Voice Reader Speech Central

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About this app

Feature set that exceeds the competition, no subscription for the premium tier with the free tier limited by the quantity not by the quality, that is the reason why you'll love Speech Central.

Many thanks to Google Play team for featuring Speech Central in over 65 countries thus far!

The app implements state of the art features for voice readers:
◦ The best PDF support in text to speech apps - your reading flow will not be interrupted by footers, headers, footnotes and long web links as they are detected by the advanced artificial intelligence in most cases. You can even read scanned files as OCR is built-in.

◦ The best web support in text to speech (tts) apps - for the first time you can listen everything as both articles and headlines (including RSS feeds) are supported. Articles can be added from the headlines page for fully uninterrupted flow or from Chrome. And you can send articles from the desktop browser with the Pocket extension.

◦ The widest support for documents/office and e-book formats.

◦ Knowledge and text annotation tools built-in.

◦ The widest choice of options to customize the voice, appearance and various other parameters.

◦ Export the text with annotations to .docx format

◦ Functions of audio buttons can be customized for high productivity and accessibility. The widest selection of tools to control the speed and browse the text that is read aloud.

◦ The app can be used with dozens of languages that have text-to-speech support on the device with automatic language detection from the content for all major languages.

◦ Export the text to the audio file.

◦ The app is completely free for the blind people. It is tested to be accessible by legally blind users.

◦ Highest security and privacy standards. No ads and no spyware. Your data stays truly private, we collect only analytics data with no identifiable reference to the user or imported content. Just check required permissions and compare to other apps!

With over 20,000 items sold and user ratings over 4 on all major stores Speech Central is one of the world's most popular and loved brands in text-to-speech. It was nominated for the best iOS accessible app in 2020 and 2017 on AppleVis, picked for the Best of Windows Store in 2014.

For many years there was a dream of the easy to use, well made and affordable app that would read the text aloud. And now you can use Speech Central to speechify the text for you!

You can save an hour each day by using the text to speech (tts) while commuting, walking, running, doing the housework, etc. You'll also save eyes for better things while having your battery last significantly longer. Keeping the screen off grants that you won't get into the internet addiction and waste your time on unwanted things, and thus it can also help to people with ADHD. As a bonus, even if your internet connection is unstable you won't notice any interruptions.

The voice reader can be used as an assistive technology and helper for people with visual impairments (eyesight problems) and disabilities like dyslexia.

Supported document types are: PDF (including scanned documents), Microsoft Word (.docx), Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx), OpenOffice/LibreOffice (.odt, .odp), .html, .txt, .rtf, supported ebook formats are .epub, DAISY and .fb2 and emails in .eml format.

Overall, the best 'peech app out there!

Get the app now and enjoy the most convenient text to speech!

Notes:
- The free version has a daily/monthly limitation in the number of articles/books that you can add to it which is removed by purchasing the Pro add-on.
- Some features are available only on the latest version of Android.
- The add-on license is valid only for the Android platform.
- DRM protected books (e.g. Kindle books) are locked to their respective vendor apps and cannot be imported into the app.

Ratings and reviews

To put it bluntly, this app is good, but the kinks need to be worked out. To give some backstory about my experience with books, I have a hard time keeping my attention with them to the point where I would have to rely on an audiobook to have someone read the book for me. Problem is, I started listening to full-cast audiobooks, and as a result, I have trouble listening to single-narrated audiobooks. But being a user of the Kindle and using their ebooks, with some audiobooks, they not only offer books in ebook form, but can also offer the audiobook at a reduced price, and when you own both of them, if you just want to read the book but need help following along, the Kindle will highlight the word of the audiobook is saying to you, and it's helped me follow along the story of my choice. But the problem with that method, is that not every book has an audiobook, and for those that do, it can hurt your wallet after awhile. I will not mention another app that I have been using before I found this one, but I was looking for an alternative to this certain app I've been using before this one, and while it did what it was supposed to do, my trial run was about to run out and they were asking for a very high subscription price that I couldn't afford. So doing some window shopping, I found this app, and after taking a test run, it did everything I wanted it to do, to the point where I automatically made the jump and bought the full version of this app and have been using it ever since. Now here's where the kinks come in, when I first started using the app, there were times where the word that was supposed to be narrated by the app would not be highlighted and I didn't know why it wouldn't, but I eventually found a workaround to that problem. I figured out that the words would only be highlighted if a female voice did it and not a male one, but I picked out en-US-language English out of the dropbox, as opposed to Random (Prefer High Quality), and it works without any problems. Now here's another problem I'm having with this app, sometimes when I open a book I want to read, the app will not open the book no matter how many times I click on the book title. I have to restart the app multiple times until I can get it to open the book. This is obviously gonna have to be something that you guys are gonna need to fix down the road. Other than not opening the book until I restart it a few times, this will become my new app for reading books down the road. Thank you.

I have macular degeneration so reading text is hard and I have my devices read news articles aloud. Speech Central is by far my favorite app for this.easy to use, love the voices, I'm able to set the reading speed a little faster than standard so I can move more quickly through the articles. The developer (Ivan) is exceptionally responsive to support requests. I use speech Central both on Android and iOS.

Very useful app. Love the quality. Only downside is you can't adjust the pause between sentences and the default is a little too long. Edit: recent update has improved the delay but it's still significantly longer than a natural pause. It really needs to be adjustable.

What's new

Improved reaction on phone call interruption on newer devices