Start Speaking vs BookCraft Audio

Start Speaking helps you read books and supported documents in the way that works best for you. Read on screen, listen with speech, or move naturally between both as you go. Whether you are enjoying a novel, studying, reviewing a document, or catching up on an audiobook, Start Speaking brings your library, reading controls, and personal preferences together in one focused place. Flexible, Focused Reading Key Features • Read and Listen Read visually or listen with Apple system voices. Optional cloud AI voices from supported providers are available with your own provider account. • Your Library, Organized Keep books together in bookshelves, search your library, save bookmarks, and return to your place. • Find Your Place Use Headings, Contents, Search, and Go to Page to move through long books and documents. • Make Reading Comfortable Choose themes, colors, font size, and reader layout. Typoscope modes and speech highlighting help you keep your focus on the text. • Books and Documents Open supported EPUB, DAISY, Word, PDF, plain-text, rich-text, audiobook, spreadsheet, presentation, and other compatible document formats. • Paste Text to Speak Paste text from the clipboard or open a text file when you want to hear it right away. • Made to Fit Your Needs Start Speaking supports VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, clear controls, and flexible visual settings. Perspective All Access (Subscription Features) Unlock more ways to read with Perspective All Access: • Excel Workbooks Open workbooks with a Workbook Overview and switch between Table view and Document view. • PowerPoint Presentations Read slides, text, images, tables, diagrams, and charts. Choose whether to include speaker notes and reviewer comments. • One Subscription Use your Perspective All Access purchase across supported Techopolis apps. All Access plan choices and current prices are shown by Apple before you confirm a purchase. You can restore earlier purchases and manage subscriptions from Settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

BookCraft is an audiobook reader and converter, designed from the ground up with accessibility in mind. Whether you listen with VoiceOver or by touch, it makes listening simple, comfortable and enjoyable. Many formats supported • DAISY 2.02 and DAISY 3 books. • Compressed ZIP archives. • Ready-made audio files: MP3, M4A, M4B, WAV. External libraries • Download books directly from your favorite websites, right inside the app. • Built-in browser that remembers your sign-in. • Download progress, with the percentage announced aloud. • Automatic import into your library once the download finishes, with spoken updates at every step. • After a book finishes, you return to the library's home page to quickly look for the next one. Smart conversion • Convert into a single M4B file. • Save space on your device, ideal for large books. • Automatic volume normalization, for steady sound across all chapters. Full listening control • Adjustable skip step, from 5 seconds up to 15 minutes. • Playback speed control, up to 3x. • Sleep timer that pauses when you pause and resumes where it left off. • Custom sleep timer: set the exact hours and minutes with sliders. • The sleep timer restarts automatically after it ends, on the next play. • The sound fades out gently before the timer stops, instead of cutting off. • Chapter and page navigation. • Bookmarks to return to favorite spots. • Two progress bars: for the book and for the current chapter. • External keyboard shortcuts for comfortable control without the screen. Organization • Status for each book: unread, reading, finished. • Quickly continue your last book by pressing and holding the app icon. Sharing • Export to M4B to send to others. • M4B files also play in Apple's Books app, as well as many other apps. Built for accessibility • Full VoiceOver support with clear labels. • Friendly spoken times. • Respects the system text size and Increase Contrast settings. • Built-in user guide. Available in Greek, English, German, French, Spanish and Italian, for iPhone and iPad. If you find BookCraft useful, please leave a 5-star review — it helps us keep improving it!