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Voice Dream - Read Aloud lets you listen to PDFs, textbooks, Web pages, emails, and books using advanced AI Text To Speech!\n\nFeatured by Apple as Best New App and App of the Day in 81 countries. Voice Dream - Read Aloud is also part of App Store Permanent Collections in Education.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n“Both experts recommend Voice Dream Reader as the best app in the text-to-speech space.” - Wired\n\n“This app is one of the best educational finds of my entire career.” - Forbes\n\n“As a user myself and as a mother of a child with dyslexia, I am blown away by the features of Voice Dream.” - Quartz\n\n“Voice Dream Reader is hailed by many as the best mobile text-to-speech (TTS) app.” - Examiner\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nText-to-Speech \n- 36 built-in iOS voices in 27 languages are also available for free.\n- 200+ additional premium voices in 30 languages from Acapela, NeoSpeech and Ivona available.\n- Correct pronunciation with your own pronunciation dictionary.\n- All voices work offline and play in the background even with the screen locked.\n\nSupported Document Formats\n- PDF, Plain text, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, RTF, and Google Docs.\n- Textbooks\n- Web articles.\n- Bookshare Books.\n- EPUB eBooks. (DRM-free books only. Kindle, iBooks and most commercial eBook platforms are not supported.)\n- DAISY text-based books and audiobook.\n- Audiobooks in MP3, MP4 or zipped MP3 format.\n- Rich text and image support for all documents.\n\nBuilt-in Scanner\n- Scan paper documents with the camera for text-to-speech.\n- State-of-the-art A.I. is fast and accurate, even in poor lighting conditions.\n- Works entirely on device: No need for internet and your data stays private.\n- Only languages using Latin alphabets are currently supported.\n\nReading Styles\n- Tee-up a list of articles and play while you drive, walk or run.\n- Spoken word is highlighted to improve comprehension and retention.\n- Auto-scrolling and full screen, distraction-free mode to help reader focus.\n- Finger reading. For beginners to read by at running a finger under each word.\n- Pac-Man. 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