WebOutLoud - Text to Speech

WebOutLoud - Text to Speech

By Bret Lester

  • Category: Education
  • Release Date: 2014-11-05
  • Current Version: 3.25.18
  • Adult Rating: 17+
  • File Size: 39.80 MB
  • Developer: Bret Lester
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
Score: 4.62255
4.62255
From 612 Ratings
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Description

Listen to websites, PDFs, any text using text to speech. Now with a powerful new Safari extension where you can listen to websites without leaving the browser. Other features include premium voices from Amazon Polly, Microsoft Azure and more, custom pronunciations, AI summaries, PDF text-to-speech, offline capabilities, desktop integration, iCloud sync and Dark Mode.* You can save articles, e-novels and PDFs to read later, or listen to them one after another in a playlist. No Longer Limited to Websites! - Use WebOutLoud to listen to PDFs*--it highlights words as it reads. - Use WebOutLoud to read aloud any text on your iPhone or iPad. - Organize your saved content into collections. - Custom substitutions including regular expression support - AI content summaries. Instantly summarize documents and websites up to 300 pages in length.* About WebOutLoud's Leading Website Reader: It's simple! Just navigate to any web page using the in-app web browser and touch play. Web Out Loud will read web pages using a wide selection of voices, from those freely available on your iOS device to the high quality premium voices from Amazon Polly and Google Cloud. Reading requires way too much of your attention. Multitask like a champ! Listen to articles in your car or while you work. - Reads any web page, PDF or text document - Highlights words as it reads - Scrolls the page automatically as you follow along - Tell the app where to begin reading using Touch Assist, or enable the powerful Reader View to eliminate ads and isolate readable content automatically. - Dozens of supported languages, each with their own unique voice - Chrome and mobile Safari browser integration - Custom pronunciations and word substitution - AMP link blocking - Custom pronunciations and substitutions But how does it know what to read!?!? WebOutLoud uses hand-crafted AI to read web pages to you Out Loud. ---------------------- * PLEASE NOTE: PDF Text to Speech requires, and custom substitutions require a Basic subscription. A Premium subscription is required for AI content summaries and premium voices (i.e. voices by Amazon Polly, Microsoft Azure and others). Listening to web pages and text using the voices that are built-in to MacOS is free with an occasional ad. ---------------------- WebOutLoud Full Version is a 1-year auto-renewable subscription Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renew up to 24 hours before your next subscription payment is due via your App Store settings page. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Terms of Service http://wol.bretlester.com/terms_of_service.html Privacy Policy http://wol.bretlester.com/privacy_policy.html

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Reviews

  • ux is atrocious

    3
    By Deke_k
    The interace is aweful. It uses it's own menu bar of icons on the bottom of the application which I do not know what half of them are. It's essentially a Chrome browser embeeded an application with some buttons tacked on at the bottom. It uses very little standard ui/ux conventions for the macos menu items, ie File/Open are not used at all. To simply bring in pdf files you have to go to the "saved content" window, add a pdf to it. It doesn't have a table of contents or a thumbnail list. As soon as you resize the window, it resets the pdf back to page 1. If you haven't paid for the tool many buttons will force you to a purchase window which you can't get out of without force quiting the app. Once you get to the reading part it is fine but the experience just trying to demo the product before paying for it is less then desirable.

  • App is very hard to use

    2
    By Rbooooooo
    Not worth downloading hard to use and it glitches.

  • It tries to charge you premium for voices it doesn't even own

    1
    By Lacie Elaine
    It charges premium for voices it stole from Amazon, google, Microsoft, and open AI. How y'all gonna charge for something that isn't even yours. 🤦🏽‍♀️

  • A great tool to make my time more proficient

    5
    By HALLFCA31
    I save so much time being able to multitask with this tool! I can research information on any website and most of the time we out loud can read it to me. Allowing me to get additional task completed. Also I lose my patience when trying to read written words and usually get headaches whenever my brain feels like I’ve been reading to much. Headaches are most like caused from bending my neck to look down and read text from website articles on my phone or tablet. So web out loud is literally saving me from my neck pain too! WebOutLoud allows me to read or aka listen to more articles than what my own reading speed is, this allows me to get more done. It is so very easy to use also! I simply share and open the webpage I’m reading into WebOutLoud and hit play. So there is no copy, cut and pasting into another app that will read text for me. It’s much more simple just click one icon and open that webpage up in WebOutLoud. Very useful, time saving app! I love it!

  • Ok app

    2
    By carter074539
    Works add are annoying and I don’t want to pay

  • Requesting adblock!

    4
    By Adelais Desu
    This is my go-to reader in the few occasions I need a reader to read directly from the browser as exporting the page doesnt work for whatever non-related reason. I would LOVE for an option for a built in adblock in the browser 🫠 i’m not talking about the “no ads” that are forced onto you by the app - i bought the no ad plan - i’m talking about the browser ads placed by websites. 😩 i know there is reader mode that will get ride of the appearance of ads, but there are a handful of websites that reader mode is not very compatible with and the text gets skipped sometimes.

  • Great for Fanfiction!

    5
    By SunPho3n1x
    I use this app to listen to fanfiction. I absolutely love it :-) I have the version with only one voice. It is easy to use and prevents me from having to get multiple apps to listed to my various fanfiction sites.

  • instead of going to the same attention Saved Content it create an unwanted folder

    4
    By Treyking17
    OK, if this is what the update it’s unnecessary fixing problems I cannot understand but adding a folder for a new content I just confuses me even more having to go back-and-forth between each one if it’s possible could you fix that? I feel like I shouldn’t have to do unnecessary work just to save content.

  • Is useful

    5
    By jeeeeggge
    I love it’s features and usefulness to read

  • Best reading app for web novels!

    5
    By trinh318
    I use it to convert text to speech using voices on the iPhone. I prefer the free version over the premium version. When using the premium version, the phone gets hot because it does a lot of processing.

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