Winston Chen (family photo below), a Boston-area man and a middle-aged IBM alum, created VoiceDream during a year’s stay on an Arctic island where his wife was teaching. At $10 it’s more expensive than the average app but provides enough value to justify the cost. Even based solely on text-to-speech performance, in fact, this category of software can disappoint.Įnter the Voice Dream Reader app for iPads, iPhones and iPod touches. But I can’t revisit already-viewed text quickly enough while I’m hearing audio by way of the Moon-Ivona combo.Ī special read-aloud program isn’t the ultimate answer, either, since I’ll then be stuck with a weak app for general use. I myself like the Moon+ Reader Pro Android app, and I’m in love with the added-on “Amy” voice, a British-accented delight from another developer, Ivona, now an arm of Amazon. Even if it does, we can’t control the aural part as closely as we’d prefer. The usual e-bookware doesn’t always come with or work with text to speech capabilities.
#Already purhcased ivona voice for android update
Note: An update of this post on Librar圜ity.org focuses on education-related issues of read-aloud apps.Ī Catch-22 dogs those of us who most often read e-books visually but also want to hear them when we’re exercising or driving.