Things that make you go hmmmm... – Pocket: Save. Read. Grow. Review

This is a slick looking app in a lot of ways, but some annoying and odd choices made by your user experience department keep me from using it to the fullest potential. Why can’t I read an article while it’s being read aloud by your built in voiceover? When I tap the headphones icon, an album art wannabe cover page thing pops up blocking my view of the article. If I try to move this obstruction so that I can see the article again, the voiceover goes away. Maybe I’m weird but I seem to retain things better when they’re presented both verbally and visually. It’s one of the reasons I don’t use Pocket unless I’m driving. I can’t be the first person to request this option. Is it that difficult to implement? Also, I second a recent reviewer who commented that there is a nice male voice that reads the title of the article, then it switches to a robotic female voice for the actual article. The reviewer questioned why can’t the male voice be used to read the whole article? I’ve been wondering this for a while. Why would the decision be made to purposely switch the voice after the title has been read? I’ve also wondered why is the female voice you utilize not as natural sounding? If you are going to force us to listen to her voice, at least upgrade it to where it’s more pleasing. Or better yet here’s another place where you could just give us the option to make our own choice on something. Apple has male and female Siri. Even Google text reading gives male/female options. I don’t expect you guys to “fix” these things. As long as this app has been around, if you wanted to improve the user experience in these ways, you would have done it by now. Just like I said, things that make you go hmmm.
Review by -Vickster- on Pocket: Save. Read. Grow..