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Tried Speechify on my phone and found it terrible. Hated the navigation and found the pricing model ridiculous. Deleted it and stuck with Voice Dream Reader. It’s the first app I install on every iPhone, and where I keep all my reading - articles, ebooks, and even physical books which I scan just so I can read them inside VDR. I can read with my eyes. I can listen to the text while doing other things. And I can take highlights and notes and export them.

This also is my answer to OP. I save these articles to VDR. And when I have time to read or listen to something, I open the app. It helps that VDR shows me the length of each document in terms of reading time. When you ask me how long a particular book was, I’ll say “It’s a 12 hour book”. Really helps to put things in perspective.



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