Legere Reader

Legere Technologies LLC

In-app purchases

About this app

Legere Reader is an accessible reading tool for mobile and tablet devices. With advanced text-to-speech and a highly configurable screen layout, it can be tailored to suit every reading style from completely auditory to completely visual, plus synchronized combination of both.

The visually impaired will benefit from the ability to hear documents read in their favorite voices; students and others with dyslexia will appreciate the synchronized reading capability that integrates text and voice; and everyone who wants to hear or read their documents in their own way will benefit from the configurability of the visual and voice capabilities.

Legere Reader supports reading PDF, DRM-free EPUB and DAISY eBooks and more. It can load files from file sharing apps like DropBox, Box and OneDrive, or directly from your local device. It has direct integration with the Bookshare book-sharing service.

FEATURES

Voice Reading
- Listen to documents like it's music, with play-pause button, gestures or remote control
- Continues reading when you lock the screen
- Change voice and reading speed (50-700 words per minute) on the fly
- Remembers the voice and speech rate used for each document

Visual Reading
- Switch between original layout and text-only view for PDF documents
- Synchronized word and line highlighting
- Improve focus with reduced text area and auto-scrolling
- Customizable font including OpenDyslexia font
- Font size up to 80 points for low vision users
- Adjustable margin, line spacing and character spacing
- 3 fully customizable color themes

Getting Content
- Word .doc files converted to and imported as PDF
- Word .docx, RTF, .mobi convert to and imported as ePub
- Text extraction from PDF, Plain text, and HTML files
- Text extraction from DRM-free ePub and DAISY books
- DAISY audiobooks, and audiobooks as zipped MP3 files
- Store and view PDF documents in original layout
- Dropbox, Box and OneDrive or any app which can share supported files
- Bookshare and Gutenberg
- Built-in Web Browser to download files
- Folders for organizing content
- Export full text, highlights, and notes

Navigating
- Navigation by sentence, paragraph, page, chapter, highlights, bookmarks, 15, 30, and 60 seconds
- Remembers speech and visual location where you stopped
- Bookmarking, text highlighting and note taking
- Full-text search

Voices
- Any builtin voice already on the device
- Premium voices from Acapela 24 languages available through in-app purchase
- Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Catalan, Polish, Turkish, Greek, Arabic, Romanian, Icelandic and Welsh.

Important Notes:
- It is not possible to load DRM-protected books from iBooks, Kindle and Nook.
- Word level highlighting is not supported for builtin voices

Ratings and reviews

Terrible mechanical sounding voices. I purchased on a recommendation and the voices sound good in preview but after you download you find they are terrible in actual use. I can't get a refund apparently because it says it's not supported by Google play store. So why is it available there? Luckily it was only $8 so I'll just deal with it. But I do not recommend it.

My phone just allowed your program to update. Now just like the last time your guys program updated it won't run. I uninstalled then reinstalled the program. Now it works but it erased all my books. That is not really a problem and otherwise I am prity satisfied with the program. Hi again. Your program just updated and just like last time it's buggy. When I'm reading an epub anytime there's a double space between paragraphs it stops reading. Then i have to go into the program to start again.

I like this app very much, but one major problem I don't understand has me giving it 3 stars. When listening to both PDFs & ebooks, the reader intermittently stops for no apparent reason. Usually, I like to listen while I do something else (drive, wash dishes), so having to periodically start the book playing again is pretty bothersome.

What’s new

Importer performance improvements.
Various bug fixes.