Voice Brief - text to speech voice assistant for news email and more app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 7538 ratings )

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Developer: Dong Baik

2.99 USD

Current version: 1.81, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 09 Mar 2011
App size: 254.58 Mb

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Voice Brief does whats missing in Siri, and it works on all iPhone versions.
Voice Brief reads aloud your customized contents of:
- Calendar
- Weather
- RSS news (Retrieves full websites and read)
- Google Reader (Retrieve full websites and read)
- Email*
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Stock prices
- Gmail notification
- Any custom sentence you type

*:Unlimited number of IMAP Email account: requires in-app purchase.

Quality? - PLEASE SEE previous users rating!
Do not waste your time and money with poor copy cats products.

BIG PRESS REVIEWS:
★★★★★ TUAW.com says, "Want an assistant to help you keep up with your world and the world at large? Voice Brief might be just the thing."
★★★★★ App Advice says, “The interface for Voice Brief is slick and it’s a great, simple way to get all your information read to you without needing to do anything besides listen.”
★★★★★ 9to5mac says, “...staying on top of things is a breeze with this nifty app.”
★★★★✫ MacWorld.com says, "Voice Brief seems like the winner among voice assistant apps."
★★★★✫ 148apps says, “This is a very well designed app that really goes the extra mile...”
★★★★✫ PCworld says, “Voice Brief seems like a winner...”
★★★★✫ ZDNet says, “Voice Brief is like a sister of Siri...”

You bought iPhone to increase your productivity? But, think about what you are doing! You get up in the morning, check weather, mail, stock price, schedule of the day, stock prices, and maybe some news of your interest and maybe check twitter and facebook... Jumping from app to app wasting your time! Well, we know you do this again when you start your day at work, lunch break and on the way home... Dont you?

How can we stay on top of all those information without spending time? How can we use our incredible iPhone the right way?
How about hiring someone to read them one by one while you are driving, eating, or brushing your teeth?

Voice brief reads them all with clear voice, lets you fully customize the content from your email, weather, calendar, gmail, news feeds, stock price, twitter and facebook...
Touch of one button, or with built in Alarm, Voice Brief collects all these information and pleasantly read them while you are driving, eating, etc... You will feel like you were Tony Stark, or have your own Hal9000 (it doesnt kill you though).

Interface is just like music player you dont have to learn how to use, works with remote, airplay, blue tooth. Quality? See how many stars we got from user review.

Voice Brief Features:
• Customizable contents.
• Built-in Alarm - wake up with your own news.
• World’s best voice synthesis
• Four different high-quality voices
• Works with any remote control, bluetooth audio
• Airplay
• Background listening with multi-tasking
• Internal web browser
• Musical bridge.
• On-the-fly News Share via facebook and twitter.
• Voice synthesis within your phone - (Private, Secure, no data usage)

•••• Watch a short demo video of Voice Brief in action : www.VoiceBriefWeb.com •••

::PLEASE NOTE::

• The size of application is large because,
1. High quality voice synthesis.
2. Your private information stay in your iPhone.
(unlike cloud base text to speech that sends your private text to server to get the audio data )
3. Does not waste your data plan (Audio data generated right within your phone)
• Direct access to iOS email/Text is not permitted by Apple.

::FEATURE REQUESTS, REPORTING BUGS::
- Please contact - [email protected]

Note: Voice Brief currently supports only English.

Pros and cons of Voice Brief - text to speech voice assistant for news email and more app for iPhone and iPad

Voice Brief - text to speech voice assistant for news email and more app good for

It doesnt say the last word of calendar appointments. Ipad2 5.01

Misses multilang...you guys could easily use IVONA synth voices with your app but you make no efforts to...its a real shame... Cheers, Seb, Paris

It works pretty nice, especially after update...its very useful! Maybe multiple alarms, more sounds alarms and including other mail servers besides gmail would make the app much complete.

But useless if there is no Support for German Voice :( Please update!

Thanks it is in Daily use, German Language would be appreciated

Really cool app, but only reads the headers in google reader, wont read the whole story. Hmmm..

Some bad moments

... unfortunatly only available with two English voices. It sounds completely ridiculous when the entries in German language of my calender are pronounced in English. Immediate update of different language packages needed - then itll get all 5 stars

I saw the promo videos on the developers website and was very eager to get this app -- only once I did I was disappointed with its limited content. I got the full version thinking what a time saver. Nope -- not unless I want to hear an inaccurate weather forecast or only a handful of other limited content. This app is limited to only a few select sources, so you cant listen to your email unless you use Gmail (I dont), their weather provider (weatherwund) which got my location right but the forecast is way off. It does read Facebook, twitter and RSS feeds well, but if you dont limit each it goes on for freekin ever. The only useful feature is reading out my calendar. I was hoping to add my various email accounts, news and information apps, even text messages -- but I guess even plain text is beyond this apps abilities. The voices are exceptionally crisp and clear. Maybe the developer spent all their time on the voicing -- because it is by far the clearest computer generated voice I have ever heard. Too bad it just doesnt have much to say.

Good app, but it has little use to me when it supports adding only 1 gmail account. I have 3 I use, plus 1 MobileMe account. If you add support for this, you get 5 stars.

It just isnt very useful. I have to think the other reviewers have some financial interest in the product.

Weather underground has my city, I can check weather online. The app searches and allows me to add my city. However The app does not display it. Disappointing. Great potential..

Have given authority on an iPod 4 and now On a iPod 5 and the notifications from gmail still does not. Would love to buy the extra email, but until the notification for email works I will hold off.

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