Description of App
CereProc's mobile app that allows users to trial and use voices on iOS devices.
Users can browse the wide array of CereProc text-to-speech voices which come in a multitude of languages and accents. Prior to purchasing, voices can be trialled to allow users to experience the sound of our voices.
With the introduction of CereProc's version 6 voices, CereWave alternatives have been introduced. CereWave voices are built using CereProc's custom AI DNN (Deep Neural Network) voice building technique to create a more human sounding output.
Comments
Forgot to suggest Apple sign-in...
If only I had also suggested in my message to the support team that signing in with Apple be added as an option.
Can I use it with VoiceOver?
Can I use it with VoiceOver?
Yes, in theory.
I was able to use Heather, the one and only voice installed along with the app for free. I doubt I'll be able to use any of the voices if all of them are that unresponsive though.
Disappointed
The app is a very confusing mess and I can’t use any of the voices for VoiceOver. If I don’t buy the voices which is really sad.
It works with VoiceOver, but
Hi. It can be used with VoiceOver, but installing voices doesn’t seem to be accessible. Pressing install brings you to a dialogue where the app requests permission to connect to the website to sign you in. After signing in, nothing seems to happen and pressing the install button just brings the same dialogue. Pressing continue brings you straight back to the install voice screen and nothing seems to change. As for the voices, I think it’s one dollar per voice so it’s not that bad.
Yes, installing voices doesn't work for me either.
As I already wrote to CereProc...
They're aware of the issue, but I'm surprised at how it hadn't been fixed by the time the app was released on the App Store.
I already knew they were doing beta-testing until recently, as it was posted somewhere in another thread. I had been checking the App Store every now and then, and finally came across the app yesterday. They should at least have tried to install one single voice on one of the devices on which they were testing the app. Even if this is an issue that VoiceOver users face in particular, it's already VoiceOver users that should be interested in using the voices the most, so this is no excuse to convince me.
Removed from App Store
The app is removed from the App Store now what this is scam
What?
Such a high-profile company wouldn't make all those voices only to fool you into downloading a fraudulent app, right? Still surprised to know it was removed from the App Store though. Hope it'll be back soon, but it looks like they hadn't and wouldn't have noticed anything until or unless I sent them that message of mine posted above.
They're not a sscam.
I'm not a huge fan of their voices but they're not a scam.
Yep its gone for me as well, probably to fix bugs?
Just pressed the appstore link and I get the error app not available. It probably got removed because further testing was needed / fixing of bugs?
Yeah, what do we call that?
What are we supposed to call that? Post-beta tests? Or, since it's some form of delayed beta-testing, or even comes after beta, should I coin a new term like "gamma-testing"? (LOL)
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I think I deserve that, as I'm the one who made the app vanish from the App Store. Seriously though, this is a major foul-up.
I install the app before I got removed
Let’s check on the App Store and see if it’s still there
Okay, what a twist
I can confirm that the app is not on the App Store now. Well that was short lived but if they knew it was and go to the stables and why the hell did they release it to the App Store then if they knew it was it gonna be said for blind people.
Not in my app store
Subject line says it all. Will be interested to see if it pops back up.
Interesting
I went to their website, and it mentioned being able to use their voices on Windows, Mac, and Android. iPhone got no mention at all.
Maybe they were just tricking us
Maybe they were tricking us badly
Hmmm...
Looks like to me they took down the app do to interface & connection issues.
No issues with the Android version, in both accessibility & purchasing.
Also, those wave voices are not as responsive, unlike the standard ones.
Updates
Are their any updates to this app or the developers?
No reply so far.
No response whatsoever after the app was removed from the App Store. I got only one reply asking me whether I could install Ben, which I had already said I couldn't in my very first message to them. This one and only reply I got soon after I posted the entry here but before the app disappeared from the App Store.
V1.1 is out
1.1 of this ap, is out now. Only the free voices are available at the moment; I'm still completely unable to use/install any voices; so it still seems broken to me
You can install and use the free voices.
Though unlike Heather, the other free English voices required a restart before they were available as UK English voices on my device. They're still hardly usable though.
What is the situation for now?
I download the app and purchased one of the voices but it is not installed, no matter what I do it is not shown as installed voice. Any idea how to sort this out?
Finally fixed...
CerePlay's got three more updates after I last posted on the matter, and only after the third update could I finally install paid voices. Ben and Raodri (English), possibly in addition to other voices, do not work. Even the voices that do work, are hardly usable with VoiceOver for daily use.