Announcing the first public beta of Runa TTS for iOS: bringing the high quality, natural sounding voices from ReadSpeaker to VoiceOver and other apps that rely on Apple's speech synthesis API's.

It seems that on my iPhone running ios16.5.1, no matter what kind of voice I choose, it can only use the default voice in the end. I thought this would only happen with Chinese voice. I tried some English voice, but they still didn't use. Ask the developer to fix this bug. I'm really looking forward to this app.

Yes, I understand what you mean better now.
But I don't think Adi can do anything about this.
We need to report these kinds of errors directly to the Read Speaker company.

Adi is the developer, or at least one of the developers, of the iOS app.

since IOS 27 is going to be released.
will it have next beta?

please when is this getting to android

just download the latest beta and trying it!
hope all is fine...
😂😂😂

will it has the NVDA addon?

Good day. Just downloaded the most recent beta onto an iPhone 15. Saw there was an option to import voice profiles. Is it possible to import voice profiles from apps such as Voice Dream and the like? if so, how does one go about this? Thank you.

Loving the updates that keep coming! Just checking, have you managed to fix the bug where it will still allow the screen to dim and lock in the midst of reading long text? I have my screen lock set to 30 seconds and find that I have to interupt speach routinely just to make sure that it doesn't cut off in the midst of what's being said. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, though I know you also have many other bugs to fix. Thank you so much for all your work!

I am using IOS 27 and sometime when it read the long artical or messages and swipe right or left to read the next one or even open the apps switcher.
it would freez.
and I have to wait for a feww second to get it back and running and sometime I have to turn off voice over and turn it back on to fix it.

thanks for your great work.
and also it's hapening when I change the language roter to one of the english voices like july and Kate...
and for the windows and NVDA version. I will try to buy it...

First of all, thank you for Beta 4; it's working great.
And about the NVDA addon, would you post us the URL, or create a forum post for it, since I can't seem to find the new version with ReadSpeaker support yet.

Thank you in advance

Just letting you know I'd instantly pay that $99 for a version that would run on my computer. It's a Mac.
I would instantly update my Mac OS version to something that would run it to do necessary beta testing if that would help.
The Windows version won't help me since I don't have a computer that can reasonably run Windows. Far too little RAM on my M1 Mac to be able to run a VM. And only fanless computers are acceptable to me.

Hi all,

I am liking this TTS so far, and I wanted to make it my primary TTS. However, since iOS 27 launched and I installed it, I have been having a serious issue with the voice.

Sometimes the voice completely freezes and there is no speech response, even though VoiceOver is still enabled. When I am reading something, it suddenly gets stuck with no speech at all. I then have to turn VoiceOver off and turn it back on again to get the speech working.

This is happening quite frequently, and it is very serious and annoying, especially when relying on this TTS.

Has anyone else experienced this issue after updating to iOS 27?

Hi,

question: these voices are very cool. Have you decided the pricing yet on these voices? I don't have the money right now to afford extra voices so if I want to continue, can I just use the public beta for the time being and how long will the beta last?

Don't know if it's because of how VoiceOver sounds on iOS 27 or you've increased the volume too much and it exceeds 0dB, but the voices sound distorted even when I lower the system volume. And don't know if it's me or everyone in general, but you have this tendency to ignore my feedback here and on TestFlight, so let's see what happens this time.

Happening here as well. Julie is downright unpleasant now. It's so sad!

I am so far liking this new build of Runa TTS. The English voices sound a lot more fluid and less broken than they did in the initial release. I do have a question regarding pronunciations. I see that there is now a community dictionary in the TTS application, my question is can we import pronunciations from VoiceOver to the community dictionary in Runa TTS?

upon installation of this latest beta, all voicees I had previously installed were still there, along with the updated voices to download. why is this? can't the app detect which voices are installed for future enhansment, and replace voices from a previous build?

Regarding the distortion issue, I would rather avoid naming a single voice as the culprit, because it could occur with any voice, but I use Ozan (enhanced) myself and he sounds distorted. As for my own question, can or should we really update the voices after updating the app itself? I refreshed the catalog but still have no duplicates. And why do I even have to refresh the catalog manually in the very first place? Can't the app do that automatically and just inform me if there are any new voices available, just in case I wish to download them? Finally, since you said I wasn't ignored, let me suggest that you add a heading to separate the installed voices and downloadable ones. We can just jump to that heading to skip directly to the downloadable voices to download any of them, without having to go through the voices that we've already installed.

Is this the same as runa tts sold by orbit research?
Meaning does it have the same voices? I'm trying to figure out if they're the same product, or 2 products sold by different names.

I am experiencing distortion, using the Erin voice.

Subject says it all. It doesn't really bother me but just in case it helps pin down the bug. I have made no changes to my dictionary. Also I have reverted back to the previous build because the clipping/distortion seemed to be happening among many people and it was very unpleasant.

I have this issue too.
In addition I have an issue about pronouncing uncorrect the latter A.
It sounds as I.

Hello.
I’ve been hearing about the same audio distortion issues from friends around me who use this product. In my opinion, there was no need for the audio boost update at all, and I think it would be better to roll it back.

I have noticed that not everyone specifies the iOS version and device they are using when complaining about sound quality. I think it would really help clarify the issue if the Runa TTS test version, the iOS version number and whether using the latest OS beta or the released version.
Those details can really make a difference, especially this year.

Really liking this new build so far. I have downloaded all of the US English and US Australian voices, and there's really only two voices I don't like.
Australian Mason.
US Mark.

These two voices do not sound that great, even the higher quality versions, on my device, which is an iPhone SE 2022 running iOS 26.7.

Also, the Australian voices are still pronouncing AppleVis as AppleVista.

Yeah, I know this sounds geeky, but you can inspect the source code and check the ARIA label. Perhaps the two words are separated by a space.