Managing Voices

When a new article or book is loaded in Voice Dream Reader, we automatically detect the language of the text. The first time you listen to it, we’ll use the preferred voice for that language. (Preferred voice can be set by tapping on “More Info” from a voice in Settings-Manage My Voices or from Voice Settings. While listening, you can pick a different voice for that language if you have more than one. Voice Dream remembers that and will use it the next time you open the article or book.

Besides setting a preferred voice, you can also fine tune the default speech rate, pitch, and volume of a voice from the same screen.

When you start listening to a new article or book, Voice Dream Reader selects an appropriate voice, and read the text using the default Speech Rate for that voice. In Voice Settings, it’ll say “Speech Rate (Default)”. If you change the speech rate in Voice Settings, you’ll override the default by setting an item-specific speech rate. From then one, that article or book will always be read with that speech rate regardless which voice you choose.

Voice Dream Reader is equipped with a highly advanced personal pronunciation dictionary. There is a separate dictionary for each language, and a dictionary consists of multiple entries. To create an entry, tap on “+” under pronunciation dictionary.

You can choose from three ways to match the entry text: “Word”, “Anywhere”, or “RegEx”. “Word” means the text should be an independent word, while “Anywhere” would try to find the entry text even if it’s a part of another word. For example: dictionary entry for “wonder” would not affect “wonderful” if you choose “Word”, but it would affect it if you choose “Anywhere”.”

“RegEx” stands for Regular Expression, a powerful text pattern matching language. For example, the chapter-verse in the Bible can be described with “

[0-9]+:[0-9]+”. There’s many good RegEx tutorials on line if you’re interested in learning how to use this powerful technology.

Once a match is found using any of the matching options, you can tell Voice Dream Reader to skip all text that match, or to pronounce it as if it’s another piece of text. For example, you can pronounce “lol” as “laughing out loud”, or spell out “MAD” as “M-A-D”.