I see a few options out there, but I was wondering if anyone was listening to their PDF books via iPhone app and had some recommendations. I’ve got a lot of books in PDF format and I’d like a change of pace from my usual 8 or so hours of podcasts every day. The built-in Speak Screen is not a good solution.
I have used Voice Dream, while there have
been recent management/pricing changes the
app has been reading pdfs to me for years.
I tried several apps and landed on the paid version of Natural Reader. I use it for PDFs, ePubs for which there is no audiobook, and for articles from the web.
I use the paid version to get the better AI voices. I do enough listening that it’s worth the annual fee. When I tested Voice Dream Reader, the voices weren’t as natural as Natural Reader’s, but that may have changed.
PS - Natural Reader has some read-it-later type features—e.g., you can highlight and annotate the text, add bookmarks, export your notes and highlights, etc.
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I would check out Lumid. It’s a brand new TTS app that has a lot of very realistic voices and works offline.