Voice Dream - Screen Reader

Featured as Best New App in 81 countries including the United States and Apple App Store Permanent Collections in Education.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Education	Free	Voice Dream LLC	iPhone, iPad, iPod

“This app is one of the best educational finds of my entire career.” - Forbes

“As a user myself and as a mother of a child with dyslexia, I am blown away by the features of Voice Dream.” - Quartz

“Voice Dream Reader is hailed by many as the best mobile text-to-speech (TTS) app.” - Examiner

Supported Document Formats
- PDF, Plain text, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, RTF, and Google Docs.
- Web articles.
- EPUB eBooks. (DRM-free books only. Kindle and iBooks are not supported.)
- Bookshare Books.
- DAISY text-based books and audiobook.
- Audiobooks in MP3, MP4 or zipped MP3 format.
- Experimental rich text and image support for all documents.

Text-to-Speech
- One premium Acapela voice of your choice free with the purchase of the app.
- 36 built-in iOS voices in 27 languages are also available for free.
- 200+ additional premium voices in 30 languages from Acapela, NeoSpeech and Ivona available through in-app purchases.
- Correct pronunciation with your own pronunciation dictionary.
- All voices work offline and play in the background even with the screen locked.

Reading Styles
- Tee-up a list of articles and play while you drive, walk or run.
- Spoken word is highlighted to improve comprehension and retention.
- Auto-scrolling and full screen, distraction-free mode to help reader focus.
- Finger reading. For beginners to read by at running a finger under each word.
- Pac-Man. Harvard and MIT developed speed-reading method for everyone to read at 2x speed with no loss of comprehension.
- High contrast and large font size for low vision readers.
- Optimized for VoiceOver, Braille and switch control.

Tools
- Bookmarking, text highlighting and annotation. Highlights and notes can be exported as text.
- Full-text search.
- Built-in dictionary.
- Skip text in PDF header and footer.

Content Sources
- Native support for Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, Pocket, Instapaper and Evernote.
- Native access to Bookshare.
- Safari extension to save Web pages and Web addresses.
- Support for Box and OneDrive via iOS Document Picker.

Library Synchronization
- Your entire library, including folders, reading locations, bookmarks and annotations are synchronized across all your devices using iCloud Drive.

*IMPORTANT NOTE:
It is not possible to load DRM protected ebooks. All books purchased on iBooks, Kindle and other commercial eBook platforms have DRM.

Reviews

Love this app... But...
Casual professional

Although this app is generally for text to speech, I would love to see a reading mode that shows only one word at a time. I have occasions where I can't listen but would rather just read. However I have to really slow down the speed settings because my eyes can't follow a 300+ words per minute rate. Please let me know if this features is in the works or could be? Also, I have tried other speed reading apps with this ability... But they can only copy and paste very limited text sizes.

Best TTS app ever
leftbollocks

With all the additional voices that are now around making things sound almost like a live reader what is not to love about this app. I could not think of being with out it considering all of the functionality it gives being able to play so many different types of file formats. And now with it's sister app scanner, it has opened up all kinds of resources for text grabbing.

A Must Have App
Jaxticks

This is a must have app. An iPad or iPhone is useless without voice Dream and OCR scanner app. Thanks for the scanner. I love it. Kindly Insert the scanner app inside VoiceDream app so that within VoiceDream one can scan reading documents. I disagree with two different apps. Thanks.

One of the most important apps I own
PuritanMarine

This is one of the most important applications I own. I have macular degeneration and this program lets me read work documents and other documents seamlessly.

Updated
Spike Atlas

It’s a shame that the dev decided to put the ocr feature in another app. After all the reader itself costs 15 bucks. But I guess that’s the price the dev felt OK in the first place. Quite pricy to the buyers I’d say. —————————————————— Doesn’t the fully-paid voice dream reader come along with the ocr scanner or did I just misread the introduction manual?

great app
Melissatucker

great app, but if you want to know what improvements are made, minor bug fixes and inhancements really helps someone be more educated on updates. minor bug fixes and inhancements aren’t helpful at all.

comprehension elevated to a higher level
victor m maldonado

being able to read along while listening to pdf books, shared from apple’s book library, voice dreams is the app i was looking for. favorite features, - plain text - color settings>dark mode - scrolls text with reading - highlights - export highlights - copy paste text for research notes simple efficient interface works with ipad & iphone

No pdf zoom lock
San Franciscan native

Would be a great software but unfortunately you have to manually zoom out each time you switch pages when reading a pdf. This is a very jarring experience and difficult to focus on enjoying reading.

The reason I am graduating!
britany2u

Did not have time to sit and read, spent hours in my car, solution download and listen. Got about 70% from listening, 20% from studying, grades in the 89-93%. I credit it all to this remarkable app.