Description
Make an increasing number of content sources Audible !Listen to your your office documents, books, articles and research papers while you drive, run, or walk the dog. Use it to proof-read your papers.
Pdf-to-Speech runs in the background so you can do other tasks while listening to documents. It works like a music player.
Supported formats:
Text files (txt)
Portable Document Format (pdf)
Electronic books (ePub) (DRM eBooks not supported)
Microsoft Word documents (doc)
Microsoft Power Point (ppt)
Microsoft Word XML (docx) **
Microsoft Power Point XML (pptx) **
Web pages (URL link)
Images with text (jpeg,png)
Website-to-Speech: Pdf-to-Speech can read website pages.
Ideal for articles and blogs. Improved to extract just the text related to content.
Download and save your PDF files and plain text file Attachments from the gmail app and other apps. The downloaded file is placed in the Download folder.
Replace Text tool: Replace words or phrases to avoid repetitive, unnecessary phrases. Use it to replace foreign words with more phonetic alternatives. Use it to omit symbols. It can also be used to replace names or words with funny substitutes.
Support for Bluetooth media buttons (single click skips sentences, double click skips pages ).
Gestures: Use gestures to quickly flip pages, advance sentences, and to play and pause the reader. A menu help option informs of the available gesture instructions.
Support for SVOX, IVONA text-to-Speech and other High Fidelity text-to-speech synthesizers.
Integration with Google Drive makes it seamless to hear files and Google docs stored in GDrive. Also compatible with Box app and Drop Box app so you can open files from other cloud drives as well.
Accessibility: Pdf-to-Speech has been tested to work with talk-back. The use of hardware buttons such as a Bluetooth headset is recommended to pause the reader before browsing the app using talk-back.
Theme selection**: Switch between a bright and dark themes depending on the time of the day.
Play over media: Enable this feature to play Pdf-to-speech along a music player to have background music while you listen to a document. Switch the audio stream to adjust the volume of Pdf-to-Speech and the music app separately.
For two-way feedback, discussion and feature requests... follows us on Google+
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103037044611920202429/103037044611920202429/posts
Use this Reddit page for feature suggestions and rate other user's suggestions
http://www.reddit.com/r/practicalandroidapps/
For errors (bugs), send us an email.
More video tutorials available on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/PdfToSpeech?feature=mhee
** Features available for Android 4.0 and up. Future updates may bring support for docx/pptx formats to Gingerbread/Froyo (Android 2.3/2.2)
Tariq
Sep 28, 2012 2:01:15 PM
Wonderful I have never felt compelled to write a review but felt I must. This app has performed fantastically tied in with Ivona. I've been through dozens of pages and it hasn't let me down. Being able to listen to documents when in the car etc has been a revelation.
Nexus
Sep 27, 2012 6:52:02 AM
A handy app"s even better now the recent updates have improved an already useful app. Well done.
Mark
Sep 27, 2012 12:02:03 AM
Just hangs on htc desire s Read a couple of pages then locked up completely. Battery removal required. Now uninstalled. The quest for a good PDF reader continues.
Chris
Sep 25, 2012 12:13:19 AM
Chris UK As a blind Android user, I welcome any app that can make documents accessible, and pdf's are notoriously difficult to access by screenreaders, however this seems to be a pretty good solution. I would welcome more accessisble control buttons like pause, read by sentance etc, it just seems to read non-stop once loaded but this could be me not being familar with the interface, I have to use Android Talkback to access everything on ICS and I'd urge developerers to test theri software with this feature enabled, the important thing is that most if not all of the buttons are properly labelled, but agan it'd be nice to have some dedicated controls, otherwise great work!
elentz
Sep 11, 2012 12:48:46 AM
Exactly how I would have coded it I'm a developer and I am usually frustrated with programs I use and want to recode them. With this program, not the case. Love it! Great work!
John
Sep 4, 2012 7:36:59 AM
Waste of money OCR doesn't work...
Rabih
Aug 24, 2012 8:15:28 AM
Samsung G2 It stops while reading and very slow to load
hector
Aug 17, 2012 7:46:52 AM
Great app 1 big issue App worked great but can you guys add like a button that won't read letters..its spelling everything out for me instead of reading the words
Claude
Aug 14, 2012 3:55:57 PM
15 minutes was an insufficent time to test 15 minutes was an insufficient time to test this app. I had to move my PDF's to a folder where this app could find them. Then it took a long time to load the 1st PDF. Then I found it was freezing every time I tried to skip to the correct page. Then my 15 minutes was up. I was hoping this app would be more like the Windows Adobe Reader, which can start reading, at any page immediately.
Junwen
Aug 10, 2012 2:41:18 AM
Very clear speech, but slow to load Easy to listen with adequate enunciation of medical vocab. However, slow to load document/PDF upon initial opening of file as well as skipping to specified page. No preview of page prior to initiating audio sequence. Unable to quickly reload previously uploaded documents, thus must wait again for complete extraction of text. Sounds better than iPhone app called perfect reader, but slower load.