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This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad

Price: $2.99

Category: Productivity

Updated: May 14, 2012

Version: 2.2.0

Size: 52.8 MB

Seller: Winston Chen

Rated 4+

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad.Requires iOS 5.0 or later.


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Voice Dream Reader by Voice Dream

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Description

Looking for a text-to-speech app for your iPad or iPhone? look no further. This is the best in the app store with by far the highest customer ratings. Buy it now at the low introductory price of $2.99.

Catch-up on your reading anywhere, anytime, with text-to-speech. Now you can listen to articles, blog posts, reports, papers, and books using the best available text-to-speech technology. The voice is clear and natural.

This is the right app for you if you spend a lot of time commuting or exercising, and want to catch up on reading that you normally can't find time for.

It is also the right app for you if you're an auditory person and prefer listening to reading. Articles are stored locally for offline listening.

The app comes with a female American English voice. You can buy additional voices for English, or for Spanish, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Catalan, Polish, Turkish, Greek, and Arabic. All together 52 voices are available. The cost is 0.99 USD or equivalent per voice.

Features:

- Download cleaned-up web articles from Pocket (Read It Later)
- Download cleaned-up web articles from Instapaper (Requires subscription account)
- Extract text from PDF, ePub, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Apple Pages, RTF, HTML and plain text files
- Import files directly from Dropbox
- Extract text from a Web page directly with a built-in browser
- Add new articles using copy and paste
- Translate articles (using translation credits, that can be purchased in the app).
- Read using a playlist
- Highlight words and line of text as they're spoken
- Edit articles
- Light and dark color themes

Limitations
- The app cannot load books from iBooks or Kindle. Third party apps are not allowed to access the content in these apps.

This app will be actively maintained and enhanced.

iOS 5.0 or greater required.

What's New in Version 2.2.0

- New light color theme with a different font
- Highlighting the current line of text in addition to word being spoken
- Increased maximum font size
- Enabled audio remote control
- Scrolling freely while the app is reading. Use two finger tap to get back to text being read.
- Advancing directly to last reading location after loading article (Go to Bookmark button is gone).
- Built-in dictionary (English only). Accessed by pressing and hold on a word.
- New article icons to indicate progress in an article
- Improved processing of Web page articles

Customer Reviews

Excellent Text-To-Speech application! (5 stars)
Voice Dream Reader is a very worthy contender in the T. T. S. application category. It already has many features programmed in, and there will likely be more features added to this innovative app.

Not mentioned in previous reviews, the application can open a new document directly from the clipboard of you iDevice. There are numerous other applications that can "Open In" Voice Dream. So, getting reading material into the ap

Excellent Text-To-Speech application! (5 stars)
Voice Dream Reader is a very worthy contender in the T. T. S. application category. It already has many features programmed in, and there will likely be more features added to this innovative app. A recently added feature is more sensitive control for the reading speed.

Not mentioned in previous reviews, the application can open a new document directly from the clipboard of you iDevice. There are numerous other applications that can

Well done (5 stars)
I love the integration with Instapaper.

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