Hi everyone,

This is Shalin Shah — the creator of Voice. For those of you who don't know me, I’m a senior studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Voice has been a project of mine since I was in high school, and I’ve been working hard to make it better over the last 6 years.

Voice was hand-crafted for people like you. It can help you quickly read items like product labels and magazine pages in your day-to-day. But you can also use it for more advanced reading like mail or books. Here's the link to the app: $1.

My goal with Voice was to create the most simple and intuitive interface to help you read things. I’ve built some new features in this version that I hope are helpful.

OCR:
Voice’s OCR engine is perhaps one of the best in the world. You don't need to worry about low lighting and bad focus, Voice corrects it automatically and gives you pixel-perfect accuracy every time. Voice can even read scribbles and handwritten text with incredible accuracy.

Standard Photo Capture:
The most basic way to use Voice is by simply tapping the button labeled by VoiceOver as “Camera. Button.” This will take a picture. Then simply tap the button labeled “Next. Button.” and Voice will perform OCR on your image and read it aloud.

Voice Control:
Alternatively, you can control the app using your voice if you find that tapping buttons shakes your camera. Simply say “capture” to snap a picture, and “read” to start processing the image. I wanted to focus on making Voice as simple as possible, so I only included these 2 commands in the app.

Batch Mode:
Batch mode is enabled by default. To read more than one page, just keep taking photos using the “Camera. Button.” or by saying the word “capture” many times. Voice will read all the documents one after another.