Voice Dream - Read Aloud App Reviews

VERSION
4.27.5
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
6,146
PRICE
Free

Voice Dream - Read Aloud App Description & Overview

What is voice dream - read aloud app? Apple Design Award Winner! Voice Dream - Read Aloud lets you listen to PDFs, textbooks, Web pages, emails, and books using advanced AI Text To Speech!

Featured by Apple as Best New App and App of the Day in 81 countries. Voice Dream - Read Aloud is also part of App Store Permanent Collections in Education.

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“Both experts recommend Voice Dream Reader as the best app in the text-to-speech space.” - Wired

“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

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Text-to-Speech
- 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.
- Correct pronunciation with your own pronunciation dictionary.
- All voices work offline and play in the background even with the screen locked.

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

Built-in Scanner
- Scan paper documents with the camera for text-to-speech.
- State-of-the-art A.I. is fast and accurate, even in poor lighting conditions.
- Works entirely on device: No need for internet and your data stays private.
- Only languages using Latin alphabets are currently supported.

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
- Recognize text for scanned PDF documents.
- Bookmarking, text highlighting and annotation. Highlights and notes can be exported.
- Full-text search.
- Built-in dictionary.
- Automatically 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

A subscription is required to access the app. A free trial is offered to new users.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

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App Name Voice Dream - Read Aloud
Category Education
Published
Updated 05 February 2024, Monday
File Size 222.98 MB

Voice Dream - Read Aloud Comments & Reviews 2024

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Amazing app. I’ve been using is for some years now, it replaced brutally expensive amazon’s audible books. I upload pdf’s, txt’s, doc’s to a folder on my website and when I want to read another book, I just tap the name and it gets it. I’m using the voices of Sharon and Paul. This awesome app helped me read hundreds of books during rush hour drive, while working and resting. It remembers position for later, it has adjustable speed and now the new version even removes long headers and footers from PDF’s. I bought it for some $20 or so (plus voices) and now it’s much less and a must have for people who don’t want to spend $20-30 per book on audible. It’s the best app I have on my phone. I can’t believe that someone would give it less than 5 stars. Also, there is a fast support, I’ve asked questions and got emails within a few hours.

Doesn’t add much to system capabilities. My fault, I suppose, for not doing due diligence but I don’t really think this app’s features reflects its price. It is simply an interface for built-in text-to-speech system feature on iOS (with the option of purchasing additional voices which are better but, of course, never as good in practice as the promotional audio samples suggest). Without this app, you can already tell Siri to read you anything, and you can even change the frequency/pitch using free apps (like Apple’s own Workflow app), so this app doesn’t really add much. Voice Dream Reader doesn’t really do what I was hoping it would do, like be smart about not reading footers (which can be very long). If I can quickly delete footers with a simple regex workflow (I’m not a programmer) before it speaks text, then surely this app’s developers can, too? Their pdf margin editor is very difficult to work—surprising given that this app geared to improve digital accessibility. I like the tap gestures, but other than that, this I app doesn’t really add much value to system features, certainly not the kind of value suggested by the price.

Nothing even comes close. Any negative reviews this app gets is usually due to the developer changing the layout or removing an outdated, obsolete feature, which are emotional reactions to change. Objectively, there are computer programs that do all the same things this app does, and does it better, but that is an unfair comparison. When contrasting this app to its peers here on the app store, there is nothing quite like Voice Dream Reader. I can't imagine ever using any of the alternatives. If, for whatever reason, the developer stops supporting the app, and iOS and iPhones upgrade to the point where VDR would no longer work, I wouldn't upgrade my phone or operating system, hands down. That being said, I hope Winston keeps the updates and improvements coming for a long time to come.

What a wonderful app!. I love Voice Dream it is such a game changer for students and teachers. I originally got this app for my grandmother who was a avid reader. But do to her stroke a couple years back she found it hard to read. So this app was wonderful for her up till the last. Being able to read all her favorite books and articles really brought her pleasure, when otherwise she could just been stuck watching tv. This app is not perfect and can be glitchy at times. A way to look up words other than a title in each document would be good. When you are working on your thesis this would be a help. I have over a hundred articles that’s a mix of fiction research and nonfiction it’s hard to go back and find a particular document. But the pros outlasts the cons in that manner, so I’ll continue using this app.

Well worth the purchase!. I cannot express to you how much value this app has given me over the past year and a half. I initially got it during the pandemic as a tool to encourage me to read research papers more often and only 6 months later I find my library filled with all types of books and material. I spend at least an hour a day reading or listening to a book now and I’ve never been more grateful for such a good service. Other apps have tried to hook me to a subscription or give me ads while not delivering nearly the same quality of text recognition and reader extensibility. Very grateful to the team working on this. One thing I’d certainly love to see for this app in the future is some sort of extension into reading websites. I’ve purchased the pack of scanner, writer and reader(all of which perform great) but I think one really useful area this has yet to be applied to is reading articles on websites or blogs. Again really happy with this app and hope to see great things for the devs in the future!

When it's working, it's almost perfect. I’mblind, and I love the fact that I can play DAISY audio with this app, but there are a couple of bugs. First, if I'm using Bluetootht headphones, and stop playback, I have to make sure I go into the app on my phone itself to resume, or it does something funny. It stops playing, but when I check the status, it shows that it's still playing, so I must pause and play again. The other bug is a huge problem. When I reboot my phone for any reason, whether I was in the app or not, random things in my library become unavailable, and I have to delete and redownload them. This is a major pain, especially for large files, because they don't always download properly. This also happened when I moved the app on the homescreen. You can do better than this, so please show me what you got.

Error Adding Files Glitch. Would be nice if the developers can fix the error loading files glitch I’ve been experiencing for the past 2 weeks. I’ve reached out but so far no response. I’ve tried various files to test if it was only an epub issue but I keep getting the red exclamation symbol indicating the file can’t be added no matter which format it’s in. I’ve deleted the app and downloaded it again multiple times. Before turning the cloud sync back on after reinstalling, I’ve tried adding documents and it works up o into the dreaded error message appears again when trying to load a file. Other than this hiccup, I’d give the app a solid 4 stars. I’ll update my review if the issue is ever addressed. On a more positive note: I absolutely love being able to hear any and everything read aloud to me. People are complaining about the robotic voices but honestly out of all of them, I’d say the UK voice of Amy was worth all $5 I spent on her. She’s the best voice I’ve listened to so far and have clocked maybe thousands of hours hearing her read to me. I can’t complain there. The voices aren’t perfect in their reading of certain words and can be a bit annoying when reading certain words (especially ‘mmh or shhh’) but for the most part, the pronunciation dictionary has been a heaven sent tool and I utilize it often for my sanity.

Great App — Watch App Needs Work. Voice Dream Reader (and its associated apps) are excellent. I have only praise and no criticism for them. I have one problem — and it involves the Apple Watch version of the app. The whole idea is to listen to material one doesn’t have time to read. That generally means one is doing something else — and, according to my experience, the controls front the Apple Watch don’t work well. They never have — and it has gotten worse lately. I appreciate that the Watch only downloads the articles in the playlist due to the fact that the Watch has limited RAM. That’s fine. It’s easy enough to move what I want to listen to at any given time to the playlist. However, the controls just don’t work — and lately, the app on the watch crashes almost every time I use it. I’ve restarted the watch and phone — but it just doesn’t help. Once this is fixed, I’ll gladly add the extra star for this basically great app.

Great app!. So I have been heavily considering speechify, natural reader, and voice dream since I have trouble paying attention and grasping the context of books I read. I get distracted very easily reading myself so I prefer to listen to someone else read to me. I decided to go with Voicedream because not only is it a MUCH CHEAPER option unlike speechify and natural reader, it's also got good reviews which I always look at before spending my money. The voice of Micah is the most natural one on the app and I listen to him read my books effortlessly and naturally. I LOVE this app and I'm so glad I only ended up spending like $25 on everything rather than $100+ on the other app. If you're like me and have trouble reading alone, you'll enjoy this app!

Great app for lawyers. I bought this app to get through a court record while driving but have since found it useful for absorbing all manner of legal documents. It’s not an editing tool, of course, but for getting a quick sense of things, it is almost without parallel. The “Sharon” voice is particularly pleasing. It’s obviously synthetic, but not in a distracting way. Besides its great utility, this app stands out for an incredible degree of polish and power. Of particular use to me is the pronunciation dictionary. It incorporates the RegEx phrase-recognition system, which I’ve used to teach the app to recognize and skip common record-citation formats and the like. It’s a joy and one of the few apps I’ve come across that really changes the way I do things.

MIRACLE APP!!. Thank you to the creators of this miracle app!! I usually never write reviews but I was soo happy to find an app that can help me so much! I’m in nursing school and I have ALOT of reading to do in such a short span. I wasn’t sure how I was going to read all of those chapters, plus do my homework and go to work all at the same time. I was starting to fall behind of my readings but thanks to this app, I was able to catch up on 5 out of 9 chapters in about a day, all while managing to keep everything else in my life on track. Not only did I not have to physically read the book myself cause the app is reading for me, but I actually retain a lot more information through this. I would usually take half a day just to read one chapter due to boredom, tiredness or just busy with other stuff, so I am very excited to use this while I’m in school. Thank you so much!

Great App, Minor Bug. The standard out of the box voice (Heather) is the most human-like I’ve ever heard. Also, the “pronunciation dictionary” feature is amazing - allows you to change how the voices pronounce certain words if you don’t like the default pronunciation. This is great for the few instances where there’s a word or acronym or name that occurs frequently in a text (reoccurring newsletter or book) that I want Voice Dream to say it differently from the default. I hope the App is taking this data that we users meticulously enter and is using it to guide future adjustments and improvements to the reading engine that the developers build. While this app is nearly flawless in my eyes now, one annoying bug has keeps in recently: when switching into the app to a reading that has been paused, it frequently jumps to a random point in the text on the screen. If I hit play, it resumes playing at the point where I left off and a quick 2-finger tap will take me back so the right part of the text shows on the screen, but it’s annoying to have to do this when I am regularly switching between Voice Dream and another app I use to take notes on the books I read (Microsoft Word, in case that helps catch the bug!). I hope the team can hunt this one down as they have caught all the others in the past. Keep it up! :)

I stepped back…. My initial review was per sumptuous and precocious as well as an educated. I judgment was not from a neutral standpoint. I treated this review at that time like the room they treated me. I was in Butte with and negative demeanor. I ask myself a few questions; how could I make this application better? What was hard about this application? What could be more intuitive within the menuing? What is great about this application? I have low vision that is very bad meaning I need backlit monitors to see anything and I see hardly at all because I detached retina. So the only specialize question I could ask how could this application work better for my issue, and what has been done an application that is universal for all of us either with reading dyslexia or site problems or blindness. m I found an auto control that all puts the highlighting tool down on the plate pause menu when you have a speaking tool activated. Are use both speaking and vision because I’m not completely sure yet. I believe that there should be quick and easy choices at the top the hierarchy for blindness/low vision. I give it five stars though! Great job!

An AppStore Staple. I've had this app for years and have it on multiple devices. As someone who absolutely hates when humans read books (strange emphasis, too much emotion, incorrect pronunciation), this app has saved my reading life. All of my ebooks are pushed through this app and are near constantly playing as background noise. I've bought a couple different voices, and it's well worth it, in my opinion. You can teach the program how to pronounce names or fantasy words not in its lexicon already, which is indispensable for big sci-fi and fantasy readers. The text color, size, and font can be customized for easier reading, and the background can be altered as well. It's an incredible app and if this was around when I was in school, I'd have no problem 'reading' the required material as I got ready in the morning.

Voice stream document access solution: accessible, comprehensive, consistent and Reliable. Voice Dream it's truly the most accessible consistent, and reliable document solution. It provides universal accessibility for everyone, versatile document access from local and web locations, as well as allowing for image acquisition of electronic text through optical character recognition, or the conversion of hardcopy print or images into electronic text. I would certainly recommend voice dream reader to anyone, because I have a confidence that the developer continues to bring an enhancements that in cooperate the latest features allowing users to access and manage content from variety of local and online databases. It has truly provided Application to educational, daily living and employment settings for me and many others, I'm sure. Thank you.

Best purchases I’ve made in college. I bought this app my freshman year of college and apart from Wolfram Alpha these two apps have been the best app purchases I’ve ever made. I’m a senior now and I still use it to read textbooks, research papers and PDFs to this day. 100% would recommend! Only feedback that I have is that I would be nice to take a picture of a worksheet/pamphlet and use that as an input through an OCR algorithm that would then convert to it to a desired file format e.g. PDF and have the app read it to me. Still this is a feature that I would want and it doesn’t take away from how perfectly made the app already is. Also, the developer continues to update the app and I feel like I’ve gotten a lot more for my money. 10/10 would recommed.

Life changing app and unbelievable customer service. I bought the entire app suite my first semester of graduate school and it’s hands down the best $30 I’ve ever spent in my life. It works beautifully (once you get the hang of how to take the photos to optimize OCR). I recently got a new iPhone and was experiencing issues having my files read aloud and I emailed the support team to have my question FULLY AND ACCURATELY answered in literally 4 minutes. I cannot recommend this app enough. It’s hands down the best text to speech option out there that doesn’t cost an exorbitant amount of money. Please if you are in need of a time saving app to get through readings download this app- it may just change your life too!!

Almost. I love everything about this app except the quality of speech. I’ve tried both, Acapela-Will and NeoSpeech Hugh. These two premium voices are tantalizingly close to natural. Nevertheless, both Hugh and Will regularly blur certain phoneme combinations. And these robotic sounding errors make it difficult for this learning disabled brain to focus on the content of reading material. And I have tried tweaking both, speed and pronunciation controls to no avail. I normally use Alexa to listen to books that I convert to searchable PDFs. Alexa is far more natural sounding than either, Hugh and Will. But Alexa is difficult to manage. ‘She’ won’t read just anything. And there is no male alternative to female Alexa that will read PDFs aloud just yet. It follows, Voice Dream and Alexa would make the perfect team, if this were some how possible. It is my hope that voice patches in the Voice Dream catalog will one day sound as natural as Alexa (and Seri).

Fantastic App. Note: I’ve only been using the app for 3 days, but absolutely love it. I was a long time user of Pocket and its voice reading capabilities but at some point it was much less useful than it previously had been. I had also been looking for a PDF reader that could handle scientific/medical texts. I also have a number of email newsletters that I never seem to find time to sit and read. Voice Dream does all fantastically well. As other note, the PDF reader works very well for scientific texts. The clipboard feature is excellent for emails. Pocket integration allows for it to update my list and removes items when archived which is great except for: My one request would be a way to save Pocket articles that I highlight to a folder and not have them removed when archived in pocket. I’ve worked around this by saving a copy of interesting articles I want to highlight and review further. All of that said, $20 for the bundle seems like a lot for an app, but I find that it has already paid for itself in the amount of time gained reading documents that would have had to be read at a specific time…or not at all. Highly highly recommend.

Best reader out there.. I have been using Dream reader for a couple of years now. I think it is well worth the money fantastic application. And I have to say their support team is fantastic. Just the other night I had a problem with a PDF file not reading it correctly. Emailed support got back to me in five minutes and the gentleman fix the issue that was causing the reader problem Within 10 minutes everything was back to normal that I expect. So if you’re looking for a reader this should be your choice. I am not disabled in anyway I use it because I love it. I have it read PDF files on my drive to work so I don’t need to when I get in the office. It is a fantastic application and a fantastic support team. Thank you for reading this.

wonderful app.. I've used Voice Dream Reader for several years now on a multitude of I-devices, It works perfectly on them all. From IOS 9.3.5 through iOS 11. My criteria for any device and its use is if it can "grow" with you. Voice Dream is as basic or advanced as you want it to be. You can read or jump around, read nearly any type of word processor file or listen to nearly any audio file. They do not have to be fitted into categories, but live happily together in one group of files. No problem with ear fatigue as you can change voices, change voive pitch and speed quickly. I could go onn and on, bbut shall conclude with another plus. Though I like Voice Dream Reader in any form it takes, each new iOS revision and sometimes just modifications and streamlining results in yet one more delightful adjunct. Worth twice its price.

Good reader, but bad for studying. This App is by far the best thing that’s happened to me in my under-graduate and graduate degrees. I struggle to read and understand because of a learning disability that I have. There is only one other product out here like this that I know of, and it’s still not as good as this product and it requires a subscription each month. This is a one time purchase, and it does almost everything that I need. Between the scanner that can turn my textbook into a readable PDF, and the reader, and the various types of voices, I will give testimony of them forever. The only thing I wish it could change is to give me the ability to modify documents directly that are in my Files folder, and also give me the ability to highlight in multiple colors. STILL the best app every though. I couldn’t recommend it more.

Life-changingly fantastic. I absolutely love this app! It is far and away the best reader on the market. I work full-time, commute many hours, take care of my kids in a household, and started a second masters degree program last year. Voice Dream Reader makes graduate school possible for me. I am reading my homework while driving, walking, washing the dishes, cooking dinner, folding my laundry, brushing my teeth.... I can adjust the pronunciation for specific words or acronyms, I can adjust the reading speed And choose from voices, I can tap a small button and mark the paragraph, or highlight certain portions of text. I couldn’t do my program without this app. So many features, and the developers are impressive at their support and their constant improvements. I’ve had a couple issues, and sent an email. Not only have I received a personal response each time, from an real person who cares about the problem, but every time the problem actually got fixed or the question satisfactorily answered. Every time. I am very, very grateful for voice dream reader!

Five full-freaking-stars!. If I could, I would just sit around reading book after book, day after day. Unfortunately, the real world doesn’t work that way. Voice Dream Reader is a GODSEND for those of us that love books but don’t have the time to sit down and read them. I’m into a lot of indie authors, and while more and more are choosing narration, there will always be books that don’t make it that far. Frankly, after finding this app, I care less about whether or not books make it to audio format at all. I’m able to convert all my Kindle books into the right format to upload to Voice Dream Reader and go! Needless to say, my library is huge and VDR handles it like a pro. I thought I might be bothered by the monotone computer voice, but I find that I completely tune it out and focus on the story at hand. Now, what would I improve? More voices to purchase! “James” is my go-to most of the time, but I would love a larger variety than what is available. Also, if I try to listen to my Reading List through my Apple Watch, I can’t use any of my purchased voices at all. I’m still giving this app five stars because I’ve yet to come across something better and it’s by far one of my best app purchases ever. Keep up the good work!

Long overdue review. I purchased this app several years ago. Since I purchased it I have used it to “read” hundreds of books and articles. Most of the material I have “read” with this app is not available as a professionally narrated audio and never will be. This includes many obscure religious and medical texts and manuscripts — more than I can count. I am constantly on the go and almost never have time to sit down and read a printed or digital book. Yet, with this app I have been able to get through many thousands of pages of material that never would have been possible otherwise. I listen nearly every day while I drive, walk, jog and sometimes while I work. Although the app is not perfect (pronunciation is sometimes incorrect) it is good enough for me to understand. I appreciate that the developer has continued to improve the product. For example, in the last year I discovered I can use it to listen to podcasts and even videos that I download for offline use. I would be ungrateful not to leave a 5 star review, because without exaggerating I can say that this has changed my life. I now have a steady stream of valuable information flowing to my mind. This is information that was simply out of reach to me before — mainly due to constraints on my time. This has helped me immensely with preparing to teach classes and in my medical career.

💯 I never review apps, but... VOICE DREAM READER IS WORTH EVERY RED CENT 💯!. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ✨✨✨✨✨ ***** FIVE 5+STARS !! ***** ✨✨✨✨✨⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Voice Dream Reader provides an intelligent user-friendly environment. This is the best app I’ve ever installed on my iPhone. Period. Voice Dream Reader is unsurpassed in the way of assistive tech. The app dictates my lecture notes for me, and unlike to err is human, this app dictates completely error-free. With Voice Dream Reader, I am able to study my textbooks when I am in the car, walking, or anywhere I need to be hands-free. I just import my textbook into Voice Dream reader and it turns my textbook into an audio book. If I’ve time to follow along, The Voice Dream Reader App also allows an immersive experience; it reads the text aloud - eliminates distraction, and increases my auditory focus concurrent to visual attention. User Controls are Feature-rich and well-thought-out. We can scroll down page by page or freely, adjust the speed of the voice-over, or have each word highlighted they are spoken. It’s voice-over is so advanced, I sometimes forget it’s not an actual human speaking. Thank you, to The Voice Dream Team, as you have helped this humble scholar gain an undergraduate education. The Voice Dream Reader App is some of the best money I ever spent to that end.

100% Worth the $$ with a Few Small Bugs. I use this app frequently and I have not found a better one out there. The range of included voices is great, and I have purchased additional with no hassles. I also love the sync so that my devices are all up-to-date across the board. One quibble I have is that the pronunciation replacement can sometimes be a little hard to refine - I wish there was a guide or something that would help, and that phonetic symbols/markers worked in this app. I also have experienced some instances of whole chunks of text being skipped - I think it’s in response to an asterisk or something, but at times in a particular document, an entire paragraph consistently gets completely skipped after it appears. This isn’t every document, and I still use the app all the time. Highly recommend.

One of my most used apps. Voice Dream has been one of my most valuable and most used apps over the last year. If I am anywhere where I cannot sit and read, I use Voice Dream to read articles that I have downloaded or automatically synced through Pocket or imported from Dropbox. I use the different voices for different types of content. I use one for work documents, one for tech documents and one for news articles. It has gotten better with each update - I love this app! Update 2020: I love love love Voice Dream Reader. Seeing the recent highlight in the App Store reminded me that I need to comment again. This is such a wonderful timesaver for me and just a great tool for convenience. I work most days on my laptop and am constantly reading, learning and keeping up with new technology and products that my company develops. But I can't sit in front of a screen all day so I load up documents that I want to listen to or get a refresher on and can go for a walk while I listen. For some, listening to tech documents in audio form sounds boring but it helps me stay on top of my game professionally. But it also lets me go through my reading list from web pages I have dropped into Pocket or Instapaper. This is an app that every professional, student and anyone who likes or needs information in audio form should have. Thank you for creating this app!

A MUST have to audiobook fans on Apple Watch!. Awesome app! Certainly not quite as good as an audiobook, but since audiobooks aren’t practical on Apple Watch (even if you synced one as an MP3, there is no practical way to navigate through it unless you sync it as many smaller files), this app is a must have for audiobook fans for the watch. I had trouble with syncing to the watch at first until I figured out that it only syncs books you have placed in the “Reading List” tab on the phone app. Also, at first, I found that tapping the volume button (in the Watch app) didn’t do anything, so I thought it was a pain to have to adjust the volume by asking Siri - until I figured out rotating the Digital Crown adjusted the volume (just as in other Watch apps). Now all is well!

Valuable Time Saver. I will type up my notes and save them as a pdf file. Then transfer the file into voice dream. This application does really well with medical terminology, which I was surprised with; however, this application struggles with numbers and abbreviations. I have adapted to not using abbreviations in my notes or I will use the replace function in Microsoft Word to find and replace any abbreviations. For numbers, you are better off spelling them out. This will make any pdf into an audiobook essentially. Just rememberer, just because you hear it doesn’t mean you learned it. you will still need to actively listen to gain something from this. I will have many pages of notes compiled to make a study guide for a test, and it would take me hours to read myself, where I can use voice dream to expedite my studies, allowing me to get more done in a short time. I really enjoy the tracker so that you can actively watch the dialogue be read. I bought the package, and this is the only app that I use from it. I really wish that there was better tools such as highlighting and the ability to freely write on the document with the Apple Pencil. I say this because I have imported textbooks over to this application, and this would be helpful to me!

The best keeps improving. VoiceDream Reader has been a steadfast and reliable means for acquiring and reading books on my iOS devices for nearly 6 years. With each update has come more features and behavioral improvements without ever detracting from the core mission of the app-- to easily read electronic text. Ever since I got my Apple Watch, I've longed for a way to somehow listen to my books away from the phone, especially when I'm exercising. Now with version 4.7 this is a reality, and all at no extra cost. Mr. Chen's constant track record of delivering true value over the long hall speaks for itself. This is, and will continue to be, the only app I use to read eBooks, period. Thank you for yet another great update to an already outstanding reader.

Daily app. This is one of a handful of apps that I use in my daily life. I love to read books/articles/etc. But I don’t have the time with work and kids. This allows me to “read”-listen during my commute and other times. Works great with the app Pocket. I use it with DRM-free books all the time also, which I store in Onedrive then us the “open in other app” to bring it into VoiceDream when I want them. While it isn’t up to audiobook quality, the voice “Sharon” is pretty easy to listen to. You can customize the speed of the reading to find what you like. Most of the pronunciation is well, though you’re going to get some odd ones sometimes. It is even getting pretty decent with abbreviations. Overall a great app. I’ve been using it for years.

Thank you for caring about your customers’ feedback. I’ve been using your app for years to help me go to school. I’m low vision, so partially blind, partially sighted. Yours is the only app that really accommodates that balance with more human voices. Your feature to skip in-text citations when listening is wonderful. I always wished that your highlighting feature had more options because before sometimes my textbooks looked like a sea of green highlights. The rest of my degree is going to be indescribably easier because of the update you just made. I can now easily tell the difference between vocab words versus ideas etc.. and find things easier. Being able to control the color of the highlights may seem small, but it’s a HUGE help for people who struggle with skimming. Thank you so much!

Academics, rejoice!. I work in research, and with many professors. I have to read A LOT of other people’s papers. Like many people I work with, I get “reading fatigue,” where I might go insane if I have to sit and try to slog through five more pages and try to also take notes and then also incorporate what I read into my own writing. Enter this app, which I first bought so I could have a book read to me as I fall asleep. While it works great for that initial purpose, given the built-in timer and adjustable voice speeds, I quickly found that this app also immediately boosts me past the point of “reading fatigue” while working. Adding auditory input helps me to maintain my focus, and makes note-taking more seamless since I don’t have to stop “reading” to jot a note down. The ability to add a bookmark with a single tap make it that much easier to return to papers and scan them for the relevant parts. I tried all the free text to speech apps, and the built-in text-to-speech capabilities and found them all severely lacking. Voice Dream Reader is head and shoulders above them. It does what it says it will, does it well, and is easy to use.

Awesome. I love this app. I've been using it for years so that I can listen to books that don't have audio versions. I saw people on some reviews saying that it doesn't do more than what Siri can do, but I disagree because at least when I first bought this app Siri would only read paragraphs at a time. This is like having an audiobook for any book you can think of because it can read text files, PDFs, epubs, and so on. The user interface isn't the best in the world but it's very functional and I like how you can speed up or slow down the voice speed and enter pronunciations for various words. This comes in handy for me because I read a lot of translated books originally written in Asian languages so I can tell the app how to pronounce the characters' names. I'm giving it 4 stars because I think that the user interface could be improved. The interface isn't very intuitive.

The Best. Look No Further.. This app has changed my life. If you like Audible, this allows you to have the same "reading while getting other stuff done" functionality. I take all the articles I want to read in the Atlantic, the New Yorker and the New York Times, and feed them into VoiceDream and then get to read everything while in the shower, while walking the dog, doing chores, driving, etc. I CAN READ SO MUCH MORE NOW! The features and UX with this app are absolutely the best, and I've tried a number of programs that do text-to-speech. Buy this, take a few minutes to learn how to use it (it's easy and intuitive) and then buy one of the voices you like, and you'll be amazed!

The best app ever!. If I had had this app when I was in college, my life could’ve been so much easier! As it is, I have now and I am extremely grateful. The thing I love about this app is how easy it is to work with. If I do have problems, technical support is very willing and able to help, even if I have to ask them several stupid questions after they tried the first time. I cannot think of a single thing that is wrong with this app. I think that if the iOS voices were working properly with it, I would use them. Still, I do have other voices but I can use. Having a pronunciation dictionary in this app has made my life so much better. It is a pure joy to read any text with this app. I recommend it highly for anyone. Whether the person is a student, or just reading for fun, I would say get this app.

Amazing productivity tool. Its not whether you can read well or not. It’s whether you have the energy to stare at a page for long time. I’ve noticed for me that listening is easier than reading when I’m not in the mood and is a way to reduce the activation energy of a task that I wish to get done. It’s also useful for catching up on articles saved for later to read in pocket. (I started using pocket for this amazing feature) also had it read me a 50 page orientation guide for work and over al just love how it makes things easier. I read great, but we don’t all have the energy or patience 24 hrs a day to read everything. Plus it allows me to get through more material faster and has sold me on the whole power of text to speech! Because I saw in another review mention that you can have Siri read you things by setting up accessibility settings and then doing a swipe down on any screen. Yes this is a nice feature I also use, and used prior to finding this app. To me they have different use cases as the flow and how they are used and how well they work in a variety of different situations compared to each other is quite different. This is useful for actual work and learning and processing things. Siri accessibility feature is helpful to also have turned on but is only good if you are already physically reading the article or page and item at hand. This is helpful to share anything too and then go to it when wishing to and have it read away.

Have used since launch and still the best voice reader available. I just wanted to say thanks again for continued great work on the app. I’ve been using Voice Dream since you launched it nearly 10 or so years back. I recently purchased an iPad Pro and the UI is great and the cross-app support has really improved from earlier years. I’ve tried newer apps like Elo audio and speechify, and while their voices are more natural, they fail to meet the same level of support like Voice Dream. One of the biggest things I really like about Voice Dream is that imported PDFs retain graphics and tables which has always been an annoyance when importing technical papers into readers. A couple suggestions/requests would be to add support for: zooming in/out when in landscape-mode on the iPad and adding multi-page viewing options to aid in finding the right page, since indexing isn’t a thing upon import. To my knowledge, the only app that supports zooming in/out in iPad OS is the Apple iBooks app. And adding an auto-indexing feature that captures (guesses) what the chapters and sections are by indexing page content headlines. Such as this is JavaScript:

Chapter 1

- Index this

Body of paragraph

- Don’t index this That would really make navigating otherwise unorganized text much easier and useful. Thanks again and keep up the great work.

A great app, not necessarily $10 great. 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.

Going back to school made easy. This app has made going back to school so easier than If I had to commit all the energy needed to read every required assignment. The highlight and bookmark feature makes it efficient to go and pull that information to use as cited material later. Probably my favorite feature of the app is the ease at which content can be drawn into the app. Content can be downloaded and copied, use an URL. I would recommend this app, especially if you have a lot of content to read and have a busy schedule that doesn't always allow time to sit and read a lot of content. If I were going to improve one thing, it would be the free voices that come with the app. While they are serviceable, they sound more robotic than someone reading. The voices you can buy are much better.

Dreaming of better performance. Constantly replays the same section of a book. It jumps back several pages and gets stuck in a loop. I heard the same several pages 4 times yesterday. I was driving and couldn’t micromanage it. It looses track of your place in the book. The only way I can fin where the play head actually is is by locking my phone and from the lock screen I can see how far into the book the play head is or you can scroll through the entire book to find it. Then I have to go back into the app and scroll to there and find the playhead. There is no way that I know to find where the playhead is. So I have to do this weird workaround. I wish I could listen to a book from start to finish without it randomly skipping back several pages and replaying the same things over and over . I’m listening to a book while writing this review and it is skipping back several pages. When it works it’s a 5 star app for sure

Experimental use not working. I can’t believe how difficult this app is to use. What started as a promising experiment has been turning into frustration more and more. The file navigation is extremely confusing. Just now for example I imported a file, but there was no way back to the reader screen. After importing the same file and a few others I force quit the app. Reopening put me in the reader again, but my file was missing. Sorting by date showed me old files, sorting by date again showed me many copies of my recently imported files. After cleaning up I started reading the pdf. It was unresponsive to the two finger controls. I thought I had the control wrong so I spent 5 minutes looking for help. The best I could find was the original quick start. The controls worked perfectly there. Back in my doc the reader is too fast and there is no way to slow it down.

Great App for Writers Too. As a writer, I use this app during the editing process of my books. Listening to my stories read aloud helps me catch mistakes I missed during proof reading. I’ve had to purchase additional voices to suit my preferences though, as I didn’t like the robotic default voices that came with the app. Although the default voices were way better than those in some of the other similar apps I tried. One feature I really like is the ability to train the app to pronounce words that aren’t in the dictionary. I write stories with a lot of non-English character names, so it is always nice to be able to set the pronunciation phonetically. This app is definitely money well spent.

Excellent product for aspiring academic. I have always struggled keeping up with my reading in grad school. All of my time was devoted to just keeping up with assignments, not writing or exploring my own related interests. A prominent reason was getting bogged down in the details of texts. Listening through a first time has helped me focus on the big picture of arguments and identify arguments most important for my interests. Even though I have to go back to these sections in print, I still end up saving time and understanding materials better. Also, I appreciate the one time purchase model more than subscriptions (although I know this doesn’t support the ongoing development of the app. Why doesn’t the App Store support payed updates? I think it would be reasonable to pay a small fee for certain kinds updates and new features to give the developers an ongoing revenue stream). Any way, this app has enabled me to keep up. One feature I would like is a desktop or web based version. I have found workarounds, but a dedicated app is desirable (perhaps an upgrade I would pay for wink wink?)

You get what you pay for. Well in this case I think you get more. It reads for you, yes. But it not only reads it reads much better than any other similar free app. And I know because I tried all the free ones first and they sounded so incredibly robotic that the sentences were melting into each other and I couldn't grasp what I was reading at all. They also had bad intonations on words which also caused confusion. No this isn't a "cheap app" by measure of general app prices but when you measure the value that you get over the life of this app allowing you to read while washing dishes, driving or eating a meal, it is well worth every cent. This app has saved me hours and time is money! Not only can I multitask but I'm also reading much faster when it's the only thing I'm doing because it's scrolling for you and the added time of each thumb swipe is gone. You're now reading hands free. Also, in addition to the included voices, there's an option for premium voices and the option of simply putting it on mute and letting it scroll for you if you prefer your own voice for reading. If you want something that's upfront "cheap" or free they're out there in other apps. This, to me, is cheap when you do the longterm math. Btw I've had this for years and happened to just review now since I was already in the app store to share the link with a friend. Good luck and happy shopping

Great, but flawed, customer support doesn’t support those with disabilities. This would’ve been a 5 star review — I’ve poured over $100 dollars into this app and the voices, as well previously recommend it to others — but isn’t for the simple reason they don’t listen to users with disabilities and their needs. Before an iOS update, one could check their notes and bookmarks in a text, and still be in the same area of the bookmarks and notes you’re looking through. But after, you lose your place and have to start from the beginning. When you’re close reading a text that’s several hundred pages long, this can be very exhausting. I wrote customer service about this over 6 months ago, and followed up multiple times, each with a video demonstration of the problem and they never listened; Sandra merely said it was a design choice, and they’ll see what they could do about it. Shame on voice dream for not listening to those with actual disabilities, and instead making aesthetic decisions that make those with disabilities fall behind and struggle.

🤯 TOTAL GAME CHANGER 🤯. I don’t know what rock I’ve been living under but thankfully I finally found this app! It is a complete and total game changer! True Crime junkie here and reading through thousands of pages of court documents is not something I have the attention span to do. Even aside from that, every book I ‘read’ is an audiobook because I literally never have time to sit still. I have been using this app for the past hour and I’m still discovering new features but I think I have the basics down now! Works flawlessly and seamlessly. The voices sound so natural. I see that their support team is very active with responses to negative reviews… which are mostly user error but they are very gracious in their responses! And MOST importantly, willing to help! I am absolutely thrilled and I am looking forward to staying up all night ‘reading’ this 1267 page document! ♥️ ETA: I have seen reviews about the pronunciation feature not working… I’ve already used it four times and have had zero issues!

Best App in the Universe. So, if there is ever a version update and an app is temporarily buggy than have a little mercy. Geez! I see some critical reviews as if users are complaining that their coffee needs to be microwave. This app allowed me to go through over 100 books this year so far. With scanning textbooks for post Masters education and an OCR program I am able to hear any book in my house as an audiobook. Absolutely love this app. When my phone was dropped and destroyed, my first thought was not losing my way of contacting people, but losing my time with Voice Dream. Thanks developers for your genius. Sorry there are cry babies who think they could do better. They probably failed LOGO in computer science class in the 80s and are still bitter.

Some quirks but overall very helpful. I use the app to listen to stories while working. For the most part it is great. I listened to several voices before selecting one that I felt sounded natural. However, the app has some quirks that some days annoy me. It pronounces girl correctly, but Supergirl gets pronounced as Superjurl. The word “leans” as in “She leans forward to see the screen better” is pronounced like Leann’s—the possessive of Leann. It struggles with contractions. The character J’onn J’onzz should be pronounced like Jon Jones with French accent. The app says “J-1 J-1’s”—admittedly a tough translation from written to audio, there was also a character with the name Gen short for Genevieve and the app pronounced it as General which was jarring since the character was a child. I know someone who loads their stories to a Word document and substitutes phonetically spelled versions of these quirky words then uploads to the app so it will read the words correctly. I’m just not that picky I guess.

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Grr 😖. Love this app but I just spent a fortune on a uni text book, then more to convert and unlock the thing to PDF and because there’s no contents when I import it, this app becomes useless because it will only read from the beginning of the book and not the page/chapter I need. Whhhyyyy 😫

Doesn’t work well for complicated texts. Voices are okay and the app is much simpler to use compared to similar apps, however unfortunately this text to voice app doesn’t work for my situation. I can image it works well for simple books and text but I wouldn’t recommend it for complicated texts. The app has difficulty following multi column text formatting on a page (the text you see in magazines and student textbooks). What ends up happening is it reads everything left to right and combines sentences from the two different columns making for a jumble of words. Using photo to text even when within a single column, it sometimes jumbles words from near areas on the page which interrupts the flow. Another area which needs improvement is the Cropping tool. Cropping is not intuitive as the tool can only handle a single column on each page and each corner angle has to be moved to move a square line. Would be nice to be able to move a straight line in one action. The addition of advanced cropping would be welcomed, so as cropping can isolate text within columns or around square or unique shapes and diagrams. Hope these issues get addressed in the future.

Voice Dream Reader. Sorry guys, but 5 stars just ain't enough for this incredible app and it's recent companion, Writer. I bought Dream Reader about two years ago because I love to be read to sleep as well. But it quickly morphed into the most important app in my Apple Orchard. And when it was joined by Writer my writing life simply grew wings and shows no sign of slowing down. Reader and Writer are the first apps on my home page. Ivona's Joey is my best mate. He reads my proofs and everything else I throw at him, all without complaint or comment. He's backed up by Heather and Salli and I would be lost without them. I could never work like this with live people. The app is reliable and well tended by its team. I just wish I could find it for Mac though. I am delighted to recommend Voice Dream Reader to anyone who loves to be read to by amazing readers. Or who just likes to read. But if you write and need a little help with editing and proof reading, you can't go past the team of Dream Reader and it's companion, Writer. They will pick up everything you missed and you will never be embarrassed by a blooper again. Good work Voice Dream Team and thank you. Amber.

Skip citations!!!. OMG where is the 6th Star!!

App does not like google documents. Be careful. It seems like an cheaper version but also does not want to download documents straight away. Takes over a day or two to download them. When you have downloaded them the voice reader does not actually read documents. The help window tells you to reinstall but the app still does not read.

Revolutionalises Reading. This app has given me so much choice with how I read. As a vision impaired iPhone user, having access to books in digital format has always been a work in progress. This app has made accessing, organising and reading the books I do have, (in both text and audio formats,) much easier and more enjoyable. It connects with all the services I use and has many features I have never seen in other apps before. This is especially true for VoiceOver users. It's fully accessible and has many features for low vision and totally blind readers alike, but is useful for anyone who wants an easy to use app for reading anything you can think of. A must download.

4.988 stars (and i really wanted to round up to 5). i am an easily distracted research student and this program greatly assists me to stay focused when reading. recommend ++ voice dream reader is almost a five star product. a minor wish/request is for a journal PDF schema to correctly read column based text layouts and also an option to ignore the contents of numerical/statistical tables. thesis table of contents is also abit quirky. i haven’t found a reader anywhere that does all that and it would be really helpful for the scientific community if some or all of these features could be added PS i really like this product keep up the good work

This is a feature full text to speech app!. I have been using this app for years and I love it! I can pull readings from my Google drive, the web, apps like Instapaper and even snap a picture to listen to text from a handout. The only thing I am missing at the moment is the ability to buy the newer HD voices. Years ago I bought some premium voices which have been great but now would like to buy some upgrades. In any case this is still the best text to speech app I have used. It is great value!

Hmmmm. I was interested till I saw the yearly price with just a 3-day trial no thank you I feel over $100 is a bit much for someone like me who is unsure how they will use it to begin with

No better than the free apps. Very disappointed given this is an expensive app. I got this to read my university texts while driving. It doesn’t pause between headings and the paragraph that follows. It doesn’t pause in the right places which makes it hard to comprehend. The built in IOS option works just as well. Would like a refund l.

Wrong voice. I’ve just bought this and tried to download a specific acapela voice (Lisa). It didn’t give me any indication of which voice I was downloading, so I assumed it would download Lisa, which I’d just pressed. I ended up with Peter, which I can’t stand.

Accessibility. This program gives nee access to so many books that would otherwise be inaccessible to me for reasons of vision and distance from libraries. The voices are good.

Don’t buy. This app is not compatible with most epub ebooks. And there is no way for you to contact them apart from writing a review here. A complete waste of money.

MacBook??. I love this app!!! The only downfall is it doesn’t work on my MacBook Why haven’t you designed it to be compatible with MacBooks :-(

Far from being natural. Wish there was an option to test the app before paying too much for something that is not in line with your needs.

Wasting of time. I uploaded many files and started to study but the files became unresponsive and not opening

Remarkable app. This app is worth every cent: it requires one off purchases, allows purchasing IVONA voices, and it's much cheaper than subscription services In spite of the low-cost, the user interface is the best that I've seen. It has no lag, because the Voice production is done on the phone rather than downloaded from a remote MP3 file. Quite incredibly, I have also yet to see an error from converting articles into plain text.

VoiceDream Reader Terrific App I rely on and use all the time. Focus does not need to be in the VoiceDream Reader app for it to read as continually as you may want. As I've written below, I feel only more certain that the VoiceDream Reader developers are committed to delivering their best, always welcoming feedback from anyone, responding with clarity and kindness. VoiceDream Reader is so flexible with reading almost anything I need it to read. High quality voice engines are inexpensively available from within the app. VoiceDream Reader allows easy handling of documents from most any other IOS app via an "open in VoiceDream Reader" option accessed through the "Share" button. So easy to use, enjoyable to listen to, I highly recommend this fine app! Fully Five Stars!

Outstanding, well designed application.. I have been a heavy user of digital document & book ‘Text to Speech’ on three platforms for many years. This application is, hands down, the king of the mountain on Apples OIS devices. I noticed a previous negative review about unnatural sounding voices. This is an entirely unfair criticism for the following reason: Yes, if you only use one of the free Apple voices, they will sound robotic & unnatural. However; This fine developer has given uses abundant choices of the very best natural voices on the market that can be purchased from within this beautiful software. For example; purchase the inexpensive voice from ‘IVONA’ called ‘Amy’ and you will be impressed indeed! Also notice that if you use a voice like ‘Amy’, the developer of ‘Voice Dream’ has given us the options of sentence and paragraph pause time adjustment. The last comment I would make; is simply a heart felt thanks for the thoughtful hard work, the coder of this app has invested in Voice Dream! I love this software!!

Unable, still, to extract newer BZip2 compression-method files from zip archives. Unfortunately, still, files compressed using the more efficient BZip2 compression method available in newer zip utilities such as InfoZip: e.g.: "zip -9Zb " can't be extracted. No error is generated; one ends up simply with a zero-length book! I would have expected a fix should have been _very_ simple to implement. 😒😞☹️

Just ok - could be better. This works ‘ok’ but the app developers have really put out something pretty rough and ready with some annoying quirks. They should be easy to fix these days but clearly the app developers can’t be bothered. Like: it recognises full stops but not line breaks so headlines or titles run into the opening line. Sometimes it recognises ‘&’ as ‘and’ and sometimes it says ‘ampersand’ which is really distracting. It also doesn’t recognise acronyms - even common ones - and attempts to pronounce them like words. Finally, common abbreviations are not recognised in context so ‘St.’ is always pronounced as ‘Saint’, never ‘Street’. These are little annoying things that really could be fixed easily if the app developers took pride in their product.

Love this App still. Voice Dream reader is a wonderful, easy to use text to speech App. I use it everyday to read multiple types of websites and documents. I read blogs, news sites, fan fiction all very easily up loaded to Dream Voice in a single click. I have been using the App for a several months with great success. When I first started using it I had a question for the developers, they answered it promptly and thoroughly. I think I've tried every App on the market but I won't be trialling any more. Thank you Dream Voice.

Unable to import file on iPad Pro. Constantly crashing when trying to import from file pdf expert

The app is good but the iCloud update is not working. It’s very obvious that a very well designed machine is reading something for you. That’s not a problem to me, though. The only frustration for me is the dysfunctional iCloud syncing system.

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Far from a natural voice. I’m sorry to say but this is nothing like a natural voice that this purports. It sounds very computerized and does not flow. I hope I just get used to it but the price tag does not justify what this app does. I feel like I wasted a lot of money based on untrue reviews. No wonder the app doesn’t even allow you to try it before you buy because we wouldn’t buy it after trying

Absolutely Love It. After using this app over the last couple months I can hands down say it might just be the best money I’ve spent. I listen to web novels on this app and it’s easily the most streamlined and easy to use platform I’ve found 5 star:)

Great support for a great product. I’ve owned this app for years and had Ivona’s Brian voice read me dozens of books on my commute. Fantastic app. When I recently came across a small bug and emailed support they responded within a day and patiently worked with me to resolve it. Give these folks your money - this app rocks.

Great ui needs work. Great can read lots of files. Does crash from time to time specially on the watch. Exporting to watch is confusing. Ui needs to be simplified for outcomes

Too Busy to Read. This program is just what I have always needed. A choice of voices and easy to switch between listening and reading. Well done.

App changed from perpetual licensing to annual subscription. No thanks.. I should have bought it a year back. My mistake.

Not suitable for iBooks.. I bought this to read out my books purchased in iBooks and it cannot find them. Works with any other text I have on my phone but not iBooks. Anyone know how to rectify this?

The cream of the crop. I've been a big user of TTS for many years, in fact, I do all my reading this way now. I've sampled virtually all the other TTS programs, and voicedream is by far the best. The quality of the voices has nothing to do with TTS developers. These voice fonts are made by third party developers, and are pretty much the same across all TTS programs. I find the better voices almost deadset realistic anyway. 2 suggestions: 1. Make the folders capable of holding other folders to make a collapsable tree. No one has done this yet. 2. Have the option of the 'play head' resetting to the beginning of an article on completion, as there are many times I want to hear an article more than once... ie when studying. These are minor issues, not knocking voicedream off the top perch.

Poor. Really disappointed by the quality of the supplied voice packs. I feel the promo video is misleading.

Suggestions for future updates. I love almost everything about this app! Things I would love to see in future updates: - customisable background colour (so it can be changed from dark blue) - the ability to upload a cover photo for each document, so I can recognise documents at a glance. Thank you for creating this app, it has helped me with my studies so much!

Love this app.. I have used this app for about the last 6 years just about everyday and it’s fantastic. Not only is it my most used app but I have to give credit to the developer\s. You can tell they have given so much of their time and effort into developing something that is so useful to people. If there are any bugs in any of the updates or if I have had any questions I usually send them an email and they always respond and always include fixes in the updates and keep it up to date, which I really appreciate. I’m so excited about the Apple Watch app as I wear mine everyday and will love to see it working there. This is my second review in the last 6 years but I really had to acknowledge the on going effort of the developer/s for all of their hard work. AAAAA+

Awesome general purpose app. This is one of the best apps I have experienced out of the 60 or so I have. It is professional, intuitive and the voices are of very high quality. The ability to read a wide variety of formats is terrific (particularly pdf and other ebook formats) as is the ability to tap Dropbox files, web sites or just about anything. The highlight while read with options for colouring the page are very practical, very neat. The folder setup, bookmarking and reading speed are fantastic. My one huge desire is for this app to link to Evernote! Now that would be TERRIFIC!

Request for Rich Text Highlighting Feature. I have been a loyal user of Voice Dream for over seven years now, and while I appreciate its many features, there is one issue that I would like to address. Currently, the app only allows for highlighting when reading an epub file using their Plain Text format. While this may work for some books, it can be problematic for others, especially those with tables, bold text, formatted computer codes, and many other formatting styles. This can cause the Plain Text format to ruin the overall structure of the epub file. I have noticed that other epub readers allow for highlighting in the original Rich Text format, which preserves the book's formatting style. I would love to see Voice Dream implement this feature as well, so that I can highlight my favorite books without worrying about losing their unique formatting. Overall, I am a big fan of Voice Dream and appreciate all of its helpful features. I simply urge the developers to consider adding this one feature to make the app even more user-friendly and versatile. Thank you.

Appreciation from a frequent user. I have been a user of Voice Dream for many years. So many that I cannot recall when I first downloaded this app. I use it daily to read newspaper articles as well as lengthy scholarly articles. I am also using it as a language learning tool, Japanese and German. In all these tasks Voice Dream has never failed me. I must also add that I am almost a computer illiterate person and an elderly one at that. If I can find my way around Voice Dream. If I can do that then anyone can do that too. I have no hesitation in recommending this app to one and all.

PDF Edit NEEDED. There should be a PDF edit. Getting frustrated with always having to hand tap when it reads the footnotes. Or please make it so people can choice what sort of reading style they want. Eg advance (footnotes not read), general (all read) etc

It’s was fantastic - now I can’t send a PDF to it from iBooks. This is a great application however following the latest upgrade, I have been unable to send PDFs from iBooks to the app. VERY VERY FRUSTRATING

Eye problems. I bought this app to save myself having to read written material. It works brilliantly for news items, web pages etc, but does not work well with ebooks. It repeatedly reads the same page, and won’t read continuously. I’ve tried several configurations, but I think the format may not be suitable for the app to cope with. Still, thanks for all your hard work in developing it.

This isn’t free but appears to be listed as such. Why is listed as free but with in app purchases? This is only a free 3 day trial then converts to subscription… Please explain..

One time purchase for HQ voices!. Unlike other ripoffs of charging yearly/monthly, VoiceDream has exact same quality voices with one time purchase. This is how genuine business should be. Ultimately education tool.

Expected so much more for the price. For this amount of money, I just thought that the basics of this app would be well refined, unfortunately this is not the case. Navigating the text is extremely clunky... it takes an excessive amount of time to select text to either highlight or copy due to the clunkiness of the cursor. The cursor often won’t move at all no matter how much you attempt to move it and will almost always freeze before you’ve finished dragging it the the place you want. I’ve also already had to delete one of my books and reload it, find where I was up to from scratch due the app freezing every time I open it. PDF support is clearly not very well optimised. These are just the basics of how an app reading any sort of document should manage to function, this isn’t even touching on the text to speech aspect of the app. Extremely poor for this amount of money.

Please add gujarti voices. It would be really nice if you can add gujarti voices to the voicedream reader

Amazing. Best of the best.

Very buggy on iPhone 14 Pro…. On the iPhone, 14 pro, the voices sound richer, the text feels easier on the eye… But all this is undone by bugginess. For example, when voicing a PDF, the phone’s system often voice takes over. In other words, the voice that I might choose, for example, Moira, or Daniel, becomes inactive while the terrible “accessibility“ voice reads out the text. When I tried to fix this, voice dream simply refused to read the PDF. Nothing I could do, no button I could press. I dreaded the prospect of contacting tech support. (As we all know, tech support is often time-consuming with the support people speaking poor and heavily accented English. Businesses get away with it because most people do not want to be accused of “racism“.) _____ Whether the fault is with voice dream, or with Apple’s system, I don’t know. But yesterday I was in a situation in which I was totally locked out of my phone. It had something to do with the voice/accessibility feature. Trying to key in my passcode using the on screen keys just caused the phone to call out key numbers. I happened to be near my service provider’s store, so I rushed there in a panic, and my panic turned into even more panic, when even the staff were unable to fix the problem. Eventually they did, but told me not to go anywhere near “Accessibility“.

A long way to go.. I was looking forward to using this app and I really wanted this to work. With one of the more expensive apps I’ve purchased, this only came with 1 premium voice that did not transfer across devices. The app read each letter rather than words. I ended up with with an app spelling words rather than reading words. I’ve tried but have since stopped using Dream Reader.

Love it!. I love this app and use it a lot to read my research articles. I’ve had for years now. However since the last update the pronunciation of many words is incorrect and changing it on settings isn’t fixing it. Besides there are too many words to enter manually and try to devise the appropriate pronunciation. I hope you guys can fix it!

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Changed from five star to one star. I do manual app updates, and was alarmed to see that apparently we now need to subscribe to use this app. I paid for his app several years ago, and purchased premium voices. Are you telling me that I now have to pay 100 dollars a year to use an app that I already bought? I was already alarmed when writer and scan split off, and I see that was not without reason. Sell out. At least do us the courtesy of something good like drafts, which left people with daft 4 (?) if they wanted to stay with that paid app, or get the separate new and updating subscription app if they preferred. I’m disgusted. If I’m wrong about this works, I’d be delighted to received a response to the contrary.

Voice sounds choppy. Voices aren’t great.

Issue fixed. I hurt my neck a while ago and couldn't look down to read a book anymore so I got this to read my ebooks out loud for me. It took a bit of getting used to and buying a few voice packs, but I eventually found one that works (Ivona’s Amy mainly). For the last year this has been a solid 10 star app, I use it every single day and it has been money more than well spent.

10/10. This app is absolutely amazing. The voices sound great, it easy to navigate between chapters, and all around intuitive to use. Love that it’s a one time purchase instead of a subscription. It is really helpful for my ADHD. Thank you.

Fantastic app. I've been using Voice Dream for several years now and absolutely love it. I use it daily. I love how it connects with Pocket. Every day I add a dozen or more articles from the web to Pocket - and then listen to them using the app. It's brilliant! I've tried many text-to-speech apps and this is easily the best I know of. I share the opinion of the Forbes reviewer in calling it one of the best finds of my educational career.

won’t let me do anything unless I purchase a subscription. I can’t find a way out of the modal window that asks me to subscribe to keep using the app.

Doesn’t work well with scanned media. Tris to use this to read textbook material but the app didn’t read the material clearly. Even when the converted text was written clearly, the voice didn’t read the words correctly. Result: completely unintelligible, as in 2 mistakes per sentence such that you can’t understand the basic meaning. E.g. omits the first word of a sentence; reads the number 1 as “L”.

Read faster. I’ve been using Voice Dream Reader for several years now and I love it. It helps me read faster. I especially love the new RSVP mode which boosts my reading retention. I just wish the developers would add new premium voices more often. Otherwise it’s perfect!

Amazing. This app is amazing. As someone who purchased an expensive text to speech software after my first degree, this is life changing. Being able to take my alternative format books with me and hear them regardless of where I am will be life changing for me as a student and a future professional. This app was also very reasonably priced. I love the interface it’s very easy to use and familiarize yourself with. PDFs load instantly really good app to have

False Advertising. App promotes itself as free with in-app purchases to unlock bonus features. Instead, you are required to purchase a monthly/annual subscription to use the software. It also states in the app notes that you will receive one FREE high quality voice to use—it neglects to tell you must first purchase a subscription to obtain this free voice, meaning it’s not free at all. I would prefer the option to try the app for free, and then purchase it (as the notes indicate). I absolutely loathe subscription services. I prefer to pay a one-time fee, with additional purchases being for add-on content, such as additional voices, and for the occasional major overhaul.

Broken. The app in it’s current state will not allow you access the voice samples for the premium voices. And the email support function isn’t working either. You still have access to the default ios voices for what it’s worth

Pricey App, but no additional value. I downloaded this app based on the Apple recommendation. It uses several Apple voices to read books and notes. I don’t find any benefit of using it instead of Apple’s built-in accessibility feature, the Spoken Content. I don’t understand why they charge about CAD100 towards annual subscription, when the similar functionality is available for free.

Let people try then subscribe!. I recommend the app developer to allow people to try this app before subscribing. How do I know how well it works with books, journals, etc. I cannot rely on a bunch of comments. I have to see it hit myself. If you are sure about the quality of your app let people try it for as Ilya’s at least three days. I cannot purchase something and having difficulty to unsubscribe. Some apps are like that. Sorry but this is the reality.

Good idea so far so good they took it works. And you’ll get more stars exclamation

To download the app. I downloaded this app for my iPad for college but that app can download on my iPhone but won’t download on my iPad

Use it all the time. I use this app mostly in the car or on the way to work while I’m walking. I get it to read my newsletters, books, random links or emails that I get. The turning point for me was when I figured out how to use the send from browser feature. On the browser click share (box with an arrow) and then select voice dream from the list. If not there you have to click more to add it. Honestly there should be a video for this. I also used it to read my emails, but there I have select the whole text and copy it in. Some newsletters have the view as HTML in a browser button but the ones that don’t, it makes it hard. I wish there was a feature similar to Things app, where I just forward to an email and pops up in the app. Anyways, thanks for the app and the hard work.

Not worth the money. I bought the app and paid almost $100 dollars for it. I did not like any of the voices in them and even bought a new voice for $8. Still not satisfied with the app and its interface, I mailed the customer service within 20 MINUTES! of purchase that I did not need this and would like at least a partial refund. It’s been 6 days now and no response. They should atleast provide a 1 day free trail or even a monthly subscription instead of just ripping us off. So disappointed with the experience.

Love of My Life. This app is amazing. The ability to take anything I want to read and with a few clicks have it ready for listening has massively increased my reading, thinking, and learning. My only requests are that you: (1) work on the app’s ability to recognize footnotes and skip them at the bottom of the page; and (2), allow it to recognize chapter and section titles, inserting a brief pause between them and the first sentence. Thank you for your work on this amazing app.

can’t even use this without a subscription. no free version, can’t even access the app without subscribing

No CarPlay support. Good voices but lacks CarPlay.

I don’t know what’s happened. I have been using this app for at least eight years. It is my go to reading app and I recommend it to everybody I know if they don’t already use it. Over the past six months, I’ve been having progressively more and more issues with it. it lags when I open books, random books in my collection will show as being unavailable until I restart the app, at which point they will be fine and others will show as unavailable. I just deleted it off my phone, because I am trying to read a book, and every time I select a chapter, the app crashes. I have a modern iPhone, an updated app, and updated operating system. I have no idea what changed or why this has been so bad, or if it’s a me issue rather than an app issue. Regardless, I no longer can use this without getting really frustrated, and I can’t comfortably recommend it to people anymore. I sincerely hope that the app returns to the high standard it used to have. for now, I will be switching away and hope to one day find something that compares to the voicedream reader that used to be excellent.

A Must Have.. I love to read, but eyes gets sore with all the screens blasting, this app allow me to rest eyes while getting all readings done! The app developers continue improving, very intuitive and easy to use. Listen to your books anywhere.

Book share book download broken. Now fixed. Thanks!

Pay to use app 👎. There’s not even an option to use without paying 80$! Ya I’ll just read myself thank you very much

Awesome application!. I enjoy using it! I use it for multiple things!

Excellente application. Je suis un utilisateur non-voyant et j’utilise cette application depuis une dizaine d’années maintenant. C’est pratique pour moi quand je veux lire des livres que ce soit des documents PDF Word ou des livres audio merci au développeur d’avoir fait en sorte que cette application soit accessible pour les personnes Avec un handicap

No. I don't have enough money to pay for subscription and it won't let me cancel. Anyone help?

AND a sleep timer!!?. Voice Dream is an excellent app. Over time, I hope that the voices can be improved even more, but even as they stand now it’s not bad. “James” sounds the best to my ear, it’s the best computer voice I’ve ever heard, actually. Five stars.

Great way to read.. Lots of realistic voices

My most used app. It has come leaps and bounds. I really only have one suggestion. When you highlight on iOS the little pin head controls are so small they are hard to get ahold of especially in landscape.

Le meilleurs apps pour lecture audio et de loin. Un MUST.. De l’argent bien investie.

Love it. Am using this on my iPhone and iPad to listen to Harry Potter Fanfiction. Other stories will come too. Thankyou

Down to 1 star. Was a top five app for me but after some updates it has become unstable. Now when I import files the app freezes so bad I have to reinstall it - losing all docs, voices, pronunciation settings. It has now happened three times. I submitted a help ticket that never got a response.

No free option. They don’t even have a limited option for those who can’t afford $80 a year for a subscription. You either pay or don’t use the app which is ridiculous. Most apps can still be used for free if you can’t afford a subscription you are just limited to what you can do but this app doesn’t give you any options for free.

So bad. I wish I can give this 0 stars, because you have to pay, 99 DOLLARS A YEAR, It doesn’t even give you a monthly option, wow, just ridiculously stupid this is.

Voice Dream Reader. More voices and choices to have longer breaks at sentences etc. I get through both my leisure and my professional reading so much faster and with greater comprehension with Voice Dream

Terrible Pruchasing. When buying this app on the iPhone. The displayed cost on the apps opening screen says 79.99$ yearly! I then added my password thinking I'd be given the option to buy just a one month subscription. It never does. This app automatically charges you a 99.99$ subscription for a yearly basis for the premium account. Apple even seemed to think this is misleading, the price displayed and not even allowing the customer to choose the monthly basis purchase?

Always Freezes. Voices are OK. Cursor freezes. Page Freezes. Takes a very long time to download books. Wouldn’t buy again. Thinking of paying a monthly subscription for another one. Would definitely not pay monthly for this one if that was the asking price.

bad outdated app. can’t upload my epubs from Books app that I already own so this app is useless to me . I demand a refund bought it today want money refunded today.

Excellent app and so handy for those who struggle to read. I’ve used this app for years now- to listen to books and textbooks while I’m driving or while I make notes on what I’m learning and it helps me so much. I struggle to focus when reading a textbook but I take a pic with this app, have it read to me while I read along and it keeps me learning without getting off track. It also helps my son who has dyslexia to keep up with his schoolwork even when it’s tough to read. Thanks for designing such an awesome app and continuing to update it and make it great!

Great app, one complaint. Great app, we’ll designed, intuitive etc. however the scanning/reading feature doesn’t work great for books, I’m assuming because the page is curved. As a result it messes up the order of the sentences. Other than that it’s a much better alternative to speechify. Lots of features for a reasonable price.

High hopes. I had high hopes when making this purchase. The app allows for various voices; which is nice, and allows for word correction, however, I’ve corrected numerous words and they do not seem to take affect. Words like securities, singularities, anything that ends with “ities”, the voice reads it as “example” and no matter how many ways you add the pronunciation of it, it always reads securi-for-example. This is why my rating is 3/5. When this is fixed I’ll revisit this review.

Overpriced. $99 a year or $7 a month. No thanks.

Needs updating and improvement. The reader is very robotic and it jumps all over the page. They need to update it so it reads smoother and sounds less robotic. They do that and I’ll change my rating to 5 stars.

choppy for the most part. It does its job, but the way it is advertised makes you think it should be much better than that. The voices are just too choppy, robotic and lifeless to listen to. Definitely not suitable for narrative text.

Best reading app for IOS, second place is of academic interest. It just works. The best thing that can be said about any app which exists to give access to information is that it works and you can forget it. That applies here, you can just forget that this app is there and read your book/article/text/whatever. It is one of the main reasons I use the phone.

Voice over. The voice over is choppy, too fast and isnt easy to follow. It doesnt pick up certain text from taking a picture so the words are scrambled. Dont waste your money

Subscription was inevitable. All the apps we used for our students have gone subscription based. Special needs programs don’t have the ability to pay for a yearly fee per student vs onetime fee per student. Disappointing as this app is no longer accessible due to cost.

Reads letter by letter. Downloaded this hoping to read my pdf but it reads it letter by letter. Not happy with it. May I get a refund?

My Thoughts. After using it for a while I found the voices sounding very digital sounding. Along the line of Prof. Hawking sounding. That makes me wonder why they can’t have it flowing with correct pronunciation. I found 2 other apps that flow as if there sitting here reading to me. A huge difference. Another fact is it doesn’t do web pages!

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It is a good program - worth the price.. I like the program and it is useful to me. The price is more than what I usually pay for an app so I provide this advice for people who are on the fence about it. If you like audiobook and is an audio type learner, then it is well worth the money - go for it. It is great for people who love audio reading of text. If you are not a fan of audiobooks and you have not used audio programs to review documents, I suggest you borrow an audiobook from the library first and see if you like listening to text.

So much more than a book reader. This is a great application for reading books. I especially appreciate the flexibility and ease of use for making adjustments two speed and play back. It is much simpler to use than other readers I have downloaded. However, I have been pleasantly surprised by how applicable this is for reading other formats including PDF, word documents, webpages, and even listening to old MP3 files for lectures that I have on my one drive account. Incredibly powerful an incredibly useful. Thank you for all your hard work in developing this application.

A great app. I have a lot of good things I could say about this app but it’ll be easier to bring the problems to light in hopes it will finally get fixed because it’s been an issue for years. 1. There’s some combination of screen taps that make it so it only 5 lines of text show and it’s annoying to undo. It happens to me pretty often because 2. intermittently the app will stop playing if you have your screen off or on something else. the problem goes on for a few days then goes away for a bit. but that means you need your phone constantly on that screen which risks butt-texts, limits multi tasking, and drains battery

They never bugged me for a review, which is why they’re getting one 👍. This app is a solid improvement to my reading workflow. It helps me stay focused to read long documents and allows me to slowly increase my rate of comprehension. Or just turn a great article into a miniature podcast. The price is steep for an app, but you will easily get what you pay for. And to top it off, I have never once had a pop up asking me for a review. I work as a software developer and know the pressure to get reviews is real and constant, I appreciate them choosing to value the users who have invested in them rather than annoying them. Keep doing you 👍

Magnificent… For the most part. I love this app, and it is a great utility for reading things to me that I otherwise cannot see. However, there is one issue that I would really like either fixed or explain in better detail to me. Apparently, there is an option to move books into folders. If you click edit, select all the titles you wish to add to a folder, then click the add to folder button, then choose the folder, there is no folder created in the view, list or grid. So where is this folder being created at, if at all? I would like to sort my books more effectively, but these folders will not show up

Perfect for med students. RE: June 2018 update: Wow. The new update is amazing. I’ve been using this app for over two years and it is clear to me that the developers have natural love for reading just as I and other users do. Each update is a natural extension of my private wishlist for this app. Many thanks for making reading so much more awesome. The PDF editing and exporting feature is so useful I am in Iove with it. I'm an MD-PhD student and this app is invaluable in learning medicine. You can listen and read along on the screen which reinforces memorization. Fantastic. I hope for a MacOS version one day.

Love Voice Dream. My reading list is really long. There isn’t enough time in the day plus when my eyes are bothering me this app is perfect for me. I listen to ePub and pdf books on my commute from work, while cooking or other chores that need done. It’s not perfect but some of my documents are not either. I purchased Voice Dream many years ago and they have continued to improve this app. I love the Reading list function they added. I also made a Siri shortcut so that makes it even easier for me. I found a voice that works me and I have gotten used to her voice and it’s like an old friend is reading to me. I really love this app.

Best App in the Universe. So, if there is ever a version update and an app is temporarily buggy than have a little mercy. Geez! I see some critical reviews as if users are complaining that their coffee needs to be microwave. This app allowed me to go through over 100 books this year so far. With scanning textbooks for post Masters education and an OCR program I am able to hear any book in my house as an audiobook. Absolutely love this app. When my phone was dropped and destroyed, my first thought was not losing my way of contacting people, but losing my time with Voice Dream. Thanks developers for your genius. Sorry there are cry babies who think they could do better. They probably failed LOGO in computer science class in the 80s and are still bitter.

Disappointing!. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but given the descriptions, more that this could deliver. After I bought this, I straightaway converted an ebook to ePub format, placed it on Dropbox and imported it to this app. All that went well and was relatively easy to accomplish. I hit play and, while not expecting “Audible”, I did think I’d get a reasonable robot rendering of the book I could follow. That was not the case. This may have the potential, but it’s not ready yet, and is too expensive for this level of failure. The syllables seem to come out at varying speeds so that some are so fast they sound dropped, which makes matters a lot more difficult than they need to be. Adobe sounds better to me. Or Dragon, though that’s ridiculously expensive. I hope this improves and I become sorry and embarrassed I ever wrote this, but for now, I’m quite comfortable with my criticism.

My most used app. It’s amazing how much time we have on the road, waiting for people, doing chores etc. By listening to Voice Dream during these fragmented sessions, I managed to finish many books that I were almost certainly not able to finish reading on my own. I probably spend on average 1.5-2 hours on this app. Most of the time, listening to books is probably a better use of time than listening to podcasts or music. Developers’ quick response and fixes after iOS 11 was released has been amazing. Kudos to them for making such a great app.

Invaluable App. In an increasingly digital world, access is imperative to equidible participation in today's society. As a development professional, VoiceDream Reader enables me to further my career professionally and enjoy reading personally. I use the Bookshare access feature on a daily basis and appreciate how customizable the app experience is. Accessibility for VoiceOver users has always been a priority, and I hope this will remain the case. The app developer has always listened and been responsive to user feedback. Thank you for an app I consider to be invaluable.

Great App. Have relied on this app for many years. It offers many advanced features with the ability to manage multiple document types, easily import/export or edit, numerous voices easily tailored in general or document specific, while offering a well designed user interface that is intuitive and easily mastered. There are so many apps that I regreted purchasing but this is not one of them. It has continued to be supported, improved, and updated timely by the developer. Thank you so much for your integrity and your quality product.

Career saver. Hello my name is Jeremy, if you struggle to read quickly or to consume a lot of content like I do this app is a must have! I’m studying to be a pastor, as I’m going through seminary there are hundreds of pages I need to cover. With my dyslexia, and most likely ADHD! Not only is it extremely hard for me to cover much content in one setting, let alone stay focused on what I am reading. Voice dream, has allowed me to increase what I can read in one sitting by 6 to 7 times! Instead of 5-10 pages, I’m covering 35-70 pages as I read along with the app. One HUGE Thank you to the developers!

Great app; some irritation points. So I use voice dream reader nearly daily for reading associated with my PhD program, but there are at least two significant irritations. 1. The highlighting system is atrocious. Sometimes you have to attempt to highlight more than once because it will not select all the way to the end of a sentence. Surely it would not take much to add some intelligence to this so that it knows to look for periods and spaces when selecting as separators? Kindle and Logos do this so much better. 2. No automatic sync with Dropbox or Google drive. You can add files from these services, but they will not sync back unless you export them one by one back into the cloud with your highlights. These two items alone continually waste hours of my time given the volume of reading I do. If it were not offset by being able to read at 700wpm, I’d probably look elsewhere. Nevertheless, given how there is little else out there to solve this problem, I appreciate this app immensely. I’d just love to see a couple of the above improvements happen sooner than later.

The Best. Look No Further.. This app has changed my life. If you like Audible, this allows you to have the same "reading while getting other stuff done" functionality. I take all the articles I want to read in the Atlantic, the New Yorker and the New York Times, and feed them into VoiceDream and then get to read everything while in the shower, while walking the dog, doing chores, driving, etc. I CAN READ SO MUCH MORE NOW! The features and UX with this app are absolutely the best, and I've tried a number of programs that do text-to-speech. Buy this, take a few minutes to learn how to use it (it's easy and intuitive) and then buy one of the voices you like, and you'll be amazed!

Best text-to-speech app,. The are several reasons. First, it does not randomly change voices due to various characters. Many medical texts contain symbols similar to some eastern European or Asian languages, and the standard speech will change from English to a voice with an accent that is very difficult to understand. This app prevents that. Another reason this is my favorite text-to-speech app is because the articles and rates can be customized. When I am sleepy, I change the default voice to a rate of 80. - Please add the ability to create subfolders in the library. I am trying to organize my library alphabetically.

The quality of the app is going down with each update. The last couple of updates brought at least 3 annoying problems: 1. Now I can only delete files one by one. If I try to select multiple files with “Edit” button , selection mark jumps with each touch to a new file. 2. When I import text from a web browser (Safari or Firefox) imported file is often getting lost. File icons jump back and force and the last imported file disappears. I have to import it at least two times in order to get the file in. 3. The last word of the last paragraph is often pronounced twice. Why do you need to modify a working product. Before the last couple of updates the app was working very well. Now is a pain. I wish I could roll it back... but..

Great spiritual tool. Are use this app for many things...articles on the web that I want to listen to instead of read is one. But I use it most often as a form of reminding me of positive affirmations and my personal mission statement. I record the things that I am grateful for and a list of my spiritual truths and will listen back to them as a reminder. I have written a colloquy, a dialogue between God and me and I listen back to that. I am a student of 7 habits of highly effective people and I have my mission statement read back to me as well. All of these things are amazing tools.

Excellent, but needs better acronym or RegExp support. Reliably does what it claims to do (unlike Apple’s two-finger swipe gesture). Extra voices are very good and Apple’s enhanced voices are OK, too. Beware you don’t get all versions of the Will voice when buying the main Will voice. Only mission-critical bug I’ve found so far: Fails to read out initialisms as individual letters. That renders most technical texts unusable, especially about computers, government, law, engineering, etc. Workarounds for now: 1. (Geeky) Use an ePub editor with regular expression replacements to automatically rewrite the book files to use period-separated initialisms. 2. (Boring) Put every combination of three or four upper case letters into a pronunciation list, or at least the ones your books use most. Possible future workaround requiring minor app update: 3. (Geeky) It could be solved with one or two tiny rules in the Pronunciation Dictionary instead of thousands, but its RegExp option does not seem to support numbered replacers like ‘\1’ (backslash-one) at this time.

Amazing Potential but Limited. This app will not work with school or college textbooks and it does not clearly disclose that. I bought it as it was the ONLY app I could find that did not want to charge monthly and I loved the voices BUT it was unable to read the online viewer of the secured textbook. I tried everything and due to the need for a password it would not work. I tried Google Drive, One Drive, Adobe…everything including trying to read in the browser and it does not work. This is extremely frustrating and heartbreaking as I am having a medical issue that is impacting my eyes and I may end up haven’t to pause my graduate degree if I cannot find an app to help me read my textbooks that doesn’t read so monotoned it drives me nuts.

An essential app. This remarkable app turns any document into an audiobook. There are dozens of fairly decent voices for purchase so you can find the voice that works best for you. This is important because the voice has an impact on retention and comprehension. Once you get used to the voice, it's easy to get absorbed into the material. The reader and UI are a bit outdated and would be nice to see some improvements here, it really doesn’t work well as a book reading app. What you use this app for, however, is its stellar text to voice engine and it is the best out there.

Almost 5 stars, needs work. From my last review I finally figured out how to edit pronunciation. The ‘help’ in the app nor the website are helpful in this. Long press on the word in question in the app, and in the popup scroll right and select Pronounce and then change how the app pronounces the word and save. This looks the same as the iOS built in version but it is separate. To get back to the dictionary it is located in the app volume, yes in the volume settings. So that means you need a document ready to read to see the volume button in the app. None of this documented from my searches.

Please fix superscript citations. I commute and use this to listen to HBR articles and case studies. Any superscript numerical citation it reads regardless of citation setting. If the citation is following a period at the end of a sentence, it reads “...point (number)...” and dives right into the next sentence without pause because it thinks it’s all one sentence, making it very hard to follow if you have a lot of them. An example: “That’s according to James.^2a The next week it rained.” It reads as “That’s according to Jamespoint-two-ahthe next week it rained.” If this quirk were fixed, it would be close to perfect. Their customer service is great though! I’ve only had 1 PDF it couldn’t read correctly for some reason.

Just what I needed.. 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.

Experimental use not working. I can’t believe how difficult this app is to use. What started as a promising experiment has been turning into frustration more and more. The file navigation is extremely confusing. Just now for example I imported a file, but there was no way back to the reader screen. After importing the same file and a few others I force quit the app. Reopening put me in the reader again, but my file was missing. Sorting by date showed me old files, sorting by date again showed me many copies of my recently imported files. After cleaning up I started reading the pdf. It was unresponsive to the two finger controls. I thought I had the control wrong so I spent 5 minutes looking for help. The best I could find was the original quick start. The controls worked perfectly there. Back in my doc the reader is too fast and there is no way to slow it down.

Music to my brain🗣👉👂👍. I am an avid reader and listener. I have subscriptions to scribe and audible. I have found that this particular app how does the best presentation of text to voice with significant options to make it more usable. The developers have done a fantastic job. The multiple voice option makes it less potentially monotonous. The option to change cursor position from scrolling to set up screen is ideal for me. The ability to fine-tune speed is an excellent addition. I understand there is a Apple Watch app in the making. This would be great particularly if like the new Audible app documents can be downloaded to the watch and not dependent on the phone.

Useful on a Daily Basis. I've used this app regularly for years, mostly to read and reread files I already have, recreationally. This app just keeps getting better and better. First came the ability to read pdf files, then the article view to remove the junk at the beginning of a file. And now, the ultimate addition: OCR! It requires the one time purchase of the Scanner app, but this finally allows me to use this for work purposes! The only issue I have is lately the app will not keep the place of where it is reading out loud with the actual text display, unless I close and restart. Fix that and it's perfect!

10x better than the native IOS reader. The absolute best feature about this app is the reading list. It’s wonderful to line up a dozen articles that I want to read and just have it run through all of them without ever having to touch the phone. My one wish is that the app had some kind of tone that beeped between each article. Sometimes they seem to bleed into each other and this can lead to confusion when my article about the origin of gazpacho bleeds into my article about trumps assault on Jan 6.

10 Years a Favorite. I use it to read almost everything that’s longer than a paragraph or two. Especially long articles, PDFs, webpages, emails, all kinds of stuff. I either use the share or open in buttons, or copy and paste into Voice Dream, and have one of my many voices read it to me. It’s simply one of my most important utilities. I highly recommend it to get lots of reading done on the go, while doing other things, or simply to read things that you just don’t want to use your eyes for. There are a few apps that I would not want to be without. This is one of the top five. I use it almost every day.

Great app, feature request. As an avid reader, I have depended on this app for many years, and it still has not let me down. You integrate the ability to listen or read with a braille display, with an easy interface for a reasonable price. Thank you for the work you have done, and the integration you have implemented with other sources like dropbox. I was wondering if it would be possible for you to add support for subfolders? It would be so useful and allow us to keep our libraries better organized by genre or series.

This app is fantastic. I cannot recommend this app enough. I have trouble focusing while reading on my own and while books on audible can be great, they are also often expensive and limited in their selection. This app allows you to easily add your own PDFs, download articles from your browser, and gives you a nice variety in voices to choose from (please beware, however, that you will need to purchase additional voices if you do not want to use the default ones). The streamlined nature of the interface and the well maintained updates make this app an excellent deal for anyone looking for an auditory assisted app.

Best app I've ever bought. There are a lot of books I want to read but don't have time. I like the idea of audiobooks, but I don't want just read anything. I've tried getting an audible subscription before but lose interest because I choose books they recommend/have rather than ones I'm interested in. The books I want to read are usually cutting edge or obscure with rare info and have no audiobooks. This lets me read any PDF book I find while I'm doing other stuff. The text to speech is a little robotic, but still pretty darn good. The "Heather" voice is my favorite.

Amazing app!. This has been a life saver app. I’m currently in my first year of law school and have found it incredibly difficult to read cases. I thought surely if Audible exist, and technology exists to do voice to text then there should be something that will translate a text to voice. I googled this app, downloaded it and it works like a dream. There are a few occasions that it will mispronounce a word, but I just follow along as it’s reading and don’t miss a thing. So far the OCR for scanned documents has worked like a charm, and I’ve uploaded some pretty crappy scans. Totally worth the 20 bucks!

Can’t live without it. I would give this 10 stars if I could…. This is one of the top three apps on my phone, and I hope that they continue to jump through whatever hoops Apple throws at them to keep the app compatible with future versions of IOS…..I NEVER WANT TO GET RID OF THIS APP!! I use it constantly; while driving, when I cook, on breaks from work, and when I go to sleep (with the handy timer, of course!) I love the voice choices, the speed selection, the ease of file adds from my phone file storage, the pronunciation dictionary (especially for fantasy and sci fi), etc. In addition, they are incredible at servicing their costumers. Last week, an update disabled my ability to place the reading cursor at a different location in my epub document. I emailed them and received a reply the next day, asking what type of docs I usually use. I replied, and there was an update with a fix for my issue WITHIN TWO DAYS!! Who does that? Voice Dream does! They care about their customers.

Frustrating: controls not accessible from full screen. I’ve had this app for many years. I love that I can listen to long documents/websites rather than reading it. However, within the last few years I’ve been getting too frustrated that I’ve stopped using it. Although it’s not turned on, it always goes into full screen. Then I have problems getting to the controls (play/pause, forward, bookmark, etc). I’ve tried single/double taps or press and hold on the ‘header’ and ‘footer’ areas. I’ve even trying sliding my finger in all directions. Still the controls don’t appear. I end up using the phone’s control center or just closing the app.

LOVE This App!. Wow! After trying the other similar apps, we were shocked at how much better this was by a mile. It's interface, assortment of voices, and various sources make it stand out. The support is top notch, having sent emails that were answered within a few hours What really stands out, is the optional voices that can be downloaded. So if you're turning an ebook into an audiobook, you've got some variety with narrators. It's not a perfect human voice, but within 80-90% depending on the voice you choose. We really like Salli, Sharon, and Paul. I imagine these voice synthesizers will only get better with processing power over time.

A wonderful reading app. I especially appreciate this reading app above all others for its flexibility, ease of use, and powerful support features. this app has excellent, high-quality voices for reading, supports using a braille display, and has study tools that make working with multiple subjects a much easier process. I use it to read everything from cookbooks to fiction, from periodicals to technical manuals. It works beautifully with Bookshare, dropbox, and other sources for digital books or text files.

I ❤️ this app. Honestly, this is the best money I’ve spent in the App Store or potentially across the whole internet. This app meant that for the first time I could complete my college assignments! It’s unparalleled and totally worth the money. Users can change voice and speed. Personally, I don’t love the in app notes and highlighting so I print out articles and mark the hard copy. The user interface has only gotten better since I got the app in ‘15. I recommend this app to any friend who prefers audio based content, especially to my dyslexic friends and family members. Again, can’t hype it enough.

Amazing! 😄❤️ So much better than Speechify!. I tried another app called Speechify, which I believe is more popular than this one for some reason. That one has a monthly subscription *with a word limit*. So, you have to pay an obscene amount of money to get enough words to read large numbers of books through that app. Plus, that app isn’t even designed to read ebooks in the first place—even though they seem to advertise as such. Voice Dream blows Speechify out of the water: 1) No monthly subscription—and has the same exact Ivona voices as Speechify (I recommend the Ivona voices Joey (U.S.) and Amy (U.K.)) 2) Made for listening to entire ebooks and articles—can import ePubs, PDFs, webpage articles, etc. 3) Has a highlight function—with export functionality as well (I love to highlight in ebooks.) 4) Does not require a constant internet connection to read the text in a high-quality voice like Speechify does. You can play things on repeat, set a sleep timer, play audio files (and speed them up), and so much more. It’s quickly become one of my absolute favorite and most-used apps! Highly recommended! I LOVE it! 😄❤️

Most used App on my phone for years.. I’ve used this App through medical school, residency and now as an attending physician. Almost anything can be made into a PDF, then just load it into Voice Dream Reader and go. I listen to books, medical journal articles, and legal briefs. I can load nearly any webpage into the App and it is especially useful for listening to news articles. Prior to owning this App, I would never read long form journalism but now I listen to 10,000 word articles no problem. This app is also great for checking your own work for grammatical and spelling errors — they are way easier to catch when listening to your work. Before sending an important email, submitting an article or academic assignment I always listen to it first using this App. I love that this is not a subscription service and that it is regularly updated. The support team is also very responsive. Bottom line: if you’re an auditory learner this App allows you to plow through information. It will make you better informed and smarter.

Great app PLEEEAASE FIX small BUG though. Good The app is amazing to listen to books if you are driving in the car or want to do other things while reading. It is a lifesaver and has helped me multitask while being able to engulfed in reading amazing books. This app, I would’ve honestly paid $30 for how much I use it because it is so helpful. The voices aren’t too choppy, so you get used to them and they begin to flow rather nicely. I must thank the team whoever made this app so much because this app was a lifesaver and has helped me dedicate MANY hours of my time to reading through this app. I’ve used this app more than any other on any phone I’ve ever had other than messages. Bad This app is great, but I also have the issue to where if I switch from another app back to voicedream, the book flips to a random page. I try to text my girlfriend and read at the same time, but I have to always bookmark before I exit or I will lose my spot. This is an extremely annoying bug that no other popular reading apps have. But the app is great.

I Want To Give It A 5 But.... This app has saved me on so many occasions. I’ve recommended it to several people. It has help me blast through script reading, so I’ve been able to keep up with the demand of submissions and project drafts. However, it’s been getting out of sync lately. I am assuming when you increase the more words per minute it tends to cause some glitches - the voice will be ahead of what’s being highlighted and I’ll have to tap the highlighted word to start all over again so it can sync back up. My eyes are following the words but the voice is ahead of the game, it can be a little annoying and confusing. I wish that didn’t happen, I’d give it a 5 star review otherwise.

This is a must have, one of the best apps on the App Store. This ad does a fantastic job of reading up text articles from almost any website I use it constantly every day to listen to about a third of all the news articles I get. It runs in the background so you can be looking for email while you’re listening to the news, or queue it up and drive in your car without any Wi-Fi. The voice quality is great and the price is a real bargain I wish I could give it 10 stars

Wretched Reader that deserves 0 stars. I had high hopes for this reader after listening to some samples and reading other reviews. I’m sorry now that I bought this thing. Maybe this works for some, but this reader can’t even pronounce “sacrifice,” “flesh,” “mythical,” or “originated” correctly and the highly-mechanical and robotic cadence and sound is really noticeable once it’s not longer reading easy sample text. Here’s what I don’t get. Google is able to make a very effective audio reader; I mean, that’s precisely what the Home or Mini is doing if you ask a question and it has to read back what it’s found on Wikipedia. So why people can’t figure out how to replicate that is obscure. THAT, I would pay for. As for this...If I could get my money back, I would. Don’t buy this thing.

Essential tool as a graduate student and full-time employee!. Voice Dream has been a tremendous help when it comes to “reading” textbooks and articles required for my research as I pursue my doctorate degree. You can send PDFs, Word Doc files, and webpages quickly and easily, and Voice Dream does a great job reading them. It also allows the user to group files into folders, which helps you keeps the files organized. Additionally, I use it on both my iPhone and iPad, and it syncs nicely between the devices. I will send the files to Voice Dream from my iPad, and the use Voice Dream to “read” the text to me while commuting to work. It is a fantastic product!

Download it already! A true App Store gem that continues to receive updates after nearly 8 years!. I downloaded version 2.x of this this app WAY back in 2013! I am very happy to report that this app STILL continues to receive regular updates and and improvements nearly a decade later!!l!....although I must admit.... The list of possible improvements has grown very short as the developers continue to implement great improvements and also listen to suggestions from users. A+ This is an underpriced app, if you happen to catch it on sale do not miss this!

Voice Dream Reader — Everyone Knows the Rules. If reading and comprehension are wrong, then voicedream reader doesn’t want to be right. The suite of apps produced by voice dream LLC have absolutely changed my life by way of providing the best technology in the text to audio competitive market. No other app does more to provide accessibility to auditory learners. This apps compatibility across the many different formats of text based information sources is remarkable. Whether reading a pdf, or a book in e-format, or simply listening to something I have written myself, this application increases my ability to intake information in a format that suits my learning style while also giving me the ability to proof read my own work with a simple copy and paste. I love this app and have recommended to pretty much anyone in my life who lives on audible, because it’s mobile app isn’t subscription based and allows true reading-aholics to live and read happily ever after. I hate this app. 😉

Incredibly useful. I love this app! Very useful for getting through all of my school readings. The adjustable number of words per minute and the time reading estimate are especially useful. There are only two consistent problems: there doesn’t seem to be an option to skip footnotes, so in readings with a lot of footnotes you have to skip them manually which can be annoying, even though it can skip in text citations. Also, while the OCR is pretty good, it jumps around a lot in two page scanned in spreads and is significantly less useful than for PDFs with recognizable text.

An excellent app - one with multiple uses. I’ve been using Voice Dreamer for about 3 weeks and while it isn’t perfect, it IS an excellent and thoughtfully designed app. Different people will have varying purposes in mind for the app but in my case, I was looking for a V-to-T app that I could use both during long dog walks as well as one that would enable me to both “bookmark” passages for review and to export selected passages. VoiceDream handles both sets of tasks very well. As a newbie to T-to-V, I was a bit disappointed with the artificial flow and pacing of the text but alas, that is the state of the art at this point. I have tried other T-to-V apps and found the same shortcomings in terms of the flow and pacing. Also, I found that it is important to try different voices to find the one(s) that are most comfortable. I purchased two voices but finally settled one of the iOS voices. One thing the app doesn’t have is an Mac OS X version. It would be nice but it isn’t crucial for me. On the other hand, the developer seems committed to continually enhancing the app. This alone makes the price very worthwhile. So I do look forward to future updates.

zn. 中文的"十"仍然经常丢失,应迅速解决。 中文的标点符号,有时仃留时间太長。 希望䏻与iPad定时器联系起来,可以定时读多少时间。有利临睡前的欣赏阅读。 最近升级后几乎无法使用,经常死机,连重新关机-开机都无法解决。应迅速解决这个问题。 The recent upgrade must be some severe bugs, cause it frequently stops work(no voice output). Even I reset my iPad, this problem still there. Now I can't use it. Hope seller could solve it quickly. This problem was solved. Developer reply my email quickly, so, I feel he is a responsible person. This APP I use every day, cozy my eyes are not good. Thanks for this wonderful app. I like this App very much, but could you improve sound and highlight more exactly? And, add picture to text, and speak it. Thanks again.

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Language English
Price Free
Adult Rating 4+ years and older
Current Version 4.27.5
Play Store com.voicedream.Voice-Dream-Reader
Compatibility iOS 14.0 or later

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The application Voice Dream - Read Aloud was published in the category Education on 09 February 2012, Thursday and was developed by Voice Dream LLC [Developer ID: 496177677]. This program file size is 222.98 MB. This app has been rated by 6,146 users and has a rating of 4.5 out of 5. Voice Dream - Read Aloud - Education app posted on 05 February 2024, Monday current version is 4.27.5 and works well on iOS 14.0 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.voicedream.Voice-Dream-Reader. Languages supported by the app:

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Fix bug when loading content. Custom margins for PDFs, support for more audio files and fix go to percentage

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