Discover the ultimate app for multitaskers: @Voice Aloud Reader, designed to read aloud web pages, news articles, lengthy emails, TXT, PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, OpenOffice documents, EPUB, MOBI, PRC, AZW, and FB2 eBooks. Whether you want to read with your screen reader or listen to the text using the app’s read aloud capability, this versatile app caters to your every need.
Top Features:
- Read and listen to web pages and various local files, including text, PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, OpenOffice documents, and HTML files.
- Enjoy clutter-free web pages, with menus, navigation, ads, and other distractions removed.
- OCR (Optical Character Recognition) extracts text from PDFs where standard text extraction fails.
- Effortlessly share content from other apps or copy and paste text into @Voice Aloud Reader for seamless listening.
- Create and customize listening lists with multiple articles for continuous, uninterrupted playback.
- Experience eBooks with original formatting and images, either on-screen or by listening with headphones.
- Easily import saved Pocket articles to your @Voice reading list.
- Record spoken articles as sound files in WAV (uncompressed) or OGG (compressed) formats.
- Access dictionaries, translations, Wikipedia, and web search with a long-press on any word or phrase.
- Enhance speech with TTS correction, including optional use of Regular Expressions (RegEx).
- Adjust speech generator volume, pitch, and speech rate to your preference.
- Conveniently pause, resume, or skip through content using wired or Bluetooth headset buttons.
Pro Features:
- No ads
- Recording to sound files has an option to continue automatically through the entire reading list or ebook. Free version stops recording after finishing each article from the list or each ebook chapter.
- Use tags with speech replacements, under the Settings menu – Edit speech. One could have separate sets of speech replacements e.g. for scientific articles, fiction etc., and easily switch them with these tags.
- Other Premium features may be added to the app with time.
You can upgrade to the pro version here.
View on Google Play StoreFree or paid:
- Free with in-app purchase
Accessibility and User Comments:
The app is accessible. All the buttons are labeled. Whether you want to navigate the text using your screen reader or use the read-aloud feature of the app, the choice is yours as both options are accessible.
When selecting the TTS engine you want to use for reading aloud, you will hear a sample text read through this engine so you can make sure that it will work without issues. Make sure not to select the same TTS engine that you are using as your system TTS so no conflict occurs if you want to use your screen reader and the read-aloud feature simultaneously. For Jieshuo users, this also applies to the TTS engine that you are using as Jieshuo's TTS engine if it differs from the system TTS.
Although the app has a sort of automatic language switching capability, it is advisable to use tools like AutoTTS or Voicify if you want to achieve sentence or character-based language recognition as the reading TTS engine
on the bottom of the screen, below the area where the text is displayed, you find the playback controls. The next button moves you forward one sentence, and the previous button moves you back one sentence. Long-pressing either button takes you to the next/previous chapter. Pressing the show/hide setup button hides and unhides additional buttons used for things like speech rate, volume, TTS engine, etc.
When navigating the text using your screen reader, long-press any text to get more options like translate and copy.
The app's developer takes accessibility seriously. Although the app is not primarily designed as a blind-related app, a section of the settings is dedicated to accessibility.
Last Tested App version and Android version:
App version: 29.0.22
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