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✓ Really useful for my ADHDThis app has been life-changing! I have wanted to study mycology and botany, but my ability to read (which was pretty poor to start with) has severely declined due to lots of stressors, ADHD, and PTSD. I could manage a few paragraphs a day of my plant biochemistry book on my own, but finished a whole chapter the day I started using Dream Reader. I love that I can set it to play every file, so that I have a queue of thngs playing while I do other stuff. I am glad to finally have proof that I can understabd complex subject matter, as long as it’s presented in an accessible way. I appreciate how fast I can set the speaking rate, and the customizeability of the scrolling text. I use the option of only showing the word that is currently being spoken, but plan to try the other options to hopefully improve my reading ability. Prior to finding this app I tried Speechify and Natural Speech, but those both much more expensive, and the price is for an annual prescription. The only thing missing for me with Voice Dream is the ability to export the text as MP3 files, but for the price I am happy to go without that..Version: 4.16.2
✓ Almost PerfectI can share any page from the web through Voice Reader in the Article option which is fine. I can do the same for the PDF book standing in my Books application from Apple and open the option PDF in Voice Reader which is amazing. Then when I try the same things for the ePub file in Books the sharing doesn’t work in Voice Reader it shows only the title of the book in the Full Text option and this point misses the perfect... I bought the premium voice Salli (English, United States) from Ivona and the voice read the text like usual, like any other voice could read the text and then at some random part or some books I choose to read the voice Salli start to read up only each letter of the text instead of reading words to make a sentence a the end. By the way I love your app and I am sure your doing the best for make it running properly..Version: 4.14.2
✓ Cannot recommend enoughAmazing app that’s changed my life, and dedicated customer support who consistently go beyond call of duty to help to solve any issues, with gentle humour and warmth. In particular, Sandra has been a delight to work with..Version: 4.14.16
✓ Le meilleurs apps pour lecture audio et de loin. Un MUST.De l’argent bien investie..Version: 4.15.7
✓ 🤯 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!.Version: 4.13.10
✓ One of my "Must Have" appsAs a blind person who loves to read, I can still remember having to deal with bulky Braille books or expensive talking book machines. Voice Dream Reader lets me carry dozens of books in my pocket, as well as reading me the latest news thanks to its Instapaper support. I wish Apple would reach out and allow this app to access iBooks, but that's not in the developer's control. This app has evolved nicely since its release. The developer is committed to adding valuable features and new voices. Highly recommended..Version: 3.5.0
✓ Appreciation from a frequent userI 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..Version: 4.16.1
✓ 10/10This 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..Version: 4.13.12
✓ 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!.Version: 4.8.4
✓ 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!.Version: 4.14.15
✓ University studentI can not say enough about this app, it has helped me plough through my readings at university. I’m not the fast reader and so it’s been the best resource I’ve found so far to help me! Love it!.Version: 4.13.12
✓ Please add gujarti voicesIt would be really nice if you can add gujarti voices to the voicedream reader.Version: 4.11.4
✓ Very helpful, but has flawsThis was such a lifesaver for making my 6-hour drive productive. However, the order in which text is read off of scanned PDFs is a little unpredictable and confusing for listening. Dashes, for instance, cause the rest of the sentence to be skipped. Why? Also, sometimes horizontally placed headers are read in a seemingly random order. I didn’t have either of these issues when using iOS’s built-in text recognition. So, in total, this is a great app, but there’s room for improvement..Version: 4.13.12
✓ 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 :-(.Version: 4.4.6
✓ Great (and a request)If you’re someone who likes or needs to multitask while reading, this is an invaluable app. I use it hours every day, and it’s vastly superior to Apple’s accessibility reader for this purpose. The premium voices available are quite good, but not up to the standard of some of the fantastic synthetic speech one hears lately. Any chance of adding a super-premium voice to your offerings?.Version: 4.14.6
✓ 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.Version: 4.14.2
✓ Amazing tool!This app has helped me digest large information.. Highly recommend!.Version: 4.11.2
✓ Fantastic appAs a blind person I find this app exceptionally good. It works very well with voice-over and is well worth the cost..Version: 3.7.0
✓ Version 3.7.0, 1 of the best yet. Can't wait til version 4Honestly, I love the voices. I got VoiceDream writer 3 weeks ago, and cannot put it down. I have traded KeySoft's wordprocessor for VoiceDream Writer. It's a shame that the rating couldn't be higher, because I'd give 8000000000 stars. Keep it up.Version: 3.7.0
✓ Love it!I just started using the app and I really really like it. I don’t know if it is going to be changing in the future, but at the moment it is everything I had really hoped for from an app like this. However, I noticed that there isn’t much support for mathematics. I would really like to have a better reading/listening experience when reading content related to mathematics and equations. Please continue to upgrade and improve the application package and I’ll be sure to support you in any ways I can for your efforts. Thanks again for your hard work guys, keep up the good work!.Version: 4.11.4
✓ Remarkable appThis 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..Version: 4.12.0
✓ No CarPlay supportGood voices but lacks CarPlay..Version: 4.21.0
✓ Quantum leapI downloaded this yesterday, having seen it on the iOS today weekly screen cast. I am a vision impaired user, and this app is a game changer. I’m attending a meeting this week with no fewer than 22 papers. I have already read and digested all of them thanks to this app. This is the kind of software that we need more of and is a major contribution to inclusivity and usability..Version: 4.13.6
✓ Awesome general purpose appThis 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!.Version: 2.4.0
✓ Book share book download brokenNow fixed. Thanks!.Version: 4.14.6
✓ 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..Version: 4.14.6
✓ Awesome must buyGreat voices with an unlimited library space. I have been using this app for years to listen to books on the days when my dyslexia stops me and to continue while doing other things..Version: 4.7.1
✓ Essential appsBeing visually impaired the Voice Dream apps on IOS have been a godsend. Now the Mac version has made the experience even easier to manage. The support is very good - I sent a request for help yesterday and had a reply in 3 hours. I would highly recommend both the IOS and Mac apps if you have problems reading like me. A big thank you to the developer for these absolutely essential apps..Version: 4.15.6
✓ 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!.Version: 4.13.6
✓ Some quirks but overall very helpfulI 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..Version: 4.8.4
✓ Have used since launch and still the best voice reader availableI 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: <h1>Chapter 1</h1> - Index this <p>Body of paragraph</p> - Don’t index this That would really make navigating otherwise unorganized text much easier and useful. Thanks again and keep up the great work..Version: 4.14.8
✓ Love itAm using this on my iPhone and iPad to listen to Harry Potter Fanfiction. Other stories will come too. Thankyou.Version: 4.14.13
✓ A life changer5 years since I finished my higher education I've gone back to study and this was suggested to me, I'm dyslexic. This has completely changed how I can study, this is the tools to overcome my disability and achieve what I thought previously was impossible. It's so user friendly and surprisingly the voice is actually pretty good and you can change how it pronounces words. Just in love with this app. Will help me in my professional job and studied and just in my personal time trying to read news stories..Version: 3.7.0
✓ Love this App stillVoice 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..Version: 4.10.1
✓ You get what you pay forWell 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.Version: 4.4.9
✓ Use it all the timeI 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..Version: 4.5.1
✓ BrilliantEasily the best text-to-speech I’ve tried for mobile. You’ll need to spend a fiver on a good voice to get the best out of it, though. Highly recommended..Version: 4.10.2
✓ Excellent text to speech appI have been using Voice Dream for nearly two years. I have lots of books in my iPad VD library that I listen to on Voice Dream. It works very well and I am very happy with it. I also have the other apps by the same developer: Writer and Mail..Version: 4.5.2
✓ Very useful and efficient…Very good app, has allowed me to simulate multiple pages of documents at speed. If you suffer from any type of reading disorder, like dyslexia this is A very useful aid. Initially when using the app, I started off at around 180 words per minute, and now I can read at the full 530 words per minute, which is about four times normal speed… Hundred page document can be read within two hours, with additional utility gained from visually looking at the text as it’s being read with the moving highlighter….Version: 4.11.4
✓ Amazing productivity toolIts 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..Version: 4.6.3
✓ Great support for a great productI’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..Version: 4.7.1
✓ Better then other one!Purchase error with Bridget UK voice….Version: 4.14.18
✓ Wonderful App!!!Really valuable app if like me you want to get through a lot of reading material in a short period of time. Love it!!.Version: 4.6.3
✓ Valuable Time SaverI 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!.Version: 4.7.1
✓ Suggestions for future updatesI 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!.Version: 4.5.4
✓ Excellent product for aspiring academicI 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?).Version: 4.13.2
✓ Amazing appI’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..Version: 4.5.1
✓ Request for Rich Text Highlighting FeatureI 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..Version: 4.17.8
✓ Too Busy to ReadThis program is just what I have always needed. A choice of voices and easy to switch between listening and reading. Well done..Version: 4.10.1
✓ AlmostI 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)..Version: 4.14.1
✓ Nothing even comes closeAny 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..Version: 4.4.9
✓ Great app, one complaintGreat 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..Version: 4.14.3
✓ Life-changingly fantasticI 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!.Version: 4.9.2
✓ 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..Version: 4.15.1
✓ AmazingBest of the best..Version: 4.8.4
✓ The App Gets Better and Better!Thanks for VDR. This app just gets better with every update. i particularly find useful the thorough documentation of every change within it. It's great to have access to such great tts voices on my iDEVICE. Equally great to know details of my documents - such as how long it will take to read them..Version: 4.1.1
✓ 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+.Version: 4.7.1
✓ Fantastic appVery high quality voices, can be sped up extremely fast. Very robust support for various file formats, Including text, Doc, PowerPoint, Daisy, PDF, EPUB etc. Integration with dropbox, Instapaper, pocket, bookshare, etc. Very responsive developer who has done a great job of this app. Would highly recommend it to anybody. This is now my favourite reading app. It has replaced four other reading apps I use to use. The author is very responsive and frequently updates the app. VoiceOver support is now great and I can now read books with a braille display. Worth every cent..Version: 3.0.1
✓ Absolutely incredibleAs a totally blind avid book reader, I have been a long time user of both laptops and desktops. It is not very convenient to carry a laptop everywhere you go, especially if you’re on a nice sandy beach. This app makes it possible for me to read books where ever I am and four hours at a time. I would not be without it it is a truly incredible app and I can now take a huge collection of books in my pocket where ever I go. It is easy to navigate and has a wealth of different voices for you to find the one that suits you best..Version: 4.5.0
✓ This is excellent - here’s whyI have to give this five stars because it’s the most complete TTS and almost an alternative audiobook app. The integrated controls, the configuration, support for Dropbox etc make this the most feature complete solution. If you don’t want to pay the Premium then Speech Central has most of these features for a lower price. Speech Central is also very active and approachable on Reddit and Twitter. The extra Ivona voice did set me back £5 extra but I knew it would and it’s money well spent. Although the voice of Speechify is still the most natural there are too many downsides. Start with Speech Central and make sure you check with them if you think features are missing. If you want what I consider currently the best then choose this one. HTH..Version: 4.16.1
✓ Read fasterI’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!.Version: 4.13.12
✓ So usefulI use this for listening to long magazine or newspaper articles that I don't get around to reading. I listen to a lot of audio books and podcasts so this fills in a nice gap for me and I get to enjoy long form journalism. It's good now but I look forward to it being even better in the future..Version: 4.1.0
✓ 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!.Version: 4.13.12
✓ Daily appThis 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..Version: 4.5.2
✓ Worth the costTried a bunch of free ones until this was recommended. I use it to read screenplays and it’s wonderful because you can train it to pronounce the formatting correctly. No stupid ads or minute caps and no subscription after initial payment. Great app.Version: 4.13.12
✓ Bien utilePetits problenes avec le déplacement entre des signets. Mais, dans l’ensemble, l’app est tres utile opour la lecture..Version: 4.13.7
✓ When it's working, it's almost perfectI’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..Version: 4.11.1
✓ 💯 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..Version: 4.7.1
✓ Had this App years and love it.With all this digital books available it’s hard to read them all. Listening while travelling or gardening or tired eye strain to listen to all my ebooks and Pdf is a dream. Someone who can’t read gave it a one star as it does no support kindle books when it was clearly states it does not. My opinion and I have had this App easily more than 6 years it cost my back then £6.99. Great for studying and options for different voices. I personally love it.Version: 4.13.12
✓ 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!!.Version: 4.4.8
✓ Fantastic AppNote: 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..Version: 4.13.12
✓ So useful!One of the most useful apps on my phone. Great for listening to books and articles, and proof-reading texts. Allows me to consume texts despite my busy life..Version: 4.14.6
✓ 100% Worth the $$ with a Few Small BugsI 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..Version: 4.11.4
✓ An AppStore StapleI'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..Version: 4.4.9
✓ 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!.Version: 4.7.1
✓ I’ve tried them all, get this oneTL;DR — I’ve tried them all, get this one. I love reading the news but don’t have enough time to read all the big scoops and long-form articles I’ve saved on Pocket. Now with a few clicks I can have all those stories read to me like an on demand ebook while I do laundry or run errands or just hangout with my dog. It’s ***** awesome. Text to speech/natural language processor technology is getting crazy. The developers of this app 100% deserve the fee for this app. Best £ I’ve ever spent in the app store. And I’ve tried all similar apps in this category, none come close to this. P.S. My favorite voice option is the woman with the Australian accent. It’s an extra pound or two but again, zero regrets. Best cost to value ratio on something I’ve purchase in years..Version: 4.5.0
✓ The cream of the cropI'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..Version: 4.6.3
✓ AmazingThis 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.Version: 4.13.12
✓ Great way to read.Lots of realistic voices.Version: 4.4.8
✓ Issue fixedI 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..Version: 4.14.12
✓ Worth Every Penny And MoreOn iOS this app works amazing. In fact I got an iOS device just for this and voice dream writer. The connection to Pocket and Google Drive enable me to read blogs, articles, ebooks and reports in half the time AND take notes in Google Keep. I am wildly dyslexic and over the few years I have been using these apps I have significantly increased my written output, accuracy and level of reading. This has had a positive impact on both my income and, even better my self confidence and creativity. Thanks Winston :-).Version: 4.9.9
✓ Voice stream document access solution: accessible, comprehensive, consistent and ReliableVoice 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..Version: 4.12.0
✓ 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..Version: 4.8.2
✓ 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..Version: 4.8.3
✓ Life changing appAs someone who has ADHD and struggles to read, I have always been able to listen and comprehend very well. I've always preferred audiobooks to reading books. Unfortunately, this has been a major challenge for me regarding case studies and other academic materials, and newspaper articles. Voice Dream Reader has been completely life-changing. The app is beautiful and well-designed, and I love that I can play through my entire reading list anytime I have my headphones in or drive. The app is very well-polished, and it is straightforward to add content by sharing. The Mac App is also incredible. Voice Dream Reader is one of the most excellent apps I've ever discovered, and it is worth every penny; even the Mac subscription is worth the monthly cost. I highly recommend this application to anyone that wants to listen to content. Also, the available voices on iOS are incredible. Just go through all of them until you find your favorite one. There is no need to buy any voices, in my opinion, since the iOS voices are superior..Version: 4.17.7
✓ Fantastic assistive technology for dyslexic learnersVoice Dream makes 'reading' school texts so much easier for dyslexia learners. Thank you for this resource..Version: 3.7.0
✓ Will be well usedI can see myself using this often at night and on my way to work for my studies. I simply opened my pdf textbook using this app and it is read to me in an easy to the ear voice..Version: 4.4.6
✓ Great toolI have been using this app for a year and it really helps me a lot. If you are planning to buy a voice, I highly recommend UK Amy from Ivona or US James from NeoSpeech..Version: 4.13.12
✓ Best app I own!While the app has a few little quirks that make it a little less than perfect, it nearly is. I love to write and greatly enjoy listening to stories. Before I found this app I spent a lot of time reading. Now I am more active and more productive because I can do both. It even helps me edit my own writing. Love it! Update: recently got an Apple Watch and I couldn’t be more disappointed in the functionality on that platform. It to my eye does nothing but cause frustration and when playing is the Home Screen but I can’t even pause the playback. One of my greatest hopes for it is a bust. I wanted to be able to load a reading list and then go exercise without the phone. I understand memory on the watch is an issue, but this is ridiculous. Still love the phone app, but I think the watch app will be deleted soon..Version: 4.24.0
✓ 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..Version: 4.4.8
✓ Best reading app for IOS, second place is of academic interestIt 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..Version: 4.6.4
✓ Easily the best text-to-speech app on IOS.If you buy a couple of the better IAP voices, such as those from Acapela, this is about as close to human speech as commercial text-to-speech can get. Support is also speedy and efficient. These are people who care about their customers. Highly recommended. Nic.Version: 4.5.1
✓ Couldn’t work without it.Voice dream is godsend for any writer, in fact it’s a must have for anyone who puts words on paper. No matter how many times something is edited it’s easy to miss the odd word, especially words like ‘and’ and ‘the’ because our eyes skates over them. Voice Dream catches all of them. Things like modulation and rhythm are much easier to pick up on as well. The voices used are very natural. I use Heather, and apart from the odd rare word, the pronunciation is perfect. It’s so realistic and easy to listen to, the app is ideal for creating your own audio books. You can even edit within the app, add notes and highlights as you go along. I can’t recommend it highly enough..Version: 4.9.7
✓ “, THIS’ S BRONSON CLARK’S TEXT TO SPEECH IMAGINATION 💭“,💭 THE’ MOUNTAINS 🏔.Version: 4.18.4
✓ A great app, not necessarily $10 greatFirst 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..Version: 4.5.4
✓ Law student requires to listen to text with noise canceling headphones to keep up with reading listsWith Covid 19 forcing work from home the law school at waikato University has put text on line invade New Zealand has to do more that 28 days lock down 4 of 4. This readerlets the on line required text be read out so that much much more of the required text is available when tied and reading is still a must. Best money spent..Version: 4.12.0
✓ Thank you for caring about your customers’ feedbackI’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!.Version: 4.14.7
✓ Great Proof ReaderI can’t really fault this app. When paired with one of Ivona’s excellent voices, you have a quite brilliant proof reader. A perfect companion for any authors out there..Version: 4.11.2
✓ Excellente applicationJe 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.Version: 4.21.6
✓ 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!.Version: 4.7.1
✓ Great apReally like this so so far however I can’t get it to share my reading list on my I watch just says empty which is rather annoying as got it for when running. Anyone know how?.Version: 4.8.4
✓ Honestly the best app everIf I had to pick my favourite app. This would be it. It’s the reason I did not buy a google pixel..Version: 4.14.7
✓ Great app for lawyersI 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..Version: 4.14.2
✓ 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!.Version: 4.14.0
✓ Very impressiveThis program does what it says, and does it well. Unlike similar programs, I’ve tried it works flawlessly. I use it mainly on my iPad. Other programs seem to have pauses miss words. This one doesn’t jump or miss words. Very satisfied..Version: 4.18.7
✓ Good reader, but bad for studyingThis 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..Version: 4.12.0
✓ InvestedThis app has been kept current for over 7 years! I read much online content this way. Maybe a watch app might be possible? But already I find it near perfect..Version: 4.4.2
✓ Great app!Really impressed with the range of formats this app works with!.Version: 3.5.3
✓ Love of My LifeThis 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..Version: 4.20.3
✓ Absolutely Love ItAfter 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:).Version: 4.14.18
✓ Voice Dream ReaderSorry 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..Version: 3.5.3
✓ Needed helpVery willing to give assistence.Version: 4.15.4
✓ Part of my life nowI can’t live without this app. My only gripe is crashes when loading huge ePub books. I like reading web novels and some of these are huge (350 hour monolithic LitRPG sagas with html tables and such). It becomes impossible to switch to rich text mode and I’m stuck with basic text only, which I don’t really mind but it would be great if that worked. I know it’s a daunting technical challenge to load such huge files, but maybe partition it per chapter and only load the relevant data needed to display the part I’m currently reading? It’s a great app overall and totally worth a purchase. Also, I can’t thank the devs enough for the constant updates and QoL improvements they constantly add..Version: 4.18.8
✓ One of my most used appsVoice 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!.Version: 4.10.2
✓ 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!.Version: 4.13.10
✓ Going back to school made easyThis 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..Version: 4.11.1
✓ WOWIt’s not often I’m this impressed with an app. I have felt very let down lately by a number of developers. First this app works, it does what it says on the tin and it does it extremely well! Second, it’s not a subscription plan and so far I’ve not seen any hidden purchases. Third it is value for money and seems to be priced fairly. I’ve tested it to the extreme. I took a previously scanned 190 page document and imported it. The app asked if o wanted to run OCR, so I did. Within a minute or so I had exported the text to my written app of choice. The spoken text is the best I’ve heard to date (There are a choice of voices so have a play until you find one that suits). There were no mistakes. I’ve tried other text sources with strange fonts etc... same results. There are features I would like to see, such as a better file manager etc... it allows for folders but via a drop down, this is perfectly adequate though. I bought the suit with the writer and the scanner etc... it’s so good I’d claim the use of wizardry!!!!! I’ll be recommending this app to my University, work colleagues and whenever I get the chance. I would be extremely happy to see a Mac OSX version ..Version: 4.9.4
✓ 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..Version: 4.4.8
✓ Works brilliantlyThis is a brilliant app. I use it regularly. It certainly does work.Version: 4.14.2
✓ Eye problemsI 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..Version: 4.15.0
✓ AwesomeI 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..Version: 4.11.2
✓ Great App, Minor BugThe 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! :).Version: 4.5.4
✓ VoiceDream Reader Terrific App I rely on and use all the timeFocus 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!.Version: 4.1.0
✓ Great App — Watch App Needs WorkVoice 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..Version: 4.14.6
✓ Voice Dream ReaderMore 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.Version: 4.16.1
✓ Revolutionalises ReadingThis 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..Version: 3.5.1
✓ There isn’t a close 2ndOne of the biggest reasons i still use my iPad/am still part of iOS ecosystem, is because of this app. I read a lot and there isn’t another text reader that is as brilliant as voice dream..Version: 4.14.12
✓ 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..Version: 4.11.2
✓ Fabulous app.So o give 5*. For those of us with less than great eyes for reading... indispensable. Anyway one small bug I noticed is to do with synching between phone and Apple Watch (latest one whatever that is). If you listen on the watch is syncs that position automatically in the iPhone.... BUT if I listen in the iPhone it does not sync that position when you next launch the watch app. So you keep being thrown back to the last Watch location. A fix would be great!!.Version: 4.8.4
✓ Great reading app,...Excellent, and very accessible with Voice Over. Love it. Since I heard it can work directly with some US libraries for the blind it would be amazing if it worked with the UK RNIB libraries..Version: 4.14.13
✓ Fantastic appI'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..Version: 4.4.9
✓ Groundbreaking app for active readingVoice Dream Reader reader supports sight reading of text to suit your print preference by allowing you to fully customise how the text is displayed in text view. If you require a large font you can easily increase the font size and it reflows into a single column -greatly improving readability by removing the need to pan to bring the text into view. You also have control over font, text colour, page colour in fact all colours including highlight text. Voice Dream Reader lets you control the reading simply clicking where you want it to start reading, with controls to skip forward and back by reading unit which you can set as sentence, page, etc. In addition to comfortable sight reading and reactive text-to-speech, Voice Dream Reader also lets you take notes directly into the text when reading, thus supporting active reading. The notes appear in text view and original view. You can happily the add notes as you go along, and then when ready, extract all your notes, with the associated highlighted text, and send these to Word or another app of your choice. This therefore is a powerful tool for students and researchers. The Voice Dreamer Reader team are also responsive to email and from my experience I have found them to be fully committed to delivering a groundbreaking inclusive reading tool..Version: 4.9.4
✓ Skip citations!!!OMG where is the 6th Star!!.Version: 4.5.0
✓ Indispensable!This is my most used app and the reason I ended up owning an iPhone, iPad and Mac. The new Mac OS version is a welcome addition. I get eyestrain using screens all day for work. I have tried various remedies but this app has enabled me to do most of my recreational reading in comfort. To be able to close my eyes and be soothed by a good novel at the end of long day in front of my workstation. I am so very grateful that it is exits and now has a Mac version. I can store my library on my phone and position gets synced seamlessly between Mac and iPhone. The customer service has been faultless over the years I have used it. I get the sense the developer is passionate about crafting a faultless and elegant tool. I haven’t found anything else that even comes close to providing such fantastic functionality with an extremely well designed interface. It just makes my brain happy..Version: 4.14.18
✓ Great for WritersAbsolutely fantastic for listening to my novels and short stories in progress. I’m thrilled with my purchase and happy not to be tied into an expensive yearly subscription that only allows you access to 250k words per month as per another app. Great value for money and realistic voices you can download. Very impressed. I will vdd we recommending it to others. -Karline Smith.Version: 4.13.12
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