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Best voice for reading e-books with voice dream reader? (self.Blind)
submitted by soundwarrior20
Hi happy Christmas everyone I hope everyone is having a good one :-) in your opinion what is the best voice for reading e-books with voice dream reader on iOS? Your help with this would be most welcome thanks very much :-)
bscross32 2 points 3y ago
It's more a matter of preference than anything else. They all have samples next to them so you can hear what they sound like before you choose or make a purchase. I personally like Sharon, but it's kind of like asking what condiments you prefer on your hot dog.
lightsrage85 1 points 3y ago
I use James myself. But i don’t want to buy any of the other voices right now. And its really good for me and clear. I use voice dream reader for book share and i have it connected with my Dropbox and such so that helps. I love to read and books are a passion of mine.
Now if i could just find this book book share doesn’t;t have.
awesomesaucesaywhat 2 points 3y ago
I use iOS Kate enhanced.
razzretina 2 points 3y ago
Depends on your speed. I like Heather, Rhona, Lisa, or iOS Moira for human speeds and iOS Karen for cramming a book into my head in under an hour. You can listen to samples of all the voices for free.
lesterhill162 2 points 3y ago
I use Alex (Enhanced) for my eBooks
SlowMoExplo 1 points 10m ago
Old post but…Amy (UK) is my all time favorite. Helps me fall asleep at night sometimes. She has been my default for almost 3 years using the app.
kraemder 1 points 1y ago
A bit of an old thread but probably still of interest. I am partial to Amy by Ivona. I listen between 200 to 250 words per minute (currently 230). I would love it if they could support the improved iOS voices made for Siri. But alas, Apple doesn't want to share. There's a lot of other text to speech voices out there that aren't in the app such as Amazon Polly and Microsoft's new voices.
coolcaelin123 1 points 3y ago
I personally like Heather (US), and cam listen for upwards of 3 hours at a time.
blackberrybunny 1 points 3y ago
Please help me-- I'm new to audiobooks. Which app are you using to listen to books, on your iphones? (I actually use the BARD app. They have a Talking Books Library for the Blind, that I've been using for years). I want to expand my audiobooks selection. Are you using the iBooks app? And where do you find these voices, please? Thank you so much for the help!
Amonwilde 2 points 3y ago
Voice Dream Reader. You can buy the voices inside the app. The app isn't free.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader/id496177674
blackberrybunny 1 points 3y ago
So this app can read anything on the screen, not just books? This is useful!
Amonwilde 2 points 3y ago
It can read anything in the right format that you put into it. PDFs if they are machine readable, etc. If you hook it up to Bookshare it gets a lot more useful, you can download books stright from there. You can also use Dropbox to get books and documents into it
blackberrybunny 1 points 3y ago
Thank you so much. I will check it out!
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