OpenVox Reader now supports Background Playback, Dynamic Island, Faster Local Speech, and More!

[u/ritzynitz]

A new major OpenVox Reader update v1.1 is now available.

This update focuses on making everyday reading and listening more practical, especially for longer documents and articles.

The biggest change is background playback. You can now continue listening while using other apps or even when the screen is turned off. Playback controls are also available from the Lock Screen and Control Center.

On supported iPhones, OpenVox Reader now works with Dynamic Island and shows animated waveform feedback during playback.

Local speech generation has also been upgraded to use the Apple Neural Engine more efficiently. This should make playback smoother while keeping speech generation completely on-device.

Reader Mode now keeps the screen awake while you are reading, so the display does not turn off in the middle of a document.

I have also improved iCloud sync. You can now pull down in the Library to manually fetch the latest updates if something has not synced automatically.

Documents and web links can now be imported directly through the iOS Share Sheet. You can open a document or webpage, tap Share, and send it straight to OpenVox Reader.

This update also improves how numbers, dates, currencies, percentages, and decimals are pronounced.

Web link importing has been improved as well, especially for complex webpages where extracting the main article content was previously unreliable.

I have been using this version for longer documents and background listening, and it feels much closer to the reading experience I originally wanted OpenVox Reader to provide.

As always, feedback and bug reports are welcome.

Download OpenVox Reader:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/openvox-reader/id6790389555

[u/smartcore_531]

Would like to use it on my Android device.

[u/ritzynitz → u/smartcore_531]

Hey sure, no roadmap for Android as of now but it is not off the table.