Description
●● Reading out web pages online or offline with just one click, directly in the browser ●● 32 voices in 21 languages ●● Saving web pages offline ●● Comfortable text view without images and adverts ●● Voice Reader Web – the browser that goes further!
► 148 Apps (Jennifer Allen)
As a disability aid, Voice Reader Web looks to be fantastically useful. There are other benefits to for the likes of car drivers or people who just want to relax and listen to a website rather than read huge amounts of text. Audio segments can be saved in a variety of different formats too for later consultation. It’s an all round useful app indeed.
► Hot Mac Apps
Its integrated with a safari like browser and you can have any webpage read out loud to you in a choice of 21 different languages with 32 different voices. (4/5 ★★★★☆)
► The iPhone App Review (Luke Patrick)
However, Voice Reader Web’s real godsend is its ability to read any viewable website back to the user. All one has to do is slap the audible button along the bottom, and away Voice Reader Web goes, drawling out the text in the specified voice. Speaking of voices, there are currently 32 voices in 21 languages, each of which sounds pretty decent. (4/5 ★★★★☆)
► Mac How (Jim Shaw)
Some people absorb information quicker when they hear it and others when they are multitasking. If you are one of these people then this is the app for you.
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Use the professional Voice Reader Web to read web pages comfortably with its voice output, benefit from the optimized and fast view when website surfing on a small display and retain your favorite sites simply by pressing the save page offline button on your device. This is most important if no WLAN hotspot is nearby, or if you're going abroad.
Loyalty bonus for all Linguatec fans: If you already bought a Voice Reader Text-to-Speech offline voice, you can use it free of charge in Voice Reader Web!
Features:
● Professional speech output quality
● Comprehensive and expandable voice selection, choose among 32 online voices for 21 languages
Using the online voices you can have up to 4000 characters per website read out to you. When using the offline voices ($0.99 each), the number of characters you can have read out to you becomes limitless.
● Sophisticated reading options + pause function
● Fast and reader-optimized text mode
● Comfortable offline web page storage at the touch of a button
● Versatile adaptability of voices and browser: Read-out speed, pitch, volume, audio format (m4a, caf or wav) and quality (8, 16, 22 kHz), font, font size, night read-out mode, search engine selection, bookmarking.
● Intuitive user interface
● Expandable range of functions
Additional offline voice options with many benefits:
- INDEPENDENT: reading and creation of the audio data requires no internet connection
- UNRESTRICTED: there is no limit to the number of characters you can use for reading out
- FAST: generating the audio data happens on your own device.
- PROFESSIONAL: extra read-out options with marker function.
Note concerning Websites with secure login: Depending on the type of encryption unfortunately some websites can’t be displayed or read out with Voice Reader Web.
What's New in Version 1.2.0
Update for iOS 5.
Customer Reviews
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very good and useful app. I agree with some bugs at the beginning, but now it just great!
works fine. amazing good voice quality. very fast loading of the web sites in text view...
it is the exemplary application!
So-so
Too many accent mistakes in Russian. Boris voice is generally doing better then Olga.
Sometimes reads last word of a long sentence twice.
Sometimes skips text to the end of paragraph.
The more you use it the more flaws you'll find.
Works pretty well...
I bought this app as I have a competitor's Web Reader, but found it to have become unreliable, exhibiting quirkiness (eg skipping first sentences of all paragraphs! It clearly is in need of updates, as it didn't do that a year ago....).
I already have Linguatec's Voice Reader (and bought an off-line voice: that's VERY important, as both apps work better if you do). So I figured since I already had a voice (Kate, the Brit female), I thought I'd give their Web reader a spin.
I'm glad I did, as it works really well, much better than Voice Reader (PDF reader: perhaps the larger size of many PDFs accounts for it's boggy response). Like someone else mentioned above, the voice quality of Linguatec beats the competition (and even Apple's voice that's built-in to Safari with iOS 5 sounds robotish in comparison).
This app is not perfect, mind you, but it works the best of any apps in the text-to-voice category I've tried, offering great value (eg there's a $10 app, but I'm not spending that kind of money just to find out if they're better!)
Things I'd like to see added?
• it would be nice if the browser would respond to tapping of the upper menu bar like Safari, jumping to the top of the page. That would save a TON of scrolling!
• multi-tab browsing (important, if this is to be used as a replacement for Safari; it should offer at least the functionality of the native browser),
• option for auto-play after the page loads,
• As mentioned above, the ability to select where reading commences (or remember where reading left off. I know, these are not big concerns for web pages (which are smaller than 400 pg PDF files), as the app is responsive enough to tab to locate the paragraph you want, but it still would be nice...).
•PDF support (or make Voice Reader more responsive/snappier, like Voice Reader Web...)
• seems a bit of a waste of bandwidth and time for users to download 110MB of off-line voice data again (if you already bought a voice), if it already exists somewhere in the iPhone RAM?
- $1.99
- Category: Productivity
- Updated: Oct 20, 2011
- Version: 1.2.0
- Size: 13.0 MB
- Languages: English, German, Russian
- Seller: Linguatec GmbH
- © 2011 Linguatec
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
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