Works pretty well...
I bought this app as I have a competitors Web Reader, but found it to have become unreliable, exhibiting quirkiness (eg skipping first sentences of all paragraphs! It clearly is in need of updates, as it didnt do that a year ago....).
I already have Linguatecs Voice Reader (and bought an off-line voice: thats VERY important, as both apps work better if you do). So I figured since I already had a voice (Kate, the Brit female), I thought Id give their Web reader a spin.
Im glad I did, as it works really well, much better than Voice Reader (PDF reader: perhaps the larger size of many PDFs accounts for its boggy response). Like someone else mentioned above, the voice quality of Linguatec beats the competition (and even Apples voice thats built-in to Safari with iOS 5 sounds robotish in comparison).
This app is not perfect, mind you, but it works the best of any apps in the text-to-voice category Ive tried, offering great value (eg theres a $10 app, but Im not spending that kind of money just to find out if theyre better!)
Things Id like to see added?
• it would be nice if the browser would respond to tapping of the upper menu bar like Safari, jumping to the top of the page. That would save a TON of scrolling!
• multi-tab browsing (important, if this is to be used as a replacement for Safari; it should offer at least the functionality of the native browser),
• option for auto-play after the page loads,
• As mentioned above, the ability to select where reading commences (or remember where reading left off. I know, these are not big concerns for web pages (which are smaller than 400 pg PDF files), as the app is responsive enough to tab to locate the paragraph you want, but it still would be nice...).
•PDF support (or make Voice Reader more responsive/snappier, like Voice Reader Web...)
• seems a bit of a waste of bandwidth and time for users to download 110MB of off-line voice data again (if you already bought a voice), if it already exists somewhere in the iPhone RAM?
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