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Subject: Introducing Voice Dream Reader 4.0
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 22:04:30 +0000
From: Winston Chen <winston.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Winston Chen <winston.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Introducing Voice Dream Reader 4.0
Hi,
After one year of development, I'm excited and proud to announce that a
massive update, Voice Dream Reader 4.0 for iOS, will be released this week.
New features include a beautiful new UI, library synchronization, image
and rich text support, new reading modes, 3D Touch and multitasking, and
much more. The complete feature list is at the end of this email.
And best of all, the release will come as a completely free update. We
love our customers, and this is my way of saying "Thanks". Thank you for
spreading the word about Voice Dream Reader.
I want to highlight a few features in the release that I'm particularly
excited about.
* *Pac-man reading mode*. The latest research at MIT and Harvard
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shows that everyone can double their reading speed with no loss of
comprehension. The new technique combines audio, visual, and
attention propulsion that's counter-intuitive. The words disappear
from the page /before/ they're spoken by text-to-speech, forcing the
reader to read ahead visually with audio arriving a fraction of a
second later. With some practice, the results can be staggering.
* *Finger reading*. Some readers, particularly emerging readers,
struggle to follow even the slowest speed, which is also distorted.
With finger reading, the reader traces the words on the screen with
a finger to hear each word, much like how a parent reads for a child.
* *Scanning*. On an iPhone 6s or 6s plus, you can press firmly on the
fast forward button while the app is reading -- also called Force
Touch -- to double the reading speed. Release it slightly to return
to normal speed.
These are just a few of the many discoveries that await you in the new
release.
Permit me to take a moment to wax nostalgia on this project I began more
than 4 years ago when I wrote the first line of code for Voice Dream
Reader. A few days ago, I received this email:
/Subject: Graduation Day/
/Hi Winston,/
/March 29, 2016 will be my last day at Brandeis University and on
May 22, 2016 (commencement date), I will graduate with my Masters of
Science in Health and Medical Informatics from the Graduate
Professional Studies (GPS) at Brandeis. In addition, I was nominated
and accepted as the Student Marshall for the 2016 GPS which is an
honor for me, my family, my fellow students and Voice Dream Reader.
It is your application which has made my educational experience
exhilarating./
/I want to reach out to you and thank you so much for the dedication
you and your family have given to the process of creating Voice
Dream Reader. Your application has freed me from the shackles of the
printed word which had once held me hostage. Today, I'm consuming
the printed word and enjoying the gifts of the authors’ knowledge
the world brings to me through books from Bookshare./
/Thank you again. God bless you and feel free to reach out to me at
any time./
/Sincerely/
/Davis W. Graham/
Over the last 4 years, more than 200,000 people around the world, like
Davis, discovered that the gift of literacy is within easy reach of
everyone. When I'm working into the wee hours of the night tracking down
an elusive bug, I'm deeply thankful for emails like these.
So, more than your spreading the word about Voice Dream Reader, thank
you for making my life's work fulfilling.
Best,
Winston.
Founder, Voice Dream
*What’s New in 4.0.0*
A Beautiful New UI
• Grid view and cover images in the library.
• Improved library organization: filters, flags, and sort order.
• Visual appearance of the entire app uses the current color theme.
• Experimental rich text and image support for all documents.
Library Synchronization
• Your entire library, including folders, reading locations, bookmarks
and annotations are synchronized across all your devices using iCloud Drive.
New Reading Modes
• Finger reading. For beginners to read by at running a finger under
each word.
• Pac-Man. Harvard and MIT developed speed-reading method for everyone
to read at 2x speed with no loss of comprehension.
• Sentence mode. Speech pauses at every sentence. Useful for beginning
readers.
• Repeat mode.
• Option to rewind to beginning of the last sentence when you pause.
New Voices
• Alex, free high quality voice in iOS 9.
• New premium child voices from Acapela in US, UK, and Australian
English, US Spanish, and German.
• Acapela's new flagship German voice: Claudia.
• Emotive variations of Jeroen, Antoine, Margaux, Dimitris and Will.
Other New Features
• Set PDF margins to exclude text in header and footer.
• Up to 4X speed for recorded audio.
• Support for 3D Touch, split-screen multitasking and Spotlight search.
• Safari extension to save Web pages and Web addresses.
• Evernote file attachments.
• Background download for files and voices.
• More accurate language detection.
• Option to hide header and footer in full-screen mode.
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