Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader alternatives

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1. [R3] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 3/5 · US Great product, but has some glitches: Generally works really great, but once in a while, it glitches and gets stuck in a thinking mode. Or sometimes it does an indefinite pause between pasted paragraphs. These are frustrations, which makes the product less than ideal. I also wish that it was smart enough to recognize but notes and end note when they document pasted, it would not read those numbers
2. [R6] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 3/5 · US It’s okay: In hind site this is a great app but the glitches drive me up a wall if I didn’t need it and or had the energy to find another app I’d request a refund. It’s always “server issues” it constantly buffers between sentences and or paragraphs. It’s okay but aggravating.
3. [R7] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 2/5 · US Ehh: App does what it needs to do, but for the price It did not perform to the standard I had hoped. App would continuously crash while I was using it and it struggled greatly to read certain words and numbers.
4. [R24] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 3/5 · GB Hangs all the time.: Hangs all the time and speech is only just acceptable, it isn’t great
5. [R2] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 4/5 · US Pretty good overall, needs support for apostrophes: I am using this app for reading textbooks to me. I like it a lot, the cheaper tier works just fine for me. The voice is obviously synthetic, but listenable. Right now I’m having real issues with the fact that the app can’t read apostrophes correctly. It’s distracting to hear about “Occam ess razor” instead of Occam’s razor. I hope that’s somethin
6. [R15] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 3/5 · US Would not rely on this as your only form of communication: It works and has different peoples voices but it pronounces so many things wrong, like grr is G-R-R and also people’s names that aren’t as common. Also way too many ads that pop up in the middle of me typing and you can only add around 5 favorites. The voices are very robotic sounding. It’s okay if you want to use it for fun or if your thr
7. [R16] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 1/5 · US terrible: terrible pronunciation
8. [R10] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 1/5 · US I just got scammed: Free trial button didn’t give me a free trial but made it look like it would. Super sketchy. Want my money back. It had been a few days, my refund was denied and I have had to SPEAK (further damaging my vocal cords) to customer service reps who won’t help me with a refund. Legit evil company, don’t use these guys.
9. [R13] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 1/5 · US This app has been just charging me: I have no subscription with this app, yet they keep charging my app account. I am just finding out and look in my subscription because I know I hadn’t subscribe ( sure didn’t subscribe). Service I didn’t get, refund me.
10. [R34] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 1/5 · US Said free trial but charged me anyways: It said that I had a free trial so I got it for three days free the same day I got the free trial. It charged me 40 bucks.
11. [R49] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 1/5 · US Don’t trust the free trial: Tried the free trial but was instantly charged. Cancelled immediately but refund request says ineligible for refund. The app has a 5-10+ second “spinning wheel” for sentences to read out your text.
12. [R1] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 1/5 · US I can’t even make my own voice without paying: I don’t really like this game. I never used it anyways.
13. [R19] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 1/5 · US App: It doesn't even let you into the app without a subscription. · translated
14. [R33] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 3/5 · GB Pretty useless: This is a useless app tbh because first it's preset on a voice to make you use pro and the non-pro voices are all rubbish. I would still use it if you need to. ⭐⭐⭐
15. [R45] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 3/5 · GB Speak 4 me: I think this game is really good for messing around but there is WAY TO MANY ADS
16. [R5] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 4/5 · US The voices in the app sound congested: I really like the app because I hate reading and it’s relatively cheap compared to other apps. I only have the pro version of the app, but the voices all sound congested when reading 😭 I was using ChatGPT to read stuff to me at first, but it stopped working and would cut out in the middle of reading so I switched to this. It isn’t bad, I just can’t pick a voi
17. [R9] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 3/5 · US Good. Not great.: Voices are good. Quality of the read leaves more to be desired. It skips words or jumbles them up. It can’t read documents offline. It pauses frequently when screen is turned off.
18. [R18] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 3/5 · US No Personal Voice: I downloaded this app and started a free trial because I was looking for an app that would support the Apple Personal Voice feature to record an audiobook in my voice. This app doesn’t do that, so you are limited to the synthetic voices of others. L
19. [R27] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 3/5 · GB Meh: It is not good At scanning and it can’t scan some of the simplest sentences. Please go find another app.
20. [R43] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 1/5 · US Don’t work properly: I scanned a document and it gives me totally different context.
21. [R52] Speechify 4/5 · US It’s kinda confusing: I like it. But every time I scan my book, it just brings me to a video.
22. [R54] Speechify 1/5 · US Very deceptive: I paid $50 for this app thinking I could tap / take a picture of books and the app would read it too me. No it wants to charge me for everything. Extremely deceptive
23. [R55] Speechify 4/5 · US If own a book do I have to pay again for it?: Like this app! I am just too busy right now to sign up. Will tho, but not right now. I have many books I bought but just do not get to read. Do you have to pay for the reading of book if you already own it?
24. [R56] Speechify 3/5 · US Poor service: I purchased this, app used it maybe 5 times to try it out. They bill me & I try to contact no # only email won’t give refunds they try to keep by give you a reduced rate. I don’t use your app at this point just stop charging me. UPDATE: I got a refund app is cool but they need to expand that library I wanted to use it for Mgmnt books very limited
25. [R65] Text to Speech! 2/5 · US Glitchy already: I just downloaded this app cause of surgery so I can “talk” still and it’s already glitching out and making my keys stick
26. [R66] Text to Speech! 5/5 · US Best free text to speech app: Love how this app is free! I also like how simple it is. Definitely worth having.
27. [R68] Text to Speech! 1/5 · US Ads: Annoying ads not good quality software but doesn’t say yeah very well
28. [R70] Text to Speech! 3/5 · US To many adds: So every time I click a the words I saved like if I click 3 or 5 and add always pops up so if you could pls put less adds
29. [R79] Voice Aloud Reader 1/5 · US Bait & Switch Scam: I THOUGHT I was buying a pay-once product. But the voice for that product is a sub-1980s robo voice. Unlistenable. To get a better quality voice, you have to make a SECOND purchase, and that is for a SUBSCRIPTION. The app should be banned from the App Store.
30. [R80] Voice Aloud Reader 5/5 · US As advertised: For a free app, it does the job. Looked at other reader apps, you can pay far more than this app for premium features. I’ve had this app for years. Highlight what you want to read off the Internet, and click copy, open the voice reader app, as long as you have it turned on in settings, your text will appear, click the arrow at the bottom of the page and start listening. You might
31. [R81] Voice Aloud Reader 3/5 · US Amazing yet infuriating: There is a character limit for premium voices that makes this amazing app worthless. It harms my productivity when I have to wait a week just to get my voices back. Frankly, I feel cheated. Why an I paying for this if I keep getting cut off without options?
32. [R82] Voice Aloud Reader 1/5 · US Frustrated!: I purchased the ability to use premium voices for $9.99, and I’ve tried everything to change from the horrible robot voice and nothing works. I also can’t contact support for help! Cancelling this one!
33. [R93] Voice Dream 1/5 · US Freezes in MacOS-Cannot Install: The installation stops at the enhanced voices window. And then there is a menu box at the top that says “Type to Speak”. The only way that I could get rid of that is by installing a new MacOS version. I still have not been able to install this application on my Mac computer. I don’t know what’s gonna happen when I try to install Voice Nightmare! Help!
34. [R94] Voice Dream 5/5 · US Vision and great resources: This is one of them. This program on my phone got me through a very rigorous graduate level program with honors. I was able to listen to all textbooks and articles with ease. I could adapt the speed the color. The print.
35. [R96] Voice Dream 1/5 · US Early adopter- punished: I paid for lifetime access prior to the integration of AI and now the voice I paid for does not work anymore. Waste of money
36. [R97] Voice Dream 5/5 · US Beats Speechify for academics!: Got this to read my research material for my PhD. Was working full time and taking care of my family. Voice dream’s bookmark and highlight feature allows you to tab sentences while on a run or a drive and lets you export only your tabbed text into a single txt file with the push of a button! Saves me weeks of time writing notes, trying to find them for papers/diss
37. [R107] ElevenReader 1/5 · US Stupid violation: I pay for this app just to get violations on Books that have nothing to do with the violations I’m getting (child safety) I even made another account to get rid of the violations, but it says on a completely different fiction book. I don’t recommend this if you read fiction romance books it just makes you feel icky when you get a violation like that!
38. [R108] ElevenReader 4/5 · US Accessible and Free: okay, when I first downloaded this app, I was honestly irritated. Because of my reading disability, I had already gone through 4, 5 different read-aloud apps just trying to find one that actually worked. every single time, the natural sounding AI voices were locked behind an expensive paywall, making it even harder for people with disabilities to access something as basic as re
39. [R109] ElevenReader 3/5 · US Love it, but don’t: Love the scan to read option, but all the books are expensive just to buy for one lesson so if you have a book and you don’t feel like reading it scan it and listen to it
40. [R110] ElevenReader 1/5 · US I can’t sign in!: Why I can’t sign in? Email or Apple ID neither.
41. [R72] Text to Speech! 5/5 · US Text to speech: I recently had a double jaw surgery and this app helped me communicate to everyone including plenty of my nurses and my family members.
42. [R78] Text to Speech! 5/5 · US Perfect!: I lost my voice temporarily a while ago due to sickness. This was key to communicating with family and doctors. Absolutely genius, and ads are not as intrusive as other apps. Thank you, it’s perfect.
43. [R111] ElevenReader 5/5 · US Wonderfully realistic speech makes everything more enjoyable: I love the new features that are added, but it does seem like each update introduces weird new bugs that make using it hard at times. Latest issue is fast forwarding sometimes randomly jumps playback to some random point far earlier.
44. [R51] Speechify 1/5 · US Not worth the money: There are apps out there that are so much better. So far, I cannot read a single book on this app without (of course) paying even more money! Absolutely not. I truly want a refund, advertised and what is delivered are two completely different things!!
45. [R60] Speechify 1/5 · US Expensive: It’s 140$ to expensive
46. [R62] Speechify 3/5 · US This app wasn’t the greatest: First off the app recommend you open the app. It gives you multiple things to buy, which I obviously declined. I don’t have money😭 then after that while I tried to read my book, it makes me buy the book. Even though I had a physical copy right there. I was reading a wrinkle in time and it was a great book, I just used it to read for like 8 minutes then 8.99 dollar for