Hi everyone,
I’m happy to announce that Vox Libri 1.16 is now available on the App Store.
Vox Libri is an accessible ebook reader designed with VoiceOver users in mind, and it’s available for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
What’s new in version 1.16
- 📚 New supported formats: You can now read HTMLZ and RTFD books.
- 📖 Improved EPUB import with better handling of malformed packages and internationalization issues. We had to give the letter “ñ” a little more love. 🙂
- ⌚ Improvements to the Apple Watch app, including a better VoiceOver experience.
- 🔤 New option to control the punctuation verbosity level while reading.
- 🔄 You can now choose to skip syncing your reading position when opening a book.
- ⚡ Performance improvements that:
- Reduce battery usage on iPhone.
- Make screen freezes less frequent on macOS.
- Improve reading with the VoiceOver focus.
- 🎧 Better management of connected headphones.
- 🖼️ Improved importing of books that contain OCR text in images.
- ⚙️ New capabilities for the Shortcuts app.
- 🎵 Beta: Read while listening to your favorite music.
Vox Libri is currently available in:
- English
- Spanish
- French
- Italian
- Greek
You can download Vox Libri from the App Store
As always, I’d love to hear your feedback, feature requests, and bug reports. Thank you to everyone who has been testing the app and helping make it better!
Comments
Support for additional TTS voices
Hi Jonathan,
I wanted to follow up on something you'd mentioned previously: the possibility of adding support for other TTS voices beyond the native iOS voices. Is there any update on this? I ask because there's still no system voice I'd choose over Heather for listening to books, and that remains the main reason I continue to use Voice Dream Reader. Being able to use Heather (or other non-native voices) within Vox Libri would make a real difference for me in switching over.
Thanks again for all the continued work on the app.