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

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.

Does exactly as it claims. Reads PDF so I am able to focus better during my studies and haven't had any issues with it skipping lines or paragraphs and it even reads the statistical results, which is kind of funny. Not sure where it supposedly said that webpage or certain documents could be read but for what I paid, it was well worth getting an application that actually does what it says it will do. More languages would be helpful

Dear Voice Dream Reader Technical Team, I hope this message finds you well. I would like to bring to your attention an important issue affecting the usability of your app for blind users. When TalkBack is turned on, Voice Dream Reader automatically pauses and does not function as expected. However, when TalkBack is off, the app works normally. This creates a significant barrier for visually impaired users who rely on both TalkBack an your reader.

What’s new

Fixed an issue openning documents imported from older versions.
Accessiblity improvements
Stability improvements