Speech Central AI Voice Reader

Speech Central AI Voice Reader

Text to audio: Book, PDF, Web

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publisher
category
price
Free (IAP)
Reviews
4.6 (999)
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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Works a lot better after the latest update.

Updating as the developer replied and the app is a lot more stable now specially after disabling sync. Not sure why it was enabled by default in the first place given how buggy that setting makes the app. It’s a good app giving 4 stars as the app still has a few rough edges specially around playback controls with AirPods.

brdude1986Tue, Apr 23, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Could be 5 stars

I really want to give the app 5 stars, but there’s just a few too many bugs that makes usability less than ideal. The two worse ones for me are: - The app very often just freezes and needs to be force closed, this is particularly bad when you switch between apps and something else needs to take over sound. - For no reason which I can find, if you stop playing or some times when the bug above triggers and you’re forced to close the app, it’ll rewind very far back. If it was just a paragraph or two it wouldn’t be so bad, but I’ve had it rewind multiple chapters. The chapter navigation being so deep in the menus just makes the above bug even worse.

brdude1986Wed, Apr 17, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Getting Better

This app is getting better and better every day. Thank you guys.

MAO_XPMon, Apr 15, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Better than Voice Dream

I have used all mobile apps that can possibly relate to text to speech reading, but they all are either 1. Making users pay subscription, even then, you’re not guaranteed to have the app working for some weird reason : or 2. Not receptive to feedback when received from users. An app always requires a feedback from users. An app should always be up for receiving feedback whether good or bad, to improve the overall quality and performance. Highly recommend this app!

It makes you think a lotFri, Apr 5, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Switched from Voice Dream

Found this app after looking for an alternative to Voice Dream Reader which I used loyally for 10 plus years. The developer sold that app and the new owner immediately shafted all legacy customers and users by demanding an $80 yearly subscription otherwise disabling the app through the latest update. Classic bait and switch. This was shocking to everybody. That app was fantastic in terms of its functionality. This new app is a great successor in many ways, but there is a long way to go to reach the standard set by VDR. Hoping the developer will enable the downloading of voices from Acapella to start with. I’m also hoping he will enable the presentation of PDF documents in their original format like VDR.

MikmeisterMon, Apr 1, 2024
United StatesUnited States

User Manual

This app has no user manual. The help files do not assist in using the app itself. I emailed the developer and he stated that the app has hints built into it so the user can learn how to use the app. There are not hints for each feature. There are numerous features that I have no idea what they do. So you basically have to guess your way through the app until you learn how to use it yourself. This is ridiculous. I wish I would have never purchased the app.

rwscullMon, Apr 1, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Love the app

Updated: It is the shame that I didn't know Speech Central until now - just deleted Dream Voice and continue my journey here. Function-wise, 2 apps are 90% comparable. 1 key features that currently missing: 1. Customizable sleep timer (the concept of night mode is good but I haven't got it working and the design and control can be more intuitive. For me sleep timer is 100x more often used than fast speed). 2 more trivial ones: Manage files while have the book reading at background; only highlight the line but not the word when reading (I have to set them in the same color as a bad workaround). Can we consider adding these features please? Thanks in advance!

kolytihMon, Apr 1, 2024
United StatesUnited States
Download & Revenue
DOWNLOAD 27.3KMar 2024Worldwide
REVENUE$2.4KMar 2024Worldwide
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About
Bundle Id
com.labsii.speechcentral
Min Os. Version
16.0
Release Date
Thu, Sep 29, 2016
Update Date
Sat, Apr 20, 2024
Content Rating
4+
Has IMessage
No
Support Watch
Yes
Support Siri
No
File Size
19.91MB
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
15.0.1
updated
1 week ago
OpenAI added as a voice provider
Top In-App Purchases

Name

Price

Speech Central Pro
$9.99
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