Voice Dream - Screen Reader Reviews

The app I use more than any other

goscuba

I can’t thank theseDevelopers enough. This app allows me to read everything from fanfiction to magazine articles to professional journals through my headset. It helps me keep up with my profession and relax at the end of the day. It is has few errors and great voices. Try it and your life will change.

Great app

eddydecolombia

Really refined app. Worth very penny

My News Reader, Novel Reader and Daily Companion

esims75

I’ve only ever posted a review in the App Store a couple of times. The last one was about 5 years ago for Good Reader. I’ve used Voice Dream Reader since its first version, and it’s the only app I am desperate for when I perform an iOS update. I use this app everyday to read novels, professional white papers, web pages, and news articles. It’s an indispensable part of my life, and along with GoodReader, I consider it one of THE KILLER APPS, that’s an absolute must have, on my mobile devices. Whether you’re a person with disabilities, a busy professional, or a mom who needs to be hands free, while doing other things, this app is worth every penny of the price. One of the best things about this app, is that each day I take about 15 min and go through my Flipboard, and send every news article or webpage I want to read, to VDR, with 2 taps. Then I can listen to the latest news on my morning commute. Another other great thing about this app is, I can use OCR and Calibre to convert every book I buy into a format that voice dream reader can read. It turns every book into an audio book. And when audiobooks sometimes cost 2x or 3x the paperback price, VDR saves me money everyday. I’ve always been an avid reader, for work and for pleasure, and this app helps me plow through books and articles at double or triple the rate I could do on my own. I’ve converted literature for my daughter for school. When she can hold the physical book in her hands and read and listen at the same time, she not only absorbs more of the material, but gets through the titles much quicker. My husband has ADHD, and has always found it a struggle to get through a book. Now he uses VDR for most of his reading, and has read more books and articles in the past few years than he’s ever read in his life. If you haven't tried this app, download it now. If you’ve tried it and were disappointed, spend a few minutes adjusting the pitch and speed of the voice, until it’s sounds natural to you. Which voice is best is a personal preference. I find Heather, the one that comes with the app, to be the most pleasant for reading fiction, while I tend to use a British male voice to read professional white papers. The iOS voices are the worst of the bunch, but if you try the Acapela or Ivona voices, I’m sure you’ll find something you like. Kudos to the developers for making such an awesome app, for being so responsive to users, and for constantly adding new features. Great job!!!

Fast response!

j-chambers

Emailed them with a small issue and they immediately replied. The Issue was resolved in the very next version. Great app! Great development team!! Thank you.

Outstanding

QuackersNCheese

Terrific app for reading Bookshare books on an iOS device. It makes assistive text to speech affordable and portable. The selection of voices is great and the app works like it should.

STILL the best, years later

Appthinker

Hi. Each to his own.. but i am giving you the opinion of TWO people in this review. My dad would not live LIFE without this app. It has improved both of our lives so much. We are busy people, who like things read to us in human-ish voices. And, despite trying out other apps almost constantly in case there are better ones somewhere out there, I am here to report that this one IS all you need. I like app. I like to try new things.. with this one, it is constantly being updated IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION with features I didn’t know I missed... I really honesty download it FIRST every new device I get! Great for storing articles, reading with-or without- voice audio... and yes, I buy the voices in app... not sure you would want to give it 5 star without that... you wouldn’t know what i could do. BUT it IS a 5 star app even without voices :) And that is our “four cents” :). PPS it is now the TOP tts voice reader and probably pdf viewer too Below is my old 5 star review: I really like this app! Affordable, decent voices and useful features....I purchased it because of its Dropbox support, ability to make a playlist with articles, (and tell me how long each will be to listen to) and most especially the ability to resize text on iPad...I'm hoping for that feature on iPhone soon too... :D believe me...I have MOST of the tts apps put there...this one is in the top 3 (along with vbookspdf and web reader) bravo! Give it text sizing for iPhone, and this is a 6 star app!

Been using this app for 2 years

KimmarlyA

I have been very happy using this app. I have been using it to read pdf’s while in grad school. I can walk and read articles at the same time. Had to read some tough philosophy text. Having voice dream reader read it while I followed along helped me ingest heavy content.

A great app, not necessarily $10 great

GamerCane

First of all, let me start off by saying that this is the second ebook tts narration app I've tried (apps specifically designed to convert ebooks into text-to-speech) though I've used TTS most of my life in one form or another. The first app I used was the free version of Capti. That app is somewhat less user friendly than this app, but its price (free) is more budget friendly. As a note, though it offers a lesser selection of voices, many of them are also somewhat cheaper. What's the deal there, guys? Why is their free app offering the same voices for cheaper? I rather like the accessibility controls placed in this app. They work, and they're intuitive. That's pretty high praise from me. Most people's accessibility stuff are afterthoughts and look like it. This review may seem slapdash and for that I apologize. I genuinely enjoy the app and find reading on it rather pleasant. Now that I have it, I'll be using it frequently. One final note (because I could not contact support from the app's page in the app store): the app's voice management doesn't seem to recognize the enhanced Siri voices having been downloaded. I have all the enhanced English ones from each language, and Reader just isn't seeing them. It sees the iOS basic included ones but no enhanced ones for Siri. And the new Irish English voices aren't included in there at all. Best of luck, and thanks for the app.

Good reader, but bad for studying

Acarlton

This application does a really good job of reading PDFs that I need for my classes. The problem is that it only gives me one color to be able to highlight stuff in, and it does not allow me to export the edited PDF with my highlights and notes. So I have to read in one document, while taking the extra step of manually finding my place in another electronic device and putting my notes and highlights in that device. It can be cumbersome. It is such a simple thing to be able to export documents and highlight in multiple colors, I do not know why they have not given us this feature yet.

Just what I needed.

asbias

I was looking for a program that would not only read a variety of file types—PDF, ePub, Word, etc—but one that would do it in a natural voice. After some research, and some failed purchases, I ran across this program being mentioned in an article online. I decided to take a chance. I’ve now used the program for two years and I’m still thrilled. Yes, I paid a little more for a voice I liked better than the freebies, but it was cheap and worth the extra money. If it could open mobi files, it would be perfect.

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