Download  NaturalReader - Text to Speech  APK

The idea of the app is great. You want to listen to some paper while cycling? Sure. You want to listen to a recipe while cooking it? Go for it. However it's the execution that brings down the overall rating of this product. I faced numeral occasions where the app wouldn't want to read a text (no DRM of course) and will tell me that my device doesn't support a free version (even though I just used it for another PDF) and I need to go premium. So far force stopping the app and restarting it seems to circumvent the issue. Note that in the settings I haven't selected any premium feature. Next the app always requests a login/sign up if you want to get a collection of your documents and not having to reopen every time. My guess is that it is for some premium feature (even though not stated as such) or gathering data from the user. Requesting an online interaction (login) for something that is supposed to be local-only is always fishy. Third probably because of not logging in the settings for which language you've selected (in my case default is English US language, but I like to have the English UK language) are reset every time you open a document. I doubt that the language information is extracted from the document since I've used multiple UK written works and it still goes back to English US thus forcing me to configure this setting in particular over and over again. The app appears to use just your basic OCR without and semantic analysis. What does this mean? Tables, footnotes, references etc. - it's all reproduced in a way that can annoy even the most patient user. I doubt that there is even 0.00001% number of people reading let's say a paper, who are actually interested in the header or footer information. In addition the app seems to have problem with punctuation (especially when there are abbreviations ending with a dot thus giving the engine the illusion it's the end of a sentence), headings, paragraph structure and hyphenation upon a line break. The last is excusable since it's very difficult even for humans to know all the rules from one language to another. Whenever the phone locks the app stops reading. This would mean that your phone needs to have it's display on and be unlocked the whole time, which makes the app unusable on long trip in a bus/tram/train/bicycle/walks, where you probably will not have access to a power outlet. The app requests online connectivity for some premium features such as the premium voices. Why I don't know. The buttons (play, next, previous and stop) appear to have response delay sometime. Maybe it's because I have a cheap Moto G and the app freezes while processing a section of the text and interaction by the user. Normally as I software developer I would say that something with the multi-threading is not done properly since the UI has to remain responsive regardless of background tasks (such as processing the text). I don't know if the app improves once you get the premium version. To be honest the way it presents itself I wouldn't go premium even out of curiosity how it will perform then. I hope this review helps the developer improve this product. Right now I wouldn't recommend this for anything but simple (non-scientific) texts such as stories and recipes.

works well and simple to use, although I wish it wouldn't make you think you could use a premium voice when you first start the app. It does pause on its own occasionally, but not often enough for it to actually be annoying, I just have to go back on the app and press pause and then play and it works fine again. The non-premium voices aren't jarring either which is nice :)

It was great for awhile but I don't know what happened. Recently it doesn't like me pasting anything and using the Website link just leaves me on a loading screen even when on strong wi-fi. Not only that but it sometimes doesn't even load the entire web page. It once stopped in the middle of a sentence and I thought it was buffering but nope! It just didn't load anything after that sentence. I tried pasting the link again, same result and it wouldn't let me paste the text either.