PDF Voice Reader - Docs Aloud

When I realized I could save some time having my phone read PDF files I needed to review weekly to me (they are unreadable because the screen is too small), I searched and found this program immediately. All I can say is, it’s nearly perfect: full control over voice and speed, it highlights the word as it reads it, making it easy to follow along, and doesn’t halt for no reason like the built in iPhone reading functionality does. Two improves might be, a) to allow me to read websites or sources not stored locally or in iCloud/Dropbox, and b) try to improve the pauses. The iOS voice reading system is kind of dumb, thinking that the period in 3.14 is a period in a sentence and requires a pause, and line feeds (which signify a new section in the text) should certainly get a pause as they are not part of the sentence in the line above. But very good work. Best of all it’s a one-time purchase, not an ongoing subscription.

I use this program so I can listen to pdf versions of my school books. It saves so much time I wouldn’t be able to do as well without it. It’s handy being able to wash dishes out mow the lawn while basically going thorough college. However it reads tables down which makes the information nearly indecipherable and it mispronounces many simple words so I have to use context a little more to understand what the program is speaking. I’ll keep using it because I need it but it could definitely use an upgrade. Thanks for a great product!

The app has nearly everything you’d want! BUT the developers need (1) to fix 3 consistent bugs and (2) add a function or two. - This app lacks arrows indicating page ‘back’ and ‘forward’ (allowing the reader to skip to the next page or go back a page at a time). In place of arrows, it allows readers to *attempt* to navigate to the next or previous pages *while* the voice is reading the document by scrolling back or forward, but this function is laden with bugs. — Glitch #1: scrolling FORWARD to next page *while* listening to the document being read ALWAYS skips *2 pages* forward, which makes you have to stop the voice and navigate back then start again. — Glitch #2: attempts to scroll BACK to previous page *while* PDF voice is reading only takes you back to the top of the current page and WILL NOT take you back a page, no matter what. This is a major glitch. — Glitch #3: since these scrolling options (again, *while* listening to the voice) are consistently glitchy, to go to the desired page the user has to stop the voice function, go to thumbnail view, and select the right page. BUT ALAS, here’s the third glitch: to select the correct page via thumbnail view one had to select the page TWO pages before the desired page! One last request: It would further be extremely useful if the thumbnail view didn’t always revert back to page 1 but rather followed the current page being read. As it stands now, I could be on page 291 and wanting to go back to the beginning of that chapter, and when I choose thumbnail view to navigate to an earlier page it always begins at page 1 and I have to scroll several hundred pages forward to get to where I want to go. Every. Time.