Speech Central AI Voice Reader

Speech Central AI Voice Reader

Text to audio: Book, PDF, Web

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category
price
Free (IAP)
Reviews
4.6 (973)
United States United States
Description
Text to audio: Book, PDF, Web
Feature set that exceeds the competition, no subscription for the premium tier with the free tier that can be customised to be limited by the quantity or by the quality, that is the reason why you'll love Speech Central. Here are just some of our outstanding features: 

◦ The best text-to-speech experience - our proprietary engine significantly enhances the output of Apple's voices and AI voices by infusing their readings with emotion and variation. 

◦ The best PDF support in text to speech apps - your reading flow will not be interrupted by footers, headers, footnotes, in text citations and long web links as they are detected by the advanced artificial intelligence in most cases. No other app has all those features. Even the scanned PDF documents are imported with titles recognised.

◦ The best web support in text to speech apps - for the first time you can listen everything as both articles and headlines (including RSS feeds) are supported. Articles can be added from the headlines page for fully uninterrupted flow or from Safari. And you can send articles from the desktop browser with the Pocket extension.

◦ The widest support for documents/office and e-book formats.

◦ Knowledge and text annotation tools built-in.

◦ Import the text from the physical books with the camera.

◦ The widest choice of options to customize the voice, appearance and various other parameters.

◦ Sync playlist items across Apple devices including with the macOS app and the current position in the text.

◦ Apple Watch app that can play the content independently of the main app.

◦ Export the text with annotations to .docx format

◦ Functions of audio buttons can be customized for high productivity and accessibility. The widest selection of tools to control the speed and browse the text that is read aloud.

◦ The app can be used with dozens of languages that have text-to-speech support on the device with automatic language detection from the content.

◦ Export the text to the audio file.

◦ The best in class accessibility. It is completely free when used with VoiceOver and tested to be accessible by legally blind users.

◦ Your data stays truly private, we collect only analytics data with no identifiable reference to the user or imported content even when the syncing is enabled.

◦ Track the Mindfulness time in the Health app

The app is installed on over 250,000 devices and with consistent ratings above 4 stars Speech Central it is one of the leading global text-to-speech brands. It was nominated for the best iOS accessible app in 2020 and 2017 on AppleVis, the leading authority in the field of accessibility on Apple devices.

By moving your reading activities to commuting, walking, running, doing the housework or another activity you can save an hour each day. You'll also save eyes for better things while having your battery and data plan last significantly longer. Keeping the screen off grants that you won't get into the internet addiction and waste your time on unwanted things, and thus it can also help people with ADHD. 

The app can be used as an assistive technology and helper for people with visual impairments (eyesight problems) and disabilities like dyslexia.

Supported document types are: PDF (including scanned documents), Microsoft Word (.docx), Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx), OpenOffice/LibreOffice (.odt, .odp), .html, .mhtml, .webarchive, .txt, .rtf. E-books in the .epub format are supported.

Get the app now and enjoy the most convenient text to audio!

Notes:
- The free version has a daily limitation in the number of articles that you can add to it which is removed by purchasing the Pro add-on.
- Some features are available only on the latest version of the operating system.
- The license is valid only for the iOS/watchOS. Other operating systems have separate licenses.
- DRM protected books (e.g. Kindle books) are locked to their respective vendor apps and cannot be imported into the app.
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I’m so thankful that this app understands that text to speech software is an accessibility tool and not a cash grab. With that being said, I bought premium even though I definitely didn’t need it to use this app. I usually use text to speech software on my pc, but I really also needed something portable that I could use with headphones. This app reads me PDFs in a decent voice. And some of the voices are a little rough but you can fix that by adjusting the pitch and speed. There are so many customizations that I was able to fine tune one of the free voices to sound really good. I also love that it saves your progress so that you can click back into the app and open up a PDF and continue reading where you left off. The few glitches that have come up are fixed quickly because the developer really cares about this project. The one time I reached out because of an issue it was already being fixed. Before this I was using the free iOS assessability feature for text to speech, but it usually stops reading a PDF halfway through the document and it’s a huge hassle to pick up where you left off. And then I’ve tried other apps, but it seems like everything else is very very very expensive, and has the same features as this app. Plus reading limits which as far as I’ve experienced this app doesn’t have. This is my dream app at a really good price. I am so thankful that this app exists.

California2019Wed, Mar 20, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Great app!

This is going to help me get through some more reading material! One thing I would ask, is some sort of alias system? There are certain words that are abbreviated in text and are just spelled out . Other words it is not familiar with. It would be great to have some sort of functionality where we could specify some mappings and then spell out phonetically so that when it gets to those words or abbreviations, they are pronounced in the right way. For instance, a lot of the books I read abbreviate st. for “Saint”. Being able to just create that substitution (just in voice, text can stay the same) would be so helpful for those that need it.

Quality reviewerFri, Feb 23, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Love app except bookmark feature

Love the app to read my pdfs, but I struggle with the usability of the bookmarks. I can bookmark a spot but there's no obvious option to return there upon reopening app. Sometimes it will go right to the bookmark and sometimes it doesn't. Would love to be able to search through the different bookmarks I've placed.

SieBies2013Thu, Feb 22, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Incredible app, astonishing price

This is such a valuable, well-designed, affordable app. It has everything, and more. I love that I can use the premium AI voices that Apple already makes available to iPhone users. Here's just one example of this app's incredible flexibility. The other day I was walking and wishing I could just double-squeeze one of my Airbuds to bookmark passages I wanted to return to. Well, two minutes of looking through the settings revealed that I could do just that! Amazing! Now I am more likely to just load the epub of a book I want into Speech Central, rather than buy the audiobook. Between the more-than-tolerable premium voice I use and the ability to bookmark passages on the go, the app is just so so valuable to me. I am very grateful to the app’s creator.

PGW3Sun, Feb 18, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Thank You So MUCH

I been looking you a App for my Story’s And This Saved My Life And This will be used Forever And I Use this for Audio Books

Ameera loves rise DonnieSat, Feb 17, 2024
United StatesUnited States

New update killed the app for me

Update for the developers sake: Since the dev responded I’ll reply. App still has troubles for websites for me. Lightnovelworld still won’t load the page even after waiting for 5 minutes. Royal road will show that its downloaded the web page but when I click on it, even several minutes later, it just instantly closes itself. PDFs however are working now for me. I’ve downloaded a few that I have uploaded to the app with great success, so I’m upping my review a star. I use this app to grab web stories and have them read while I am doing something else. This new update killed one of the websites I go to. The website is light novel world. Now when I share to speech central the app just keeps the dial spinning like it’s trying to load it and what once to a few seconds, now won’t even load ( and I’ve let it try for over an hour). Update: also when I upload a pdf or manage to get a different website page to load, I can’t even open it in the app, it just auto closes right after I open the file so it’s completely unusable Also I use it for reading on Royal road and it use to take like 30 chapters at once, which may have very well been unintended, but now it only takes one. I’ve tried redownloading, restarting my phone, different browsers, everything I can think of but nothing helps. What was one a great app was killed for me.

Ch0nkyThu, Feb 15, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Works well enough

This app works well enough to make getting through research papers a little quicker. The AI needs to continue to be updated though. It still picks up some of the footnotes and intent citation references, which make the listens a little longer than needed. The he biggest issue comes from misinterpreted letters or words. The app will not allow you to make corrections yourself either so you are stuck with broken words or a jumble of letters that no longer make sense when read aloud by the AI reader. Also, you are not able to remove sections of text that you do not want, so you have to slog through extra reading that may break up content and cause some confusion with sentence structure or the flow of ideas. As the technology continues to improve I hope the developers make updates to match newer AI readers.

Mr.AMBaconWed, Feb 14, 2024
United StatesUnited States
Download & Revenue
DOWNLOAD 23.9KFeb 2024Worldwide
REVENUE$2.6KFeb 2024Worldwide
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About
Bundle Id
com.labsii.speechcentral
Min Os. Version
16.0
Release Date
Thu, Sep 29, 2016
Update Date
Fri, Mar 22, 2024
Content Rating
4+
Has IMessage
No
Support Watch
Yes
Support Siri
No
File Size
19.59MB
Has Game Center
No
Family Sharing
Yes
Support Passbook
No
Supported Languages
English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Chinese, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish
What's New
version
14.6.5
updated
6 days ago
Support for images in .docx documents
Top In-App Purchases

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Price

Speech Central Pro
$9.99
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