Evie - The eVoice book reader

Alfred Faltiska

In-app purchases

About this app

GIVE YOUR EYES A MUCH NEEDED REST
Evie uses Text To Speech (TTS) technologies to transform written text into an audible narration.

Evie is free. Really free, without any ads.
You can use for as long as you want, with any Text To Speech engine you have on your phone.

ENJOY THOSE BOOKS FOR WHICH YOU NEVER HAD TIME
• Listen to a book while commuting
• Listen to a book during your work-out
• When working in your garden
• Or go to sleep listening to a book

AUDIO PLAYER FEATURES
• Evie can read out loud even in background or with the screen turned off.
• You can control playback with your earphones buttons, either Bluetooth or wired.
• Evie integrates with your car stereo via Bluetooth. Play, Pause and Skip Forward or Backward from your car's buttons.
• You can control it from your lock screen or from the notifications drawer.
• Evie offers an Equaliser to fine tune the sound the way you like it.

DISCOVER AN APP YOU CAN TRUST
Evie does not require any permissions to run.
It does not need access to your files, your contacts, or any other information and it does not read nor store cookies on your phone.

TRY THE LIFE-LIKE AMAZON VOICES
Evie integrates with Polly, the excellent TTS engine from Amazon.
Polly is a cloud service that uses deep learning technologies to synthesize speech that sounds like a human voice.

This is a paid feature, and requires an Evie account.
Evie offers simple in-app purchases in a pay-as-you-go model.

LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH EVIE
Have Evie repeat each sentence multiple times, then optionally wait for you to repeat.
The key to speaking the language is memorization through repetition.

READ A BOOK IN A LANGUAGE YOU DON'T KNOW
Evie can translate each sentence on the fly, then read the translation out loud to you.
Evie uses the excellent Amazon Neural translation engine, supporting more than 70 languages.

This is a paid feature, and requires an Evie account.
Evie offers simple in-app purchases for in a pay-as-you-go model.
You can use for free, with any TTS engine installed on your phone, if you don't want to use the Amazon voices.

SUPPORTED FILE TYPES
• ePub electronic books (DRM free)
• PDF documents (without encryption)
• MOBI, AZW and AZW3 books (DRM free)
• FB2 and Compressed FB2
• Microsoft DOCX documents
• Rich Text (RTF) documents
• HTML pages
• TEXT documents

MORE APPLICATION FEATURES
Evie offers an advanced text re-flow option allowing you to comfortably read PDF files on small screen device.

Evie can open files from your phone or directly from the Internet and has easy to use and robust library management features.

Evie offers the easiest management of Text To Speech voices.
Evie remembers your TTS Engine and Voice preferences per language and switches voices automatically to match the book's language.

Evie allows you to customize speech speed and the length of pause at punctuation marks in sentence and at the end of sentences, so you can perfectly adapt the speech to your style.

Evie has a very easy to use sleep timer feature.
Activate it with a single swipe and then Evie will stop reading after the selected time.
After the timer ran out, you can always re-start it with a simple press of your earphones button.

Evie calculates the remaining listening time with high precision for the current chapter and for the entire book.

Download Evie now and enjoy a good book.

Ratings and reviews

Once you get the right voice, this app is a very nice read along companion that has no limits to what you can have read to you. It's quite a nice app. You can open up quite the number of settings including a pronunciation guide for the reader. The interface is a little complicated, but you can learn it rather quickly. One thing that I would really like fixed is that sometimes when a character stutters as in, "T-That's not true!" the reader will pronounce the "T" instead of blending it.

My most used app, and also the only app I've ever donated money to. I have gotten so much out of this free app (hence the donation). I love that I can seamlessly switch between reading and being read to. It makes getting things done so much more pleasant, as I don't have to interrupt my book to, say, hang laundry. When I'm not doing another task, I can switch from audio back right back to reading, unlike traditional audiobooks. I really can't praise this highly enough.

Evie is pretty good, not perfect. I found a Google voice that's fairly natural. The text conversion/extraction is good, sometimes a few errors, not a deal breaker. Better overall than my Kindle tablet text to voice conversion that only works for Kindle books with text to voice option. One thing though is I had to turn off the notifications. The same non-essential notification kept popping up. I'm happy I can listen to books and articles my Kindle doesn't read.

What's new

- You can now send plain text to Evie from any app
- Added the option to load a newer version of a book in your reading list
- Better compatibility with the CerePlay TTS engine
- Bug fixes and improvements