iOS 10 and more recent versions offer a range of hidden features which users have been discovering over time — one of such is that the operating system has capabilities that allows read just about any text to the user. While this offering is disabled by default, you can enable it so that your iPhone, iPod, or iPad, read any text aloud. However, if you don't want use this method, a number of amazing apps that read PDF to you out loud. Read on to learn how to read PDF on iPhone.
- Default Text-To-Speech for iOS
- NaturalReader Text to Speech
- Voice Dream Reader
- vBookz PDF Voice Reader
- PDF Text to Speech eBook Aloud
Top 5 PDF Book Reading App
1. Default Text-To-Speech for iOS
To use iPhone PDF voice reader that comes with the device by default, take the following steps:
- Launch the "Settings" app displayed on your home screen.
- Tap (or select) the "General" tab.
- Scroll down and open the "Accessibility" tab.
- Tap the "Speak Selection" feature (this option should be set to "off" at the moment).
- To put it on, tap the "toggle switch." Also, you can adjust the speech rate. But it is pertinent to note that the default could be the ideal rate. If any adjustment is necessary, it could be to slow it down.
- Once the "Speak Selection" is enabled, simply highlight your desired part of the text the same way you would while copying it; the only difference here is that you would press the "Speak" button instead. This option will read "Pause" as the text is read, allowing you stop it whenever you want.
2. NaturalReader Text to Speech
This is a text-to-speech app for reading documents, eBooks, and web pages aloud. It is designed with quality, natural-sounding voices and is a useful tool for persons that dyslexia and some other difficulties related to reading. You have more than 50 (fifty) voices in over 20 (twenty) languages.
If you're a student who is bogged down by a lengthy reading list, make use of NaturalReader for uploading your class notes, e-textbooks, or eBooks, or for easing the burden and relaxing your eyes. You can listen and review on the move when you commute to class or when you multi-task at home.
- It an excellent PDF book reading app suitable for all kinds of readers.
- You should bookmark essential pages to gain easy access to them later on.
- NaturalReader is also an efficient proofreading tool for both students and writers.
- It allows you adjust the speed of the speaker as well as background color to be well-suited to your own preferences
Price: free, offer in app purchase
3. Voice Dream Reader
Voice Dream Reader was featured by Apple as Best New App in (eighty one) 81 countries like the US and several others part of App Store Permanent Collections in Education. The program has been commended by a lot of people as the best mobile text-to-speech (TTS) tool.
- Some of its supported document formats PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Plain text, Google Docs, and RTF.
- It comes with a premium Acapela voice that you choose, offered free when you buy the app.
- Voice Dream Reader has 36 inbuilt iOS voices in 27 (twenty seven) languages for free.
- It provides over 200 (two hundred) extra premium voices in 30 (thirty) languages available through in-app purchases.
Price: $14.99
4. vBookz PDF Voice Reader
This revolutionary tool comes with advanced text-to-speech voices available in 17 languages. It is a high-quality app for following and reading PDF documents on iPhone, iPod, and iPad. vBookz Audiobooks offers tools for orientation as well as navigation, which enhance your reading experience.
vBookz provides all-in-one support; it can read aloud documents in PDF, typed files, Wikipedia pages, and non-DRM ePUB eBooks. It's integrated with Google Drive, Dropbox, and Gutenberg.
- vBookz Opens your files directly from Dropbox, Mail, Safari, and G-Drive.
- It lets you import with the aid of iTunes from Mac or PC.
- It comes with Gutenberg's library that contains more than 40,000 books.
- It supports non-DRM-EPUB Textbooks.
- vBookz has an inbuilt Wikipedia Voice Reader.
- It can export files with email.
- It features downloadable voices.
- vBooks PDF Voice Reader has an inbuilt English US voice.
- It offers an Auto language detector.
- The apps lets you continue reading even after locking the screen.
Price: free, offer in app purchase
5. PDF Text to Speech eBook Aloud
This software is the best for reading your PDFs aloud on your smartphone anywhere — be at home, in a bus or at work. The tool works offline and contains the world's 14 most popular languages.
With this tool, you can enjoy reading your books by simply tapping the "play" button because it comes with a speech to text generator. Using the app requires no technical
- It comes with a simple-to-use and intuitive interface.
- With just a tap, you can upload your book quickly.
- It lets you upload books via Dropbox or Google Drive.
- The software offers more than 14 different languages.
- It enables you to change to various colors and fonts.
- The app provides easy access to any page in less than one second.
Price: free, offer in app purchase
To read PDF documents loud on, you can employ the default Text-To-Speech for iOS. However, if due to owing to one factor or the other, you don't like this technique, you can purchase any of the 4 PDF read out loud app explained above.
