Voice Dream Reader is an advanced text-to-speech application designed to enhance reading efficiency and accessibility, particularly for individuals with dyslexia, visual impairments, ADHD, and other reading challenges, though it is beneficial for anyone looking to improve their reading experience.
What it Does
Voice Dream Reader converts written content into audible format, allowing users to listen to PDF documents, web articles, eBooks, emails, and various other types of documents. This functionality enables users to multitask, such as listening to content while walking, exercising, or performing chores, and can significantly increase reading speed and comprehension.Key Features
Natural-Sounding Voices
The app offers a wide range of high-quality text-to-speech voices, including one premium Acapela voice and access to 36 built-in iOS voices. Additionally, nearly 100 more voices in 20 languages from providers like Ivona, Acapela, and NeoSpeech are available for purchase.Wide File Format Support
Voice Dream Reader supports a broad array of file formats, including PDF, EPUB, DAISY, plain text, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Apple Pages, Apple Keynote, HTML, RTF, and audio files. This versatility ensures that users can access and listen to a variety of content sources.Customizable Reading Experience
Users can customize the reading experience with options such as adjustable font styles, sizes, colors, and text highlighting. The app also supports synchronized word and line highlighting, focused reading mode, and auto-scrolling for hands-free reading.Advanced Listening Controls
The app provides comprehensive listening controls, including play-pause functionality with remote control, a sleep timer, configurable speech rate, volume, and pitch. Users can rewind or fast forward by sentence, paragraph, page, chapter, or specific time intervals. It also allows creating playlists for continuous listening and remembers the user’s last reading position in each document.Content Management
Voice Dream Reader offers robust content management features, including folders for organizing content, a text editor, and options to export full text, highlighted text, and notes to various destinations such as clipboard, printer, email, and other apps. The app integrates seamlessly with cloud services like Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, Bookshare, Instapaper, and Pocket.Visual Interaction and Accessibility
The app supports full-text search, bookmarking, highlighting, note-taking, and dictionary lookups. It is particularly beneficial for users with dyslexia and visual impairments, offering features like customizable color themes and the ability to adjust text spacing and margins. The integration with Bookshare, the world’s largest accessible online library, further enhances accessibility.Integration and Compatibility
Voice Dream Reader is compatible with both iOS and macOS, allowing synchronization of libraries, reading locations, bookmarks, and notes across all Apple devices. It also extends its functionality to Apple Watch, enabling remote control and reading from the wrist.Additional Benefits
- Productivity: The app helps busy professionals and students by allowing them to listen to documents and emails on the go, enhancing multitasking capabilities.
- Language Learning: It aids language learners by reading texts in different languages, improving pronunciation and comprehension.
- Relaxation: Users can listen to novels or articles for leisure, reducing eye strain and enhancing relaxation.