Speech Central AI Voice Reader

I love reading. I’ll pretty much read anything from articles to cereal boxes. I don’t know what it is, but I just love the process of gaining information anyway I can. Anyway, I also love to exercise. I go to the gym, I bike, I roller blade, I do everything short of palates. Well, I wanted to read articles while I was biking, since audiobooks just weren’t cutting it. I found a really good article I wanted to read, that I think was about the anatomy of blue whales. Of course, you can’t read an article and bike at the same time... not safely anyway. So, I pulled up the App Store to see if their were any good text to speech apps. I went through several, before I decided on this one. This is a very good app for me because I’m so fast paced and the read-along doesn’t go too slow. It goes at just the right pace I need to be able to listen and concentrate on the biking trail at the same time. Thank you so much for this awesome app!

2019 Nov 28 update: There were three updates in the last two weeks, the app no longer crashes in my use case scenario and devs even rewrote the settings screen to become part of the app instead of having it in iOS settings to apparently overcome an iOS limitation, and it no longer crashes either. Well done. Thank you. Newcomers - take a look at the settings screen there are a lot of tweaks you will find useful. 2019 Nov 13 original review: Really great and useful when works, but crashes every few minutes. The application simply closes, sometimes sound disappears few second prior to that. What is good though - it remembers the last paragraph and its a matter of two taps to get it reading again - tap the app icon and tap the book (improvement suggestion - make it one tap - resume the last book when the app opens). I use it on CarPlay with Waze running on the car screen and the app running on the phone screen, maybe it will help you debug. Please fix it so that I could justify buying Pro. One more observation - when I tap settings of Button Functions, tap on one of the buttons to see the list of options and then tap Back - I’m thrown out of the settings. The settings crash out. When I open the settings again - the changes made to settings seem to have been saved.

I struggle with reading because of adhd and possible dyslexia. school is difficult because I have to re-read a page at least 5 times before I understand it. I was doing a review over an article in forensic science and could not read the article for the life of me. I was getting frustrated and thought “I wish there was an app that would read it out loud to me” sure enough I went to the App Store, typed in ‘speech reader’ and found this. I immediately downloaded it and used it for the article I was trying to read. It read to me and a huge wave of relief came over me I wanted to cry. Reading is so hard for me and this app just basically saved my life for college lol. Thank you for creating this app, I appreciate it. The only down side is that I wish there were more voice options because the robotic voice gets a little annoying but I’ll take it!

Without this program I would not be able to complete the overwhelming amount of reading that is required for my college courses. You are able to upload articles, and texts on the fly using the upload icon provided on the browser! The program uses life-like voices as well as retains the articles for later, so that I can read as I see fit without reloading. Your program has helped me survive 4 heavy reading courses so far this year. Thank you!

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I paid for the $5 version hoping to have more flexibility with the functions for the voices and to clear up the issue with pronouncing words with Apostrophes. I mainly use the app to speak pdf cases. It reads the footers, superscripts, page numbers etc. It doesn’t recognize page separations and will read the text of the downloaded information mid sentence. Which is distracting to listening to the content. I have my phone set to Siri Female and it doesn’t use it. Would love to use Ava Enhanced even. It “computerized” voice is not soft to the ear. Overall not what I was expecting. Update: You are very defensive in your responses. I do not need tech support. I am aware of all of your responses. I’ve changed the voices to various voices (including Alex) and they’re all robotic in nature. As described by other reviewers. I updated the rating because it does work a lot better in the car reading through the media center. I do not experience the same problems as listening directly from my phone. So these issues may be isolate to mobile use. If this app is unable to read documents or pdfs without reach the page numbers or footnotes etc then that’s a design issue. The app has the potential to be a huge revenue generating product. Especially if it is able to save students time.