NaturalReader - Text to Speech

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Description of App

Have your books, PDFs and more read aloud to you by 140+ AI-powered voices in over 25 different languages/dialects!

NaturalReader is a mobile app that can read aloud a variety of texts like PDFs, online articles, cloud documents, even images taken by your camera and so many more.

With over 1 million monthly users and over 15 years of experience dedicated to AI technology that improves the user’s experience, we are one of the most trusted text-to-speech brands today.

Our app has innovative features like the ability to convert and download text into MP3 files, OCR text recognition for PDFs and our camera scanner.

NaturalReader is also an essential reading tool for those with dyslexia and other reading difficulties. By presenting the text both audibly and visually, readers can focus less on the act of reading, and more on the content they are reading. We also offer a dyslexia-friendly font for closed captions and within our text box.

HOW IT WORKS:

Just like a podcast or audiobook, our app lets you be productive anywhere with your mobile device. Complete readings laying in bed, during your daily commute, or walking around campus. By listening on the go, you create more time to do what you love.

Listening to our app couldn’t be easier! Simply choose the document type you wish to upload, select your desired file, and you are ready to start listening. For the best experience, remember to choose your favourite speaker’s voice and optimal listening speed.

Here are just a few of the reasons why our 1,000,000 monthly users love using NaturalReader

-- Camera Scanner: Listen to physical books and notes by using your mobile camera. Convert any piece of physical text into audio, which reads aloud to you. Just take a picture of the pages you wish to upload and you’re ready to start listening.

-- Natural Voices: Enjoy over 130+ AI-powered Voices across 20+ Languages/Dialects to choose from, including our plus voices, the newest and highest technology of AI voices.

Plus voices enable fluid, natural-sounding text to speech that matches the patterns and intonation of human voices. Plus voices are available through our Plus Subscription plan.

-- AI Text Filtering: Choose to filter out distracting and unwanted text such as URLs and text within brackets. Our advanced AI technology will detect these types of text and ignore them, limiting any distractions.

-- Customizable Experience: We have loaded our app with features built to create the most natural listening experience for our users. Choose your preferred speaker voice and optimal reading speed for the best experience.

Other features ways to customize include a dark mode, word highlight, closed captions and an advanced pronunciation editor for new or unusual words, or to improve the readability of acronyms.

-- Cross-Device Compatibility: A free NaturalReader account gives you access to our Mobile App, Online Reader and Chrome Extension. Run out of time? Seamlessly continue listening from your desktop computer to your mobile device.

Supported Formats:

PDF, MS Word (.doc & .docx), MS Powerpoint, Mac documents, RTF, TXT, DRM-free EPUB eBooks, image files (png, jpg…)

Version

5.80

Free or Paid

Free With In-App Purchase

Apple Watch Support

Not Known

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

17.0.3

Accessibility Comments

While this app is useable, I am surprised at how lackluster the lay out is. Also, when reading, I cannot get the voice dialect to switch. For instance, if I am using an American English voice, I cannot get it to switch to UK English. Once you patiently play around with this app and get it started reading, things work great, but you could xperience some irritation getting the settings to work like you want them.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads most page elements.

Button Labeling

Most buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

There are some accessibility issues with this app, but it can still be used if you are willing to tolerate these issues and learn how to work around them.

Other Comments

I only subscribed to this app a couple of days ago, but I will be contacting the developers regarding their poor accessibility performance. I suggest if you use the app and notice these issues that you do the same.

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Comments

By Lucky101 on Saturday, October 14, 2023 - 16:25

I don’t think you can do that with VoiceOver.

By sockhopsinger on Saturday, October 14, 2023 - 16:25

This is more like Voice Dream Reader or Speech Central. In other words, this is just an app designed to read text aloud such as web pages or PDF documents on your phone or computer.