1. Voice Dream Reader for iPad http://www.voicedream.com/

2. What’s so great about Voice Dream?
Reading for everyone – integrates with VoiceOver, zooms, follows along with the readings visually,
& INEXPENSIVE!!

3. 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!

4. 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 characters.
Can download any voice free of charge

5. 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

6. Voice Settings
High quality voices with an ability to enhance clarity, set speech rate, add voices and choose languages

7. Pronunciation Dictionary
Helpful for reading and understanding acronyms throughout a text
Skip headers/footers that occur over and over again in a text

8. 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

9. PDF files fully readable!

10. 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

11. Bookmarks/Highlights
Bookmark where you leave off
Highlight what is important and quickly move between highlights
Notes created will show under highlights as well

12. 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.

13. 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

14. Renaming or making changes to your document
Editor
Renaming or making changes to your document

15. 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

16. Organizing materials Create folders for each book using
and then the to
name each folder.
Use to delete a folder

17. So many options for importing material – Choose what is best for your institution.

18. Material from the Internet
Read articles from the internet – Smart Save removes extraneous material

19. Google Drive Make a folder for each student classbook
Add materials and share the folder with the student
Only need to share the folder once – ongoing additions can be seen immediately

20. Very good You Tube Webinar to listen/watch Winston Chen tell his story:
Search:
Dyslexic Advantage Webinar – Voice Dream Reader App Creator Winston Chen

21. Questions