vBookz Audiobooks app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 528 ratings )

Productivity Book
Developer: Mindex International Ltd

4.99 USD

Current version: 4.0, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 11 May 2010
App size: 139.91 Mb

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

Reads out loud from over 40,000 classic books for using the leading live text to speech generator with no need for conversion nor stored audio files.

vBookz Audiobooks has an all-in-one support and it reads PDF, non-DRM ePUB eBooks, Own typed files and Wikipedia out loud. It is integrated with Dropbox, G-Drive and Gutenberg.

Famous Quotes
vBookz Audiobooks offers you a hidden feature that you may discover as most enjoyable.
In order to discover it, all you have to do is to pull down the library and listen.

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

Voice Reading
■ An easy play-pause button.
■ Continue reading when you lock the screen.
■ Change voice and reading speed (100-500 words per minute) on the fly.
■ Correct pronunciation with your own pronunciation dictionary.

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

Getting Content
■ Gutenbergs library with over 40,000 books.
■ DRM-EPUB Textbooks.
■ PDF files.
■ Open files directly from Mail, Dropbox, G-Drive and Safari.
■ Built-in Wikipedia Voice Reader.
■ Import using iTunes from a PC or Mac
■ Store and view PDF documents with original layout.
■ Export files using email.
■ Quote and share to Facebook and Twitter.

Navigating
■ Drag and drop cursor navigation.
■ Full text search.
■ Remembers speech and visual location where you stopped.
■ Bookmarking.
■ Elapse time.

Type Voyzer
A simple, intuitive voice writing tool that helps you create and write your own readable PDF files.
Type Voyzer reads your writing using text-to-speech proofreading to reduce mistakes.
■ Great text editor.
■ Select language to type with.
■ Text-To-Speech Proofreading.
■ Use type or voice dictation.
■ Use copy paste to import text from other apps.
■ Save text for further editing.
■ Export text as a PDF file.

Here is a sample of our featured titles (English):
■ A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
■ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
■ Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
■ Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
■ Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
■ Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
■ Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
■ Grimms Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
■ Gullivers travel by Jonathan Swift
■ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
■ Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
■ Mark Twains Burlesque Autobiography by Mark Twain
■ Mexico by C. Reginald Enoch
■ Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville
■ Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
■ Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
■ Poems by Emily Dickinson
■ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
■ Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
■ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
■ The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas Pere
■ The Deluge by David Graham Phillips
■ The Divine Comedy by Dante
■ The Double Spy by Dan T. Moore

Notes
■ © vBookz Audiobooks is under license and enabled by patent pending technology.
■ DRM-protected books from iBooks, Kindle or others are not playable.
■ Scanned image PDFs should first get OCR.

Pros and cons of vBookz Audiobooks app for iPhone and iPad

vBookz Audiobooks app good for

I love your app, it saves me from straining my eyes too much, it saves me hard-drive space and time. However, I think there are two very important functions to add that will give you all-5-star-reviews for the rest of times :) 1. add the background functionality. Sometimes I just want to listen to the book, and being able to turn the visual info off would help to save the battery 2. add pdf. documents support since not all e-books come in the epub format.

It looks awesome and it sounds great. With more content Id update it to 5 stars

Its pretty good! Still not as visually pleasing as iBooks and kobo app (with the page turn animation), Id like it if when your manually turning the page you didnt have to start from the corner. Id also like to tap on the screen to make the controls and word highlight disappear. It would be great if the voice still talked if you go to the home screen or lock the device. If you make all the changes Ive suggested and make a more authentic page turn animation youll get a five star from me. On the the other hand Ill never get another audiobook!

This app helps you learn to read. It is great app for like studing for a test and project. On vBookz you can download free books. vBookz can also read to you but its your option. You will find it will make it so much easier to read books when you use vBookz. Comment from Grade 6 student

Great text-to-speech ePub reader. For those who do not like the automated voice, what did you think the computer voice would sound like? Its a computer!

@T15360 & @Momof31976 ... I dont know what have you expected and if you know what is TTS is ... but I have been following TTS since its birthplace in AT&T labs and later work done by France Telecom which had set about 10 years ago high standard for TTS such as the ones you hear when you call your Bank or airline. These companies run TTS Programs on quad-core machines and the voice is actually simulates real samples of syllables. You cant expect anything like that on the phone unless you use google service. The voices this app is using are Acapella, one of the best consumer available voices. IPhone processing power and battery has limitations. Thatss why maybe the quality is not ad good as if you run on a computer. The voices in this app are scaled down to 8 bit from 11? But they sound still OK. With regard to the app - its very well designed. I wished there is integration with Dropbox, but that would probably be reduce sales of Ebooks. Overall- highly recommended app.

Some bad moments

I expected it to be a human voice! That was a real voice! Im disappointed! (T . T)

But it has some problems with the interface, when I enter sometimes crash, in other times, I try to open a book then the interface try to delete the book, but without these problems, It works.

Since I last wrote the review shown below, a problem has arisen and I am still awaiting a solution. After updating to the latest version of iTunes, all my previously stored books on Vbookz disappeared. Also I can no longer reload those ebooks or other books that I converted using Stanza to iTunes. Hence I cannot get them onto either my iPad or iPhone - I purchased both versions of the vBookz app. Has anyone else run into this problem? Bottom line, my own books can no longer be read out aloud nor loaded to vBookz - and so until this is resolved I will need to downgrade this app to 2 stars! .............hopefully this is a temporary glitch. PREVIOUS REVIEW BELOW: I have spent many more dollars in the past for a text to speech reader but for $4 this is a steal. Had a problem converting my lit books to epub and within hours, support was able to help and get my book in a "readable" version that vBookz could read to me. Hint here is to use Stanza to make the conversion as they suggested. It will be 5 stars next time if the excellent voice can be"taught" to modulate a little better, and learn to read chunks of text more naturally - I know that is asking a lot of a tts application that only cost $4 but I am sure the developers will continue to improve the product. Well done so far and very worthwhile a download for those, like me, who want large books read to me on the long drives to work...

This looks nice- but sounds terrible - I can not stand the automated computer robot voice stumbling through the words. Impossible to enjoy the story. Tried adjusting the voice speed, it does not help. Will never use this ap.

Not impressed at all. She sounds like a robot reading individual words, not sentences. Very hard to understand. Wish I hadnt wasted my money on this one.

I am very disappointed with the app. It did not work . I spend extra 4.99 for French audio but it keep crash on me .

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