice is kept. • The app is a smaller download: the on-device voice now arrives separately after you install. If you press play before it's ready, narration waits for it and tells you what's happening, and a download that stalls can be retried. • Settings → Storage now shows your on-device voices and how much space they use. READING • Books open faster, with the text appearing before the rest of the page finishes loading. • A book's title page is now its first page. Swipe straight from it into the text; there's no Start Reading button to tap first. • Narrower default margins give the text more room, Safari Reader style, and the text now fades softly under the status bar and the toolbar instead of stopping at a solid band. • Libre Franklin is the default typeface for new installs. • Jumping to a highlight now lands at the start of the passage, and a jump made just after a chapter loads is no longer undone. LIBRARY • Copy a link on your Mac and the app offers to import it on your iPhone. The offer appears once per copy, hides on its own after a few seconds, and is easy to dismiss. • Catalog downloads now show their progress, both where you tapped and in your library, so a slow download no longer looks like nothing happened. • Edit a subscribed catalog's name, address, and sign-in. Browsing Calibre-Web catalogs is more reliable. • Large collections show every book, load faster, and no longer show the previous collection's books for a moment when you switch. • The small Recently Read widget shows a single cover, and widget covers are cropped cleanly. The User Guide covers everything new. To update your copy, go to Settings → About → Restore User Guide; your place in it is kept.
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