SchriftOhr
Not claimedSchriftOhr turns the books you already have into something you can listen to, and keeps…
By RFRMD Word Labs LLC · EducationWhy we expect it: Thoughtful accessibility features, offline neural voices, and syncing across devices make SchriftOhr a clear, well-considered listening app for readers.
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SchriftOhr turns the books you already have into something you can listen to, and keeps your place, your notes and your library the same on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Open an EPUB, a PDF, a Markdown or text file, a comic or an audiobook. SchriftOhr reads EPUBs, PDFs and Markdown aloud with the sentence highlighted and the words underlined as they are spoken. Your place is saved as you go, and the book opens where you left it — on the phone, the iPad or the Mac.
TWO KINDS OF VOICES • Apple’s voices, including the premium ones you install in Settings. • A neural voice that runs entirely on your device, in full precision. Download it once over Wi‑Fi and it reads offline, with no account and no subscription. It learns the way you say names, and Deeper makes any voice lower. • With a little effort you can give a book a cast: each character in a voice of their own, worked out from the text.
MADE TO LISTEN • Screen off listening: leave the page untouched and it dims and turns off; a tap brings it back. After an hour, the app offers an eye break. • A sleep timer that fades the voice down, a driving view with big controls, and a page turner that turns the pages silently at a speed you set. • Speed, text size, highlight color, and the OpenDyslexic font. • Prepared audio: chapters made ahead while charging, so long listens cost less battery.
A LIBRARY OF YOUR OWN • Keep a copy of any book in your library, named for its author and title, and it follows you to your iPhone, iPad and Mac through iCloud. Or add a folder of your own and read its books where they are. • Locations: every place in a book has a number, the same on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Type it and you are there. • A shelf of free SchriftOhr Editions, proofed and set to be read aloud, and a catalog of public-domain books to search. • Two ways to see a book: the reader’s own pages, or the Publisher view, which shows the book as its maker laid it out.
YOUR THOUGHTS, KEPT • Keep passages with five pens and a note on each; the Notebook gathers them in reading order. • Compile your thoughts into a book report: three questions to answer as you read, and the passages you marked in violet, gathered as one Markdown page for MarkSchrift or any editor.
LISTENING IMPROVEMENTS • Footnotes are stepped over when the voice reads, or read aloud if you prefer; a notes chapter at the back can be skipped too. • Teach unusual pronunciations to the system so your book reads them correctly if they sound off initially.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your books, your place, your notes and any audio you make stay on your devices and in your own iCloud. We collect nothing. The privacy policy names every service the app talks to. • One purchase for iPhone, iPad and Mac. No account, no subscription.
You are responsible for having the right to read or copy the books you open. Audio SchriftOhr makes is for your own personal use.
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