Please update to version 4.14.5 from the App Store if you are experiencing the "Loading" issue. A fix has been released. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Voice Dream Reader now supports human narrated audiobooks from Bookshare. iOS update is out. macOS update will be out in a day or 2. Note that there're no chapter names: that data is not available in the original files. Enjoy!

Looks like Eloquence voices are coming to iOS 16 and macOS Ventura. There're 8 voices: Eddy, Flo, Grandma, Grandpa, Reed, Rock, Sandy and Shelley. Does anyone know these names? Is there a favorite?

If a sighted person wants to learn speed-reading, should they start with Eloquence voices? Or should they start with a more natural TTS voice, speed up and then graduate to Eloquence voices?

Just released an update to macOS Reader. Now you can save speech to an audio file! Plus, support for macOS Ventura for the brave. Ventura comes with Eloquence voices plus a bunch of other terrific new voices. The first beta is a rough but usable.

iOS 16's Text To Speech is unusable. Whenever it encounters an acronym like "CNN" or a quotation mark, the highlight starts to drift. This bug also causes all kinds of secondary problems. Please do not update to iOS 16.0 if you use any of the iOS voices.

This is the problem: You send the iOS TTS engine a chunk of text to read, and the engine tells you in real time which word it’s reading. That’s how Voice Dream knows, and remembers where you are in a document. So the problem is more than just highlighting.

If you use Speak Selection or Speak Screen, you’ll run into bugs. I did. The root cause is the same. VoiceOver only speaks short phrases so it’ll probably be okay.

Voices from Acapela Group come to the Mac Reader! These include some favorites like Sharon in US English and Manon in French. Subscribers get all voices in a language of your choice at no additional charge.

iOS Reader, Writer and Scanner are on sale now. iOS Reader is 40% off, and Scanner and Writer are 50% off. Sale ends January 1 2023. apps.apple.com/app/id496177674

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