@Voice Aloud Reader - End-User Feature Guide

From a desktop browser, @Voice Connector can send the current page or selected text from Chrome, Edge, Brave, or Firefox into the app. Use Open in @Voice for near-immediate listening on your phone, or Add to List to save the item for later. Reader Mode can extract a smaller, cleaner article copy before upload.

• Web pages and online articles - Open a URL directly, share a page from another app, or add links to a reading list.
• Smart article extraction - Removes ads, menus, and clutter so you hear the article instead of the whole page chrome.
• Full-page mode - Load the entire page when you want sidebars, comments, hidden sections, or other non-article content included.
• Load from browser - Render a page in a real browser-like view for sites that need JavaScript, login, cookies, or manual interaction first.
• Desktop browser extensions - Use the @Voice Connector extension in Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Firefox to send web pages from your computer straight into @Voice.
• Open instantly from desktop to phone - From the browser extension, choose Open in @Voice to push the current page to the app so it opens cleaned and ready to listen when you leave your desk.
• Add from desktop for later listening - Choose Add to List in the extension to save a page into your reading list instead of opening it right away.
• Reader Mode capture in desktop browsers - The browser extension can extract just the main article before upload, producing a cleaner and smaller reading copy; this uses the same Readability-style approach as Firefox Reader View.
• Send selected text from the browser - The extension context menu can send only the highlighted text, either for instant opening or for later reading-list use.
• Follow "Next" links automatically - Detect serial fiction or multi-part articles and download the whole sequence as one file, with the option to stop and keep what has already been fetched.
• Web-page download helper - Can show "How to download this page" help for Chrome Custom Tabs and Chromium-style browser pages so downloaded pages flow into @Voice automatically.
• PDF files - Extracts text from PDFs and reads them aloud.
• PDF reading companion - For PDF-based books, can jump from the current spoken sentence back to the original PDF page and matching area in the PDF viewer.
• OCR-aware PDF workflows - Supports OCR-based reading paths for image-heavy or scanned PDF content when needed.
• EPUB and AZW3 ebooks - Reads standard EPUB books and AZW3 ebook files.
• FB2 books - Supports FictionBook files.
• Plain text and HTML files - Opens regular text and HTML documents.
• AVAR saved articles - Reopens content saved in @Voice's own article format.
• LCP-protected library books - Supports Readium LCP DRM ebooks.
• Bookshare integration - Lets eligible users access and read Bookshare books.
• Paste your own text - Read any text you copied from anywhere.
• Edit and read custom text - Type or paste text, adjust it, then have it read aloud.
• Clipboard monitoring - Can watch for copied text or links and bring them into @Voice automatically.
• Import multiple links at once - Paste a batch of URLs and turn them into a queued reading list.
• Instant-open queue from browser workflows - Can hold multiple waiting articles and let you open the newest one or add everything to a reading list.
• Monitor newly downloaded pages - Watch the Downloads folder for saved web pages and then add them to a reading list, read them in the background, or open them in @Voice immediately.
• Auto-add new Dropbox files - Detect new files arriving in a connected Dropbox location and add them to the reading list.

• Play, pause, and stop - Standard playback controls for any article, document, or book.
• Background reading - Keep listening while the screen is off or while using other apps.
• Auto-start options - Optionally begin reading as soon as new content is loaded or shared in.
• Auto-advance through a queue - Move from one article, chapter, or reading-list item to the next automatically.
• Sleep timer - Stop after preset intervals from 1 minute up to 5 hours.
• Remember last timer setting - Reuse the same sleep duration later.
• Restart timer by shaking the device - Useful when listening in bed without looking at the screen.
• Repeat each sentence - Repeat every sentence multiple times for memorization, proofreading, or language study.
• Extra pauses where you want them - Add delay after sentences, paragraphs, and between articles or chapters.
• Article transitions - Play a gong or a spoken announcement before the next article starts.
• Pause for notifications, calls, and interruptions - Speech can duck or pause when other audio takes over, then resume.
• Pause when the screen turns on - Handy if you often wake the phone to do something else.
• Headset connection behavior - Start reading when a headset connects, or stop when it disconnects.
• Wired and Bluetooth media controls - Use headset or car buttons for play, pause, back, and next.
• Advanced headset options - Ignore an accidental first Play command after Bluetooth connects, reverse Back and Next for odd hardware mappings, or let paused Back/Next skip articles and chapters.
• Bookmark from a headset button - Reassign a headset button to drop bookmarks while listening hands-free.
• Shake-to-play or shake-to-pause - Start and stop speech with horizontal shakes, with an auto-disable safety option if the device shakes too much.
• Background music compatibility - Keep music playing under speech or pause/duck other audio depending on preference.
• Audio stream selection - Route speech through the audio stream that works best for your device, car, or Bluetooth setup.
• Special Bluetooth fade workaround - Can play a very low background sound to avoid fade-in/fade-out on some Bluetooth devices between sentences.
• Back button behavior - Choose whether Android Back exits the app or leaves reading running in the background.

• Choose your TTS engine - Works with Google TTS, Samsung TTS, RHVoice, Acapela, and other installed engines.
• Choose a specific voice - Pick from the voices exposed by the selected engine.
• Set a default reading language - Use a fixed language or let @Voice detect the language of the text.
• Install missing voices when needed - Prompts you when a required language voice is missing.
• Local and cloud voices - Supports higher-quality cloud voices where the engine provides them.
• Precise speech-rate control - Set very slow or very fast playback, plus define the minimum and maximum speed range.
• Custom rate step size - Control how much each speed-up or slow-down button changes playback.
• Pitch control - Raise or lower the speaking voice independently of speed.
• Speech volume control inside the app - Separate speech volume from other device audio when supported.
• Right-to-left language support - Handles RTL languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian.
• Character-encoding fixes - Manually choose an encoding if imported text looks garbled.
• Custom speech replacements - Define words or phrases that should be spoken differently everywhere.
• Pronunciation cleanup and text filtering - Change how abbreviations, names, or awkward fragments are spoken before they reach the TTS engine.
• See the final spoken text - Inspect the text after replacements have been applied, useful for debugging pronunciation rules.
• Roman numeral conversion - Convert Roman numerals before speech, either uppercase-only or any case.
• Sync speech replacements - Keep custom pronunciation rules in sync across devices through Dropbox.

• Multiple color themes - Day, Night, Original website colors, or a fully custom theme.
• Full color customization - Set text color, background color, and other display colors.
• Font choice - Use serif, sans-serif, monospace, system fonts, or OpenDyslexic.
• Adjust font size and line spacing - Tune readability for long listening sessions.
• Text alignment options - Left, right, or justified text.
• Show or hide images - Keep article illustrations visible or strip them out.
• Include image alt text - Read accessible image descriptions when available.
• Show or hide links in text - Keep links visible or reduce visual distraction.
• Sentence highlighting - Highlight the sentence currently being spoken.
• Word highlighting - Highlight spoken words when the TTS engine supports word-level callbacks.
• Center the current sentence - Keep the active sentence centered on the screen while reading.
• Auto-scroll follow mode - Move the page so the spoken sentence stays in view.
• Boldify / bionic-style emphasis - Bold the leading part of words to support visual tracking.
• Vertical scrolling or paged reading - Read in a continuous scroll, or divide text into pages and swipe horizontally.
• One or two pages per screen - Use single-page or two-page layouts depending on orientation.
• Page-turn effects - Optional page curl when changing pages.
• Full-screen reading mode - Hide interface chrome and tap the center to bring controls back.
• Auto-hide controls timeout - Make the controls disappear automatically after a chosen delay.
• Progress bar at the bottom of the screen - See how far you have progressed through the current text.
• Brightness swipe - Adjust screen brightness by swiping along the left edge.
• Keep screen on while reading - Prevent the display from turning off if you want to read along visually.
• Hide display cutout / camera hole in full screen - Cleaner immersion on newer phones.
• Preserve original styles when desired - Keep more of the source formatting for HTML content.
• Force e-ink mode - Special display handling for e-ink devices.

• Google Translate for selected text - Long-press a word or phrase and send it to Google Translate from the reference toolbar.
• Translate the current article or page - Turn on page translation from the toolbar or menu.
• Choose source and target languages - Set translation source and destination in Translation Setup.
• Auto-select source language - Let @Voice detect the source language automatically when possible.
• Instant sentence translation - Show Google Translate for a sentence on a single tap or a double tap.
• Highlight plus translate on double-tap - Double-tap can both select the sentence and send it to Google Translate.
• Popup or full-window Google Translate behavior - Choose whether instant translation uses a quick popup-style flow or a fuller Translate window.
• Translate app or browser fallback - If the Google Translate app is unavailable or a specific popup activity is missing, @Voice can still open translation in a browser-based Google Translate view.
• Split-screen friendly workflow - Designed to work well beside Google Translate in Android split screen for live compare-and-study reading.
• Translated website cleanup - If you open a Google-translated website URL, @Voice can still try to apply the original site's article extraction rules so the translated page stays readable.
• Embedded Google Translate widget inside the article - Add a translation bar at the top of the text and switch languages without leaving the reading view.
• Favorite translation languages list - Choose which languages appear in the widget for faster switching.
• "More languages" support - Bring up a larger language-selection flow when your favorites are not enough.
• Auto-translate after opening the widget - Pick a preferred target language so the page translates immediately after you press Translate.
• Interleaved bilingual text view - Insert original text and translation into the same reading flow, keeping source and translation together on screen instead of making you switch views.
• Choose the bilingual order - Show original first or translated text first.
• Show bilingual text immediately - Skip the extra step and build the bilingual view as soon as translation is ready.
• Separate voices for source and translated text - In bilingual mode, @Voice can define and edit one voice for the original language and another for the translated language.
• Tune bilingual voices separately - Adjust engine, voice, rate, pitch, and volume for each language line.
• Read both languages aloud in sequence - Good for parallel reading, shadowing, and checking meaning sentence by sentence.
• One-language bilingual playback mode - Keep both languages visible, but speak only the language line where you start listening.
• Switch study language with Back and Forward - In one-language bilingual mode, on-screen or headset Back/Forward moves through the text and swaps the active spoken language. This is explicitly designed for language learning.
• Save translated results as HTML - After translation finishes, save the translated or bilingual page as a file and reopen it later.
• Remove translations and return to the original text - Turn translation off and restore the unmodified article.
• Translated text must be saved before editing - You cannot directly edit a temporary translated view; first save it as a new file, then edit that saved copy.
• TalkBack-aware translation widget - The widget becomes part of the text flow so TalkBack users can navigate to it with accessibility gestures.
• Useful for language learning - @Voice supports interleaved source-and-translation reading, alternating listening, rapid sentence lookup, split-screen translation, and voice-per-language playback rather than just one-shot page translation.

• Experimental dialog voice changes - A dedicated mode tries to assign different voices to spoken dialog in books and reading lists.
• Dialog-detection wizard - You pick a sentence where dialog starts, and @Voice analyzes quotes or dashes used by that book.
• Automatic alternating voices - Quickly create a two-voice dialog setup, for example one female-style voice and one male-style voice.
• Apply to one item or a whole reading list - Use dialog voice changes only for the current article, document, or ebook, or for all items in the current list.
• Reuse the current dialog definition or create a new one - Keep an existing setup or launch the wizard again.
• Named voice groups - Save reusable dialog voice groups instead of rebuilding them every time.
• Temporary group plus saved groups - Try changes in a scratch group or keep permanent named groups.
• Per-role voice selection - Pick a different engine and voice for the default narrator, dialog voice 1, dialog voice 2, and other aliases.
• Per-role rate, pitch, and volume - Fine-tune how each character or role sounds.
• Built-in voice testing - Test each selected voice directly from the dialog-voice editor.
• Switch dialog voices with Back / rewind - If the automatic speaker assignment guessed wrong, Back can swap the dialog voices on screen or from a headset.
• Hide voice-change instructions in the text - Keep advanced voice markers out of the visible reading view.
• Translation and dialog voices do not run together - If dialog voices are active, translation must be turned off first, and vice versa.
• Bilingual voice editing - The same advanced voice editor can also be used to change the original-language and translated-language voices in bilingual mode.
• Voice-scripted ebooks - If an EPUB already contains embedded voice-cast files, @Voice can load those groups directly instead of asking you to build them by hand.
• Save edited voice casts back into EPUB files - Advanced users can modify built-in voice-cast groups and write them back into the book's metadata files.
• In-text voice annotations are supported - Books or documents can contain embedded voice-change markers, pauses, and silent spans for highly customized performance-style reading.

• Reference toolbar on selected text - Long-press a word or phrase to open a toolbar without leaving the article.
• Dictionary lookup - Works with compatible dictionary apps such as ColorDict-style dictionaries, Fora, Livio, Dictan, and others.
• Google Translate from the toolbar - Send the current selection straight to Google Translate.
• Wikipedia lookup - Search the selected term on Wikipedia.
• Google search - Search the selected text on the web.
• Share selected text - Send a passage to any other app.
• System text actions - Android text-processing actions from other installed apps can also appear on the selection menu.
• Bookmark selected text directly - Turn a selection into a bookmark from the same toolbar.
• Copy and Select All tools - Standard text-handling commands are built in.
• Search inside the current text - Find words or phrases in the article or book.
• Ask AI about the current text - Send the current article or the currently loaded part of a book or document to an external AI assistant.
• Choose your AI assistant - Built-in selection currently includes ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, and Lumo by Proton.
• Saved AI prompt - Keep a default prompt such as "Summarize briefly this text, then answer questions about it."
• Open the assistant directly from @Voice - Launch the chosen AI app with the current text and your saved prompt.
• Clipboard-friendly assistant workflows - For assistants that work best through copy/paste, @Voice can prepare the prompt and text on the clipboard.
• Large-text handling for AI - If the text is too long to send safely, @Voice can ask whether to trim from the start or the end.
• DRM-aware AI limits - For protected books, @Voice respects copy restrictions and blocks AI export if the license would be violated.
• Good for studying - Between dictionaries, Google Translate, spoken-text inspection, and AI assistant handoff, @Voice works as a listening, lookup, and comprehension tool rather than only a player.

• Multiple reading lists - Keep separate queues for news, books, language study, work reading, and more.
• Add content from many places - Share menu, pasted links, built-in browser, file browser, Dropbox, Pocket, or monitored downloads.
• Current reading list behavior - Add newly detected files to the current reading list instead of dumping everything into one default queue.
• Auto-read after adding - Newly shared or newly detected content can begin reading in the background right away.
• Track progress per item - Each article, book part, or file remembers how far you got.
• Remove finished items automatically or manually - Clean up old items quickly.
• Reset progress - Start an item or a whole list over from the beginning.
• Reload failed or stale items - Re-fetch a single article or everything in the list.
• Delete duplicates - Find and remove duplicate list entries.
• Move and reorder items - Keep a custom listening order.
• Sort reading lists - Sort by name, date, progress, or custom order.
• Per-list properties - Keep per-list behavior such as auto-advance and article delay settings.
• Convert a reading list to EPUB - Turn a queue of articles into an ebook file.
• Show details or simplify list rows - Expand item details or keep the list cleaner.
• Swipe actions on list items - Quick controls for common list operations.
• Delete article files from storage - Remove saved article content to free space.

• Drop bookmarks anywhere - Mark your place while reading.
• Bookmark text plus notes - Add your own description to a bookmark.
• Color-coded bookmarks - Organize bookmarks visually by color.
• Tap to jump, long-press to edit - Fast bookmark navigation and editing.
• Search bookmarks - Find saved places by bookmark text.
• Sort bookmarks - Sort by time, text position, or alphabetically, in normal or reverse order.
• Bulk select and delete - Manage many bookmarks at once.
• Import and export bookmarks - Move bookmarks between devices or back them up as .bmk files.
• Batch bookmark export - Export many bookmark files in one operation.
• Recover lost bookmarks - If you open a different copy of a document, @Voice can try to match old bookmarks to the new copy.
• Correct shifted bookmarks - Repair bookmarks after a file changed, chapters moved, or text was re-extracted.
• Progress-aware bookmark import - Import logic tries to match bookmarks intelligently instead of blindly pasting positions.
• Reading position sync - Keep your place across devices when sync is enabled.
• Recent items history - Return quickly to articles, pages, and files you opened recently.
• History source labels - See whether an item came from sharing, opening a file, browser loading, pasting, and so on.
• History retention control - Choose how many days of history to keep.
• Clear history - Wipe the recent list when you want a clean slate.

• Save the current article or text - Keep a local copy of web content or edited text.
• Save translated or bilingual pages - Store the result of page translation as a file you can reopen later.
• Audio recording of TTS output - Record what @Voice is speaking.
• Multiple recording formats - MP3, OGG/Vorbis, and WAV.
• Recording quality choices - Pick among several compressed-audio quality levels.
• Record on demand or from playback - Start recording directly or trigger it from Play.
• Replay the last recording - Quick access to the most recent audio file.
• Full-text editing - Edit the article text before or during reading.
• HTML editing - Switch from visual editing to source HTML editing when needed.
• Rich paragraph styles - Apply headings, paragraphs, bullet lists, numbered lists, block quotes, and preformatted text.
• Inline formatting tools - Bold, italic, underline, undo, redo, and wrap-lines support in the editor.
• Paste as plain text - Control how pasted content is inserted.
• Show original text or edited text - Flip between the untouched version and your edited copy.
• Delete edited text and revert - Throw away custom edits and restore the original content.
• Choose where @Voice stores its files - Set the app data folder and backup folder locations.
• Built-in file browser - Open, rename, move, copy, delete, and inspect supported files.
• Dropbox file browser - Browse and open cloud-stored content from Dropbox.
• Show hidden files and file details - Useful for power users managing exported files and backups.

• Dropbox sync - Sync reading positions, bookmarks, reading lists, and custom speech replacements.
• Desktop-to-phone article handoff - When the browser extension and the Android app use the same Dropbox account, pages sent from desktop can appear on the phone almost immediately or wait for later list syncing.
• Backup to Dropbox - Save your app state and content metadata.
• Restore from Dropbox - Move your setup to a new or reset device.
• Conflict handling - Sync tries to preserve progress and bookmarks cleanly when multiple devices touch the same content.
• Pocket integration - Import items from your Pocket reading list.
• Bookshare access - Download and open supported books from Bookshare.
• Send the current item to another device - Continue reading on another phone or tablet.
• Transfer text, progress, and bookmarks together - Device transfer is not just the file; it carries your state.
• Incoming transfer inbox - Review incoming items, fetch them, or ignore them.
• Instant-open browser queue - If multiple pages arrive from the desktop browser extension, @Voice can offer to open the newest one and add the rest to the reading list.
• Transfer badges and alerts - @Voice can show when a new incoming transfer is waiting.
• Nearby-device aware setup - Supports the Android permissions needed for the multi-device workflow.

• TalkBack support - Designed to work with Android's screen reader.
• Explore by touch in the text area - Navigate the article with accessibility touch exploration.
• TalkBack reading gestures - Two-finger gestures can play/pause, scroll, move sentence by sentence, or jump article by article.
• Accessible translation widget behavior - Translation controls become part of the reading content for accessibility navigation.
• OpenDyslexic font - Helps some readers with dyslexia.
• Independent text-size control - Make the reading view much larger without changing overall phone settings.
• High-contrast and custom color combinations - Build a low-glare or high-contrast reading setup.
• Sentence-by-sentence review - Move through the text one sentence at a time.
• Word highlighting when supported - Makes it easier to follow the audio visually.
• PDF accessibility through extraction and OCR workflows - Makes otherwise hard-to-read documents listenable.
• LCP and Bookshare support - Important for accessible reading and library-book workflows.
• Force e-ink mode and e-ink page refresh - Special options for e-ink devices and paged reading.

• Premium removes ads - The core app works without an account, and Premium removes banner/full-screen ads.
• Premium web-link handling - Register @Voice to open web links directly or add shared web links to reading lists more seamlessly.
• Premium home-screen widget - A home-screen playback widget is tied to the premium license.
• No account required for core reading - You can use the main reading features without signing up.
• Saved web passwords - Keep login credentials for pages opened through @Voice's web-loading flow.
• Clear saved passwords and cookies - Remove stored web credentials or browsing data.
• Tutorial - Replay the in-app guided introduction any time.
• Context-sensitive help - Built-in help and explanations for major screens.
• Article information screen - See source, progress, language, and other metadata about the current item.
• About screen - Version, credits, and legal information.
• Voice-data diagnostics - Check installed TTS engines and troubleshoot damaged voice data.
• Report filtering problems or bugs - Send feedback when article extraction or app behavior is wrong.
• Refresh server-side configuration - Pull updated content filters and configuration from the network.
• Rate and update the app - Jump to the app-store page or version-update flow.
• Android Auto plugin support - Install and use the companion plugin for in-car listening.
• Floating button and notification controls - Control playback from outside the main app UI, including lock-screen and notification-style controls.
• Battery-optimization guidance - Built-in prompts help you keep background reading reliable on aggressive Android power managers.