vBookz PDF Voice Reader

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Description of App

The cutting edge vBookz PDF Voice Reader has an advanced text-to-speech high quality voices with 17 languages. It's the best way to follow and read documents on iPad, iPhone or iPod. vBookz adds orientation and navigation tools that enhance the reading experience.

This is a sample version. We can't guess what is your preferred language? So, we've added an In-App purchase that enables the full version of your favorite High Quality voice language. vBookz can read 17 different languages.

vBookz reads PDF files out loud, from 'Dropbox', 'G-Drive' and 'iOS Files'.

Downloadable voices
â–  Built-in English US voice.
â–  17 Premium voices from the best voice engine Acapela are available through in-app purchase and integrated iOS voices.
â–  Languages: English (UK), French, German, Greek, Finnish, Dutch (NL), Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Danish, Norwegian, Czech and Russian.
â–  Male and Female voices.

Voice Reading
â–  An easy play-pause button.
â–  Change voice and reading speed (100-500 words per minute) on the fly.

Visual Reading
â–  Great design and layout.
â–  Switches between original layout and text-only view.
â–  Synchronized word and line highlighting.
â–  Text auto-scrolling.
â–  The original 'Dyslexie' font.
â–  Helvetica, Verdana and Georgia fonts.
â–  Font size up to 30 points.
â–  Special color themes.

Getting Content
â–  Open files directly from eMail, Dropbox, G-Drive or Files.
â–  PDF files.
â–  Enables PDF sharing through email.
â–  Show PDF documents with their original layout.

Navigating
â–  Drag and drop cursor navigation.
â–  Remembers speech and visual location where you stopped.
â–  Elapse time.

Here are some of our on-shelf PDF (English) titles:
â–  Tim Cook's Speech
â–  Steve Jobs Speech
â–  The Declaration of independence

Notes
■ © vBookz is under license and enabled by patented technology.
â–  DRM-protected content is not playable.
â–  Scanned image PDFs should first get OCR.

Version

1.4

Free or Paid

Free

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

Accessibility Comments

On opening the app, VoiceOver finds nothing. By disabling VoiceOver, I was able to open one of the sample documents with a lucky tap in the center of the screen. After turning VoiceOver back on, I did somehow manage to get the app to start reading the document. However, once reading had started, VoiceOver went back to seeing no page elements or active controls. So, this is essentially as close to totally inaccessible as you could get. Which, considering the nature of the app, is extremely disappointing.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads no page elements.

Button Labeling

No buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

The app is totally inaccessible.

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