Readout: TTS Book Reader

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About this app

Turn any book, article, or PDF document into an immersive personal audiobook with Readout!

Readout is a premium, high-fidelity offline text-to-speech (TTS) reader designed for comfort and focus. Whether you are commuting, doing chores, exercising, or just resting your eyes, Readout reads your documents aloud using natural-sounding local speech voices.

Key Features:
- Natural Offline Text-to-Speech (TTS): Reads your text offline using high-quality local neural voices. No network charges, no tracking, complete privacy.
- Support for Multiple Formats: Seamlessly import e-books (EPUB), PDF documents, Word files (DOCX), HTML articles, or plain text (.txt).
- Web Link Import: Scrape and parse full-text content directly from Wikipedia and web article URLs.
- Quick Presets: Copy-paste raw text or load pre-built flow-state articles to start listening immediately.
- Real-time Word Highlighting: Follow along with our sleek karaoke-style visual reader. The spoken sentence is emphasized, and the active word is highlighted.
- Custom Library & Collections: Organize your documents into custom collections, toggle favorites, and keep track of your reading progress.
- Rich Listening Controls: Adjust playback speed, use the sleep timer panel, and customize covers for your files.

Why Readout?
- Rest Your Eyes: Reduce screen time by listening to long documents.
- 100% Offline & Private: All text-to-speech processing happens locally on your mobile device.
- Minimalist, Premium Design: OLED-optimized dark interface with smooth transitions and curated book cover layouts.

What’s new

- Migrated the application's overall accent styling to a premium Royal Blue theme.
- Added typographic-driven minimalist book cover system with curated vertical gradients.
- Enhanced Active Player and MiniPlayer controls for a cleaner visual layout.
- Integrated the Google Play In-App Review API for seamless user ratings.
- Fixed document format badges to correctly identify local files versus URL bookmark imports.