IMPORTANT: You need Text-To-Speech engine and voices installed on your device to use this app. You may use more than one if you want.
Features:
* Click "Share" or "Send by Email" button/menu item in any app to
send text to @Voice Aloud Reader for aloud reading over speakers or
a headset.
* If "Share" is not available copy text in another app and paste it
into @Voice for aloud reading.
* Option to instantly read aloud text copied to clipboard.
* Open text PDF DOC DOCX RTF OpenOffice documents or HTML files
from Android file system for reading aloud.
* EPUB and FB2 ebook formats support. Use "Open" button at the top
or on the menu navigate to a folder with ePub files and open one of
them. Read ebooks on screen with their original formatting images
shown turn pages or read continuously. Or put headphones turn off
the device and listen!
* Correctly handles Chinese and Japanese vertical text (right to
left mode) under Android 4.4 and higher or switch it to horizontal
mode if preferred.
* Easily add saved Pocket articles to @Voice reading list - in Read
List screen press Menu - Add articles from Pocket then read on
screen or listen being read aloud.
* Save articles opened in @Voice to files for later listening.
Construct listening lists of many articles for uninterrupted
listening one after the other. Order the list as needed e.g. more
important articles first.
* Record spoken articles to sound files - WAV (uncompressed) or OGG
(compressed) formats supported.
* Long-press word and/or select a longer phrase to view
dictionaries translations Wikipedia Web search and more.
* Speech correction for TTS optionally using Regular Expressions
(RegEx)
* Desktop/laptop Google Chrome browser extension to add articles to
@Voice reading list with one click.
* Dropbox sync for the saved contents and reading progress.
* Easily control speech generator volume pitch and rate of
speech.
* Pause/resume speech as needed with wired or Bluetooth headset
buttons plus click Next/Previous buttons to jump by sentence
long-click the same buttons to switch to the next/previous article
on a list.
* Can automatically recognize the language of an article and use
appropriate TTS voice if available or set your preferred voices
manually with "Select language" menu item.
* Options for additional pause between paragraph start talking as
soon as a new article is loaded or wait for a button press
start/stop talking when wired headset plug is inserted/removed.
* Optional sleep timer to stop speech after a given timeout.
ABOUT PERMISSIONS:
Internet access is needed because the Share function from web browsers and any news reading apps I tried sends us only the URL address (http://something...). They do not send the full text of articles so @Voice has to download the article from the Internet to be able to read it aloud or save for later reading. Only by using Copy text function in one app and pasting it in @Voice or by saving the full text in one app to storage and opening a file in @Voice you could avoid Internet connection but this is not very convenient.
Identity/contacts - this permission is used only to log-in to Google Drive file space if you decide to use "Sync with Google Drive" feature on the Reading List menu.
WANT TO BETA TEST NEW RELEASES?
Join @Voice Beta Testing:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.hyperionics.avar
@Voice Aloud Reader
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