Accessibility
EbookVoice is built with blind and print-disabled readers, and they are its most demanding users. VoiceOver correctness is treated as part of the product, not as polish added afterwards. This page says what works, what doesn't yet, and how to reach the person who fixes it.
Who this is for
If you read with a screen reader, most ebooks are readable but few are listenable — a screen reader's default voice, no chapter structure, no memory of where you stopped. EbookVoice takes an EPUB, Word or DAISY file and turns it into a proper audiobook: a narrator chosen for the job, chapter navigation, background playback, and a resume point that follows you between devices. Books that never got an audiobook edition become ones you can actually finish.
VoiceOver on iPhone and iPad
- Every screen is tested with VoiceOver. Library, book search, upload, language and voice selection, conversion progress, the player and settings are all operable by swipe and double-tap.
- Controls are labelled. Play/pause, skip, chapter, speed and voice-preview buttons announce what they do, not "button".
- The player works without sight. The position scrubber announces elapsed and total time as a value; chapter, speed and skip controls are plain buttons reachable by swipe.
- Lock-screen and headphone controls. Play, pause and skip work from the lock screen, Bluetooth headphones and CarPlay, so you rarely need the app open at all.
- Voice previews play in their own language. Every narrator can be auditioned before you commit a conversion.
Input formats that matter here
- DAISY (.zip) — accepted directly, alongside EPUB and Word (.docx).
- Public-domain library — about 75,000 Project Gutenberg titles are searchable in the app, so you can start without sourcing a file.
- PDF is not supported yet. If a PDF-to-audiobook path matters to you, say so — it is on the list and your use case moves it.
Read-along and low vision
The player shows the book text with each spoken word highlighted and follows your system text size. For VoiceOver and braille users the read-along view exposes one element per paragraph rather than one per word, so it can be read as prose instead of a wall of fragments. This is designed for low-vision and dyslexic readers as much as for sighted ones.
Known limitations
- Playback speed tops out at 2× in the current release. The next update raises it to 3×, makes the speed control adjustable with VoiceOver, and fixes seeking with the position slider under VoiceOver.
- The web version at ebookvoice.com works with desktop screen readers but does not offer background playback — browsers don't allow it for web apps. iOS is the recommended platform.
- Android is not currently available.
Report a problem — it reaches the developer
EbookVoice is made by a single independent developer, and accessibility bugs are treated as outages. Email youmbidev@gmail.com with what you were doing and what VoiceOver said; you will get a personal reply. If you found EbookVoice through the AppleVis community, the discussion thread there is read daily too.
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