Voice Dream Reader for iPad http://www.voicedream.com/
What’s so great about Voice Dream? Reading for everyone – integrates with VoiceOver, zooms, follows along with the readings visually, & INEXPENSIVE!!
Key Features that you will Love! Too many to list….. Reads Daisy 3.0 text-based books as well as 2.02 audiobooks & MP3 files Supported File Formats PDF files – original view or text view MS Word, PowerPoint HTML files DRM-free ePub books Integration with Bookshare, Gutenberg, Dropbox Google Docs, built in Web Browser, and more!
Free vs. Paid Free version limited to reading 200 words at one time Paid version = $9.99 plus voices ($1.99- $4.99) Voice Dream Reader Lite is the free app. It is identical to the paid version except: Stops reading after 200-300 characters. Can download any voice free of charge
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Getting Started… Voice Dream Reader will give you a demo document so that you can arrange and play with the settings… Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Voice Settings High quality voices with an ability to enhance clarity, set speech rate, add voices and choose languages
Pronunciation Dictionary Helpful for reading and understanding acronyms throughout a text Skip headers/footers that occur over and over again in a text
Text Settings Once you’ve set up the voices, set up the text settings Spend time showing light vs dark background and the large option of colors for custom. As well as text size
PDF files fully readable!
Toolbar RW/FF 30 seconds Search through the document Bookmarks and highlights Move back through all your items Move forward through all your items Toolbar
Bookmarks/Highlights Bookmark where you leave off Highlight what is important and quickly move between highlights Notes created will show under highlights as well
Notes Create notes within document and save Have your notes read back to you Find notes in Highlights section OR identified with a note icon on the text.
Toolbar using VoiceOver VoiceOver navigates controls – Voice Dream Reader takes over the reading Third button from left on Toolbar becomes a hand icon used for additional features
Renaming or making changes to your document Editor Renaming or making changes to your document
A few additional features Pinch screen for targeted reading Text is stored on your device so you can listen to it anytime, even when you don’t have Wi-Fi Can also multitask – listen to Voice Dream Reader while doing other work on the device
Organizing materials Create folders for each book using and then the to name each folder. Use to delete a folder
So many options for importing material – Choose what is best for your institution.
Material from the Internet Read articles from the internet – Smart Save removes extraneous material
Google Drive Make a folder for each student classbook Add materials and share the folder with the student Only need to share the folder once – ongoing additions can be seen immediately
Very good You Tube Webinar to listen/watch Winston Chen tell his story: Search: Dyslexic Advantage Webinar – Voice Dream Reader App Creator Winston Chen
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