Pdf to Speech Pro
$2.49
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About Pdf to Speech Pro
Make an increasing number of content sources Audible !
Pdf-to-Speech Pro uses text to speech to play your text documents and books
Listen to your your office documents, books, articles and research papers while you drive, run, or walk the dog. Here are some example use cases:
Productivity:
Absorb more content while doing other tasks like walking, driving or basking in the sun.
Proof-read your papers.
Learning:
Use it to help you improve your reading of other languages.
Accessibility:
Includes Features for visually impaired users
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. or to unfurl acronyms. 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 and Box.com*** makes it seamless to hear files and Google docs stored in GDrive. Also compatible with Drop Box using their app so you can open files from other cloud drives as well.
Accessibility: Pdf-to-Speech has been tested to work with talk-back for eyes-free use. The use of hardware buttons such as a Bluetooth headset is recommended to pause the reader before browsing the app using talk-back. Another trick is to use different text to speech engines for talk back and Pdf-to-Speech Pro to distinguish one app from the other.
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.
Widget Buttons: control the pdf-to-speech from the home screen using a widget.
Notification Buttons**: copy sentence to clipboard or pause the player from the notification box.
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
*** Feature available on Android 17 and up.
Pdf-to-Speech Pro uses text to speech to play your text documents and books
Listen to your your office documents, books, articles and research papers while you drive, run, or walk the dog. Here are some example use cases:
Productivity:
Absorb more content while doing other tasks like walking, driving or basking in the sun.
Proof-read your papers.
Learning:
Use it to help you improve your reading of other languages.
Accessibility:
Includes Features for visually impaired users
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. or to unfurl acronyms. 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 and Box.com*** makes it seamless to hear files and Google docs stored in GDrive. Also compatible with Drop Box using their app so you can open files from other cloud drives as well.
Accessibility: Pdf-to-Speech has been tested to work with talk-back for eyes-free use. The use of hardware buttons such as a Bluetooth headset is recommended to pause the reader before browsing the app using talk-back. Another trick is to use different text to speech engines for talk back and Pdf-to-Speech Pro to distinguish one app from the other.
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.
Widget Buttons: control the pdf-to-speech from the home screen using a widget.
Notification Buttons**: copy sentence to clipboard or pause the player from the notification box.
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
*** Feature available on Android 17 and up.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
17.7 Beta
*Unified User Interface from Android 2.2 to 4.3, KitKat
*Nitro Drive File Manager now available on Android 2.2 up to Android 4.3
12.6.5
*Support for encrypted Pdf's
*Fixed bug when reading some ePub files
17.7 Beta
*Unified User Interface from Android 2.2 to 4.3, KitKat
*Nitro Drive File Manager now available on Android 2.2 up to Android 4.3
12.6.5
*Support for encrypted Pdf's
*Fixed bug when reading some ePub files
Price update Price changed from $2.99 to $2.49.
More downloads Pdf to Speech Pro reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
Version update Pdf to Speech Pro was updated to version 12.7.1
Version update Pdf to Speech Pro was updated to version 12.6.5
What are users saying about Pdf to Speech Pro
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The best app I have found for pdf to speech. It is easy to use and work really well, especially when paired with a good voice.I would like it to be more consistent in its 'recent documents', but more importantly, I would like an option for "don't read abbreviations" and "don't read punctuation" since some words become unintelligible if they have a lot of macrons and omacrons as in a sanskrit name. Finally, and probably most easily, It should pause when the headphones are removed! This is a key feature.
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Its got a few bugs like it stays on the same page but keeps reading correctly. Otherwise great to be able to listen instead of reading..
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Gets stuck regularily. The paragraph shown on screen does not match the reader's voice.
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Irst .pdf I tried to use it on didn't work. All the words had no spaces and appeared as one long word so the app began to spell every letter.
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Awful! The point of this was so I didn't need to look at the words but when it reads out "hyphen" 800000 times and 'single quote' it defeats the purpose!!
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1. Link to email support doesn't work. 2. Reading of words with apostrophes is horrible - man's becomes man (long pause) s. 3. Autoscroll highlight is inconsistent, sometimes 2 pages behind the reading and then finding the passage where the reading is impossible as moving from page to page is limited. 4. Bookmark doesn't work. 5. At page 20 of a 200+ page document it told me the document was finished. How useless is that!!
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I was sure I used to be able to start/stop via my Bluetooth headset button, but that feature seems to have stopped working? Did I miss something?
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Tried similar apps and this one works well for the my weekend commute of 5 hours to have .pdfs played to me in support of my current course. My biggest complaint is that, at times, the highlighted paragraph is not properly synchronized with the audio making it very difficult to skip sections that I don't want read especially while driving...
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Should provide us free software cause I'm not satisfied with this product
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The developer fix quickly some problem that crash the app. Working great with my PDF's books. Does the job it should do and does it very well, but needs to improve the user interface, it's horrible. I'll give 5 stars if it improves the UI.
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I have been using this app since 2012. It makes reading PDF'S so much easier. However I can't believe it continues being this clunky and has some bugs where the reader marker is out of sync with the voice. It needs a revamping.
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will not load my .pdf files, and only reads the page numbers without reading the text on the page. not very user friendly. will be asking for a refund very soon if this isn't fixed. as of now, very useless app.
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This APP is Beta. It needs filters for NUMERICAL DATA., BRACKETS, etc. It must display the page it reads. The display of read material is poor. Only a few lines are displayed with large Spaces. Does not Comare to TEXTALOUD.
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Gets stuck regularily. The paragraph shown on screen does not match the reader's voice.
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When I try to open a PDF on my android I get an error message that reads "an error happened while trying to open the pdf file on android". Searching Google doesn't give any results.
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This app saves u from reading hundreds of pages, especially when you have a lot of work to do. Oh check out my music here in Google play by typing "K-Lo Master Outlaw"
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This is an amazing e book reader that works excellently and flawlessly, I have been looking for something like this allowed my life. Thanks to guys for making such a great application free.
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Works for couple hours then fails. Uninstall reinstall doesn't work. Not ready for prime time.
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Constantly loading and not reading my documents.......I want a refund.
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This is do helpful with reviewing journal articles while commuting
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Working fine, but now skipping a few paragraphs. Please help!
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But I would suggest timer (sleeping feature)
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I use it a lot. Sometimes hang in the middle of a book.
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Finally, I have stumbled onto an app that does what I have been looking for, for quite some time. Great app, and look forward to this app evolving over time...great work to all who was involved.....
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Some of my PDF wont read on this app only the page numbers and I don't know why.
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The voice is irritating. I cannot study with this
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will not load my .pdf files, and only reads the page numbers without reading the text on the page. not very user friendly. will be asking for a refund very soon if this isn't fixed. as of now, very useless app.
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Использую уже 10 лет. Работает отлично.
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Nead indian tone how ever good app
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The best app I have found for pdf to speech. It is easy to use and work really well, especially when paired with a good voice.I would like it to be more consistent in its 'recent documents', but more importantly, I would like an option for "don't read abbreviations" and "don't read punctuation" since some words become unintelligible if they have a lot of macrons and omacrons as in a sanskrit name. Finally, and probably most easily, It should pause when the headphones are removed! This is a key feature.
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This app is absolute garbage. This is the first app that I've purchased from Google Play that flat out does not work.
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But I would suggest timer (sleeping feature)
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will not load my .pdf files, and only reads the page numbers without reading the text on the page. not very user friendly. will be asking for a refund very soon if this isn't fixed. as of now, very useless app.
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This is do helpful with reviewing journal articles while commuting
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Doesn't read my PDF files when the free @Voice does. Will request a refund.
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Nice app
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I love this app. The only thing that keeps me from giving 5 stars is that some times it loads for long periods of time in the middle a page. It'll say 72 out of 71 lines and showing the loading symbol. When it finally finishes loading the line # fixes itself. If you can fix that issue, I'll give 5 stars immediately! Galaxy S5
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I'm a cross country trucker and need something to keep me awake as I drive. Storage is a minimum in my truck for countless audio books so I got this app. It reads .pdf files for me so I can listen while I drive, without tons of bulky cd's. It's one of the best reader programs I've found. Well worth the price. It crashes occasionally and won't read all file formats but still deserves 5 stars.
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The developer fix quickly some problem that crash the app. Working great with my PDF's books. Does the job it should do and does it very well, but needs to improve the user interface, it's horrible. I'll give 5 stars if it improves the UI.
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Would like a repeat feature. Do not like "document finished" announcement... very annoying. Very difficult to go to beginning of pdf to start over.