Capti Voice App Reviews

I love that I can change font and color scheme now - it makes the reading much easier. So now I need only one app for both reading and listening. Bye, Kindle!

This was a decent app, until the update. Quick utilization and offline mode for dead zones was efficient in the previous app version. I hope Capti can return to the state it was.

Now I can listen to as well as read the Project Gutenberg books I find.

This may be a serviceable app, but the painfully slow speech rate will drive even a patient user crazy in moments. Unless you are so payed back that your almost comatose, choose something else.

Im grad student. This works great for PDFs and word documents on my iPhone. It even takes bullets out for easier reading. Great speed control to your preference or need. Also can get your documents from Google Drive or dropbox. I only wish they had different voices to give some variety that you dont have to pay for, but they have trials for some and they have quite a few different voices from different English accents and also other languages. Love this when I just cant read anymore! Like books on tape!

I love this app. I have dyslexia and ADHD and find that using audio for my text books makes a big difference. This app is so easy to use with programs like Bookshare, who do not have an app for the iPhone yet. I am a masters student and need something that is easy and works the way I need it to because I dont have time to mess with complicated apps or technical errors.

Hello there, Capti Support, It has been a little while since I opened your app, and I wanted to revisit it. I noticed that the voices available in the app for purchase are a wide and good selection. They cover a wide range of accents and inflections, important in providing a satisfactory experience to your customer base. However, I noticed a deficiency, the same deficiency I encountered the last time I used your app. In iOS 7, I believe, Apple introduced the Alex voice for use with Voiceover. It was a large but fairly interesting voice, a nice, if occasional, change from the default, Samantha. In iOS 8, Voiceover users were able to select the Siri voices in whatever language they were using, if Siri was available in that language. This made for an even wider array of voices that were available. In iOS 10, released fairly recently, users of Voiceover received quite a pleasant surprise: the addition of several voices of varying quality to the selection available. Whats more, these voices were all free. At present, I have (I believe) twenty-four English voices on my phone, in addition to the non-English voices that will read English fairly well. Since I opened your app for the first time, I was impressed by its feature set. It really is a well-designed app, and it takes advantage of resources on my phone. You see, I, as a Voiceover user, can already read texts from various sources, but Capti marks my place, so if I have to stop reading or if something bumps my screen or if it just goes funny for a second, I would traditionally lose my place. Furthermore, Dropbox in specific, reads punctuation marks at odd intervals, something which is rather disruptive to the reading experience quotation mark. But Capti only shows the default voices for each language: Samantha for U.S. English, Daniel for British English, and so on. And this is where all that talk of being a Voiceover user is truly relevant. If you had had access to only the Siri voices, I would assume that you were tying somehow into the Siri speech engine. But that really wouldnt make sense anyway, as Siris speech engine is available now to Voiceover, which is still an Apple service but is not tied to Siri. Furthermore, you cant select Voiceover voices to be used by the Siri application framework, so its not mutual access. Voiceover is not the only speech service on iOS, but other speech functions can use the afore-mentioned voices. Therefore, if you can use Samantha, it must be available as a free system resource. Therefore, if you can use Samantha, you ought to be able to use the other voices available to Voiceover. Meaning finally that you could, and undoubtedly should, allow users of your app to read in any of the voices available on their devices, rather than limiting them (by accident or by design) to a rather small selection of free voices. As a further technical note, I fully understand that your product is compatible with a wide array of devices. However, it should still be possible to populate your list of voices based on what people have installed. It may even be possible to populate your list based on what people could install, even if they havent. And it should definitely include a note, if you cant offer what they havent installed, directing them as to how and where they can install the additional voices. I look forward to reading with your app soon, when I am greeted by a crowd of free voices, each as able to speak content as your larger and most excellent crowd of paid voices

Havent used the app in awhile, but wanted to start using it again. I was excited to see that it had been updated. I created an account and loaded my PDF. It wont play. Upon looking around the app it has no voices installed and there is no way to download them. No voices means no reading. This app is useless to me.

This app is easy to use and it helps with formats that may otherwise be inaccessible. Some corrections for other reviews: First, there absolutely is a way to change the speed of the narrator it is in the voices setting located in the sidebar that is accessed by clicking the button at the top left of the screen. Second: Bookshare does have an app specifically designated for the service, however it costs $20 and so Capti is a cheaper alternative that works just as well. Enjoy!

This was awesome but then they made it so you have to login to get to the service. And that in itself is just fine, but all the English narrators disappeared and the download area isnt showing up for me. So it is a completely useless app. Even when I tried to email the developer it said I dont have an email address set up on my phone... and I do. Deleting it now.

Simple UI. Right amount of features. Basic edition is already very useful and helpful.

Keep opening the App Store such that I cant even use this app

Just know that you must create an account to use this. And they monitor your usage of the app.

I have been using this app for over a year. Its great for catching up on articles while Im commuting to work or just driving around on a road trip. It would be awesome if there was a way to slow down the speed to less than 100, I think sometimes Samantha (the U.S. Voice) is too fast at 100. Thanks for the recent update of adding pocket to Capti App!

paying for the main app and then the voices too is pretty cheap of the developers Here are the features this app needs: -No iPhone 6+ support -seemingly arbitrary 25MB limit. Hope you hate PDFs. -podcast-esque skip forward/back 15 seconds is infinitely more helpful than f-forward/rewind. -needs URL scheme support for LCP. If they put in these features its worth the money Edit: on the last item, the URL scheme is actually "db-ld8x7j5mmmofxtt:" as I found out from unzipping the .ipa on my computer.

This app is great overall but, it would be great if the app paused a second before each paragraph. Also, it reads money like this. "$2,500" as "two dollar five hundred"

Love it. No problems with app so far!

This has become one of my favorite apps. The idea is fantastic. I listen to my articles and even books every day while I am working on something else. Of course the voices get a little boring after a while but I get used to it. The narrators are not ideal, they dont always have correct emphasis and sometimes seem to omit commas and periods but I guess i get used to it too. I hope that technology improves soon though because I do enjoy the app.

I have to read many technical manuals that quite honestly bore me to tears (rather watch paint dry), this APP has helped tremendously. Question? How can I upload my books from IBOOKS? This would also help.

You wont regret it once you get it to work