Voice Dream - Read Aloud

Definitely helpful! I was also experiencing the same problem. I'm glad to know that a fix is on the way. Thanks for the comment.

I too am having this problem. I'm glad I'm not alone in it, and that hopefully we'll get a fix for it soon. Thanks for letting us know, Clare.

Hi all:
I downloaded Voice Dream Reader yesterday and, so far, I really love this app. However, when I downloaded the app it said that I would get to choose a voice to start reading and so I chose the Acapela voice of Heather, just to see how it worked. The problem is that, even though I have gone through the settings many times, I cannot make Heather read anything. When I do the command to read, it is VoiceOver that reads the text to me instead of the Voice I chose. On the other hand, when I tried Reading with A different iOS voice, it worked like a charm. Can somebody tell me how to do this properly? Maybe there is something that I am missing. Please help because I really want to buy a few voices that will make my reading time more pleasant. I will be going for the NeoSpeech and Ivona voices for I think they are the best voices out there. By the way, I am using an iPhone 7 Plus with the latest iOS version. Thanks in advance for your always greatly appreciated help.
Have a very nice day/night, everyone.

Hi basically my subject says it all. I have my e-text book in iCloud drive. It is split up in to 41 files. It's a pain trying to add each individual file. So is there a way to add multiple files at once. ps. there all DOCX files. thanks in advance.

What's New in Version 4.4.1

- Updated for iOS 11.
- Added support for loading documents using iOS 11 File Browser.
- Added support for iOS 11 Drag and Drop for files and URLs.
- Minor bug fixes and enhancements.

Hi! Since the last update, I have encountered some problems. When I open a book, voiceover becomes stuck on the text of the book, and I can't move toward the play button and toward all the other buttons. I've discovered that, if i double tap some times on the text, the buttons reappear, but it's unpredictable, meaning that I don't know how many times do I have to tap. I'm the only one having this problem? I've an iPhone SE with the last IOS.

Hi everyone,

On my iPhone 8 running the latest IOS with Voice Dream Reader, I can no longer find page numbers in DAISY text files or PDF files while using VoiceOver. I have reported the issue to the developer and am told that the page numbers are still there but VoiceOver cannot find them. Has anyone else encountered this problem? I have begun noticing this since the latest release of Voice Dream Reader.

Hello everyone,

Since the latest release of Voice Dream Reader, I can download only EPUB files from Bookshare from within the app and not DAISY text files. My setting on Bookshare clearly indicates that I prefer DAISY files but Voice Dream tries to get only EPUB files. Has anyone else encountered this problem? I have an iPhone 8 and am running the latest IOS.

Hello again everyone,

I have yet another problem to report with Voice Dream Reader.
I had purchased the Kendra voice to use with this app years ago but I am being asked to pay for it again after deleting and redownloading the app. Here's what happened.
Some time ago, I changed my Apple ID from an email address I no longer have to my iCloud email, and everything worked quite smoothly with all of my apps, including Voice Dream Reader. I was able to use Kendra reliably as before. However, since I began to encounter other problems with the app, I decided to delete it from my iPhone 8 and then reinstalled it immediately. All of my settings for the app were successfully restored from icloud accept for the setting related to Kendra. When I proceeded to download this voice I was told to pay for it yet again. I have reported the issue to the developer but have heard nothing. Does anyone know any possible solutions to this problem? Thank you for your help.

Hi, everyone,
Here's an example to explain what I mean.
Whenever I try to flag a document of any kind, or delete a book, or try to perform any other such actions, Voice Dream Reader either reads the text of the book by word or character, or skips completely to another book or button.
I've checked the rotor in the speech settings with no luck. I've also removed the app from the app switcher and turned off the phone completely then restarted it, but nothing seems to help the problem.
I've also noticed that before when I used to type in page numbers or percentages in the edit box, the numbers used to appear in a phone pad system. Now, though, the regular keyboard appears and I have to switch from letters to numbers, then type the number using the number row. Is there a way I can return the key pad back to the phone key pad style?
Thank you in advance for any help.

hey everyone
I'm from India
I'd love to buy this app. but this app is way too costly here in India. and unfortunately, the free trial version of this app, voice dream reader lite is also not available in this country.
I am considerring to sign up for bookshare. so was thinking to buy this app.
will the developer be bringing this app to India with a much more affordable cost? as many people here use bookshare :)

thank you

Yes, I was going to recommend EasyReader, it works very much like VoiceDream.
And yes, you can use those nice voices that you use in VoiceDream, Though you do have to pay for them.

I would love to see Voice Dream have the eloquence voice as an option. I know they already have Fred, but eloquence would be great to have as another voice option. Just a thought...

Hey so I've tried downloading a book from Bookshare within the app but for some reason the download button doesn't show up. I can only view book details. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Edit: Wasn't the app's fault; I just forgot to renoo my subscription. Works fine now.

It's really unfortunate that Voice Dream Reader doesn't work for you. I'm using the most current version of the app, and all the buttons are clearly labelled and the gestures work correctly. However, just in case it makes any difference, I'm using an iPhone X S and bought the app many years ago before apps could be bundled.

Getting an iPad 9 in Jan and want to know if it works well with iPad and smart keyboard?

Hi! How do I highlight text using voiceover? I can select the text but then can’t find the option to highlight.

I absolutely love VoiceDream Reader. My one question is whether there is a way to stop it from reading the page numbers in books that I’ve downloaded from BookShare. When crossing from one page to the next, it reads out the page number as if it were part of the sentence in the book, which is a bit distracting. Is there a way to stop it from doing this? Thanks in advance for any ideas.

I was trying to figure out how to read OneDrive documents on Voice Dream Reader, so I looked at the Health page. I followed the instructions, but OneDrive does not appear in my options.

I tried to contact the official people, but I have not received a response in several weeks from anyone.

So, I was wondering if you guys could help me?

As far as I can see, there's no direct support for 1Drive. Your best bet is probably to make it appear in the files app and then use the file browser content source to get to it.

Since iOS 9 (almost 8 years ago), you can access any cloud storage from the Files app / flies browser that is available in most of the apps including in Voice Dream Reader.

You need to have that particular cloud storage app installed (e.g. OneDrive) and to enable it in the Files app.

This is how you should access all files, as everything else is a security risk. E.g. if you use built-in option to access Dropbox files, you leave your Dropbox completely unsecured. That means that some bug in the app may delete your files (not too likely), but also that if the app is sold to some malicious company (still unlikely but not impossible) someone might try to moenitize your files in various ways.

For several versions of the app now, I have been unable to read books with my preferred voice, Alex. When I press Play, the app either switches to another voice, or is completely silent, even though the button has now toggled to Pause. I am able to switch to other iOS American English voices with no problem, for example: Allison or Samantha.

This is occurring on an iPhone 8 plus, running various versions of iOS 16, and with several versions of the app now. emails to the developer have gone unanswered.

Is anybody else experiencing this?

I don't understand what happens with VoiceDream. I think it was sold or something, but I think there was no oficial information about that. ICloud syncranisation works simply horrible and support never answers.

Seems like a lot of us have been having trouble contacting support for this app lately.

Has anyone had success in recent weeks and, if so, how?

I bought the pack containing Voice Dream Reader, Writer and Scan.

A little while ago I noticed that Voice Dream Scan had been renamed VD Scan. Which is certainly not an app I would want someone else to find on my iPhone! (Well, maybe it's a UK thing, but it now sounds more like a somewhat sensitive medical app to me)

In the release notes I did get the impression that the name had changed because the Voice Dream brand had been acquired by someone. But not 100% sure of the details.

Hello this is Ahmed the VoiceDream apps specifically VD scanner and writer had Ben acquired by a developer named Opus Noma LLC I just want to keep everyone informed as to what’s going on

You can find the correct and full information on the Voice Dream Twitter.

In short Voice Dream Reader is sold to a company Applause Group that will be responsible for its development. For the start they made the app subscription based (current price should be 80$/year but they experimented with several prices already) and made all Acapela voices free. Also you get the Mac app as part of the subscription. Old users generally don’t need to pay the subscription, but they won’t get the Mac app.

The old developer hasn’t sold Scanner and Writer apps, but as he has sold the Voice Dream company and trademark, those apps are moved to a new company and have new names.

I can definitely reproduce this, and as far as I can tell it's an iOS16 and Voice dream issue. I remember the developer complaining about some kind of change to the way speech works last year, but I don't know why it's made such a mess of Alex in particular.

The workaround that works for me most of the time is, when you first open Voice Dream, read a short file of some sort. In my case it's usually a 30/45 minute ePub. That will usually work, and at that point you can pause it and start reading what you actually want to read. It doesn't work every time and you might have to try again occasionally, but it usually does. So basically, keep a short file of some sort in your library to kind of kickstart Alex.

Based on that, it seems to be some kind of timeout issue or size issue or something, not sure which.

Has anyone else been having issues with the app freezing or being really slow to respond? It's also taking hours or days to recognize books that have been downloaded. I download something from Bookshare, it says it's downloaded, but when I go to my books list the title is grayed out and stuck in a loading loop. Restarting the app doesn't solve anything, redownloading the book doesn't do anything, it just randomly decides I can read my book after a few hours or days, but sometimes never. It does this with files imported from my phone too. If I had to pay $60 a year for this I'd be done with the app entirely. It's very disheartening, this has been such a good app with no problems until this past year.

Not sure if this is the same when skipping by paragraph or page. When skipping backward or forward by sentence I experience a bit of a lag. Not sure if this is a new thing because I am only using the app in this way for the first time but, is there anyway to eliminate this. When flicking up or downward to skip backward or forward by sentence there is a lag in this response time, for example I can flick it down three times and have to wait a second before it actually finishes the process of skipping backward or forward

I've not used the app but I'm assuming it's using a sepret process to voiceover and I doubt that will change.

I agree with Lottie, I personally don't see the point of this app, yes you can use it to read things all in one place, if it works, but it almost seams like the maker of the app doesn't understand that you can do that in other places too? I'm not sure.