@Voice: Text to Speech Reader

Hyperionics Technology

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About this app

@Voice Aloud Reader turns text into spoken audio. It reads PDFs, eBooks, web pages, documents, and pasted text in dozens of languages. Whether you are commuting, exercising, cooking, or resting your eyes, @Voice keeps you learning and reading hands-free.

Read almost anything aloud
Open PDFs, EPUB and AZW3 eBooks, Word documents, HTML files, and plain text. Browse the web with the built-in reader, which removes ads and clutter so you hear the article, not the page. Share a link or text from any app and @Voice will read it or save it for later. Legally open and read eBooks protected with LCP DRM technology, including titles from ebooks.com.

Desktop to phone with @Voice Connector
Install the free browser extension for Chrome, Edge, Brave, or Firefox. Send any web page or selected text to your phone for instant listening, or queue it for later. Reader Mode cleans the page before upload.

Translate and learn languages
Translate articles and pages with Google Translate support, then listen in the target language. The bilingual view shows original and translated text together, with a separate voice for each language. Listen to both languages sentence by sentence, or use Back and Forward to choose which language is spoken.

Dialog voices for books and stories
Assign different voices to narrators and characters so books sound more like audiobooks. The dialog-detection wizard analyzes quote styles and sets up alternating voices automatically. Save named voice groups and adjust engine, rate, pitch, and volume per character.

AI assistant and reference tools
Send the text you are reading to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and similar tools with a saved prompt for summaries or Q&A. Look up words in a dictionary, Google Translate, Wikipedia, or web search without leaving the reading view.

Record text to speech as audio files
Record what @Voice reads aloud and save it as MP3, OGG, or WAV. Great for creating audio versions of notes, articles, or study material you want to keep offline.

Accessibility and reading support
Includes the OpenDyslexic font, high-contrast and custom color themes, adjustable font size, word and sentence highlighting, and TalkBack support. PDF text extraction and OCR-aware reading make scanned documents listenable.

Comfortable, flexible listening
Set a sleep timer and restart it by shaking your phone. Use headset and Bluetooth buttons to play, pause, skip, or drop bookmarks without looking at the screen. Add extra pauses between sentences or articles.

Organize your reading
Create reading lists for news, books, study, and work. Track progress per item and auto-advance to the next article. Import batches of links, sync files from Dropbox, or follow multi-part web fiction automatically.

Great voices without a subscription
Unlike apps that lock quality voices behind monthly plans, @Voice works with the free TTS voices already on your device, including Google TTS and Samsung TTS. Want more options? Install additional voice engines from Google Play. For premium AI cloud voices, bring your own API key from Google Cloud, Microsoft, or Amazon and pay only for what you use. Fine-tune speech rate, pitch, and volume. Create custom pronunciation rules so names, abbreviations, and technical terms are spoken correctly, and sync your rules across devices.

Reading, studying, and listening in one app
With text-to-speech, translation, bilingual reading, AI lookups, audio recording, and bookmark management, @Voice is a complete listening tool for people who read a lot and want to do it by ear.

Immersive reading
For improved concentration, read along on screen or with a printed copy while @Voice reads aloud. On screen, it highlights the spoken sentence or word. Many people find this read-and-listen method feels like watching a movie with subtitles.

No account required. No subscription. No data collection. A one-time Premium purchase removes ads and unlocks a home-screen widget and direct web-link handling.

Ratings and reviews

I've been using this app for a long time. it's simple, does what I need it to do, no annoying subscriptions. My only gripe is how depending on which region the voice you choose to do the reading is from, they have various ways they say things. I liked how UK English sounded but after a while of dealing with "Zed" it got annoying. USA is alright, except now I have a Lt. character and USA pronounces that add "gov lieutenant governor". Just say lieutenant!!! it's TWO letters! don't add 2 words!!!

I've lowered my rating because the ads are becoming unmanageable. There's fake x's that appear and when you tap them it forces other apps to open. There's a button that forces you to visit play store to get out of the ad. There needs to be clear ways to close out of the ads without it being a scam to make you press things you don't want to press!! It's scamming data by making people unwittingly visit sites that they had no intention of visiting!! I'm so sick of seeing shein!!

I am dealing with an error that whenever I press play, audio doesn't start, and a menu pops up saying "select how to manage voices:". I try and select a different option than "Use our voice manager" and nothing happens. I discovered you need to have another app open from the side panel to get the menu to appear. Anyway, the Voice manager for some reason says I don't have the English voice installed so I checked to fix that and I installed the English voices but nothing changed.

What’s new

Ver. 40.0.0
* New option to convert PDF files to much cleaner, much better form for reading and listening, with AI. It's "bring your own API key" and the cost of such conversion may vary from 0.5 cent to 10 cents per page, depending on selected AI model, text density, AI prices etc. The old "built in" conversion is still available, as always, at no cost.
* Stability and performance improvements.