Chimereader: AI Voice Readerv1.0.6

What changed

• UXCustomizable word and sentence highlighting for reading tracking
• New featureSupport for real book covers with manual selection from PDF/EPUB pages
• UXNew 'Read from here' functionality via screen tapping or double-tapping words
• ContentAdded two new AI voices (Rowan and Felix) to replace legacy voices
• UXAutomatic playback from last position upon opening a book
• UXImproved PDF highlight precision and text processing for hyphenated words
• UXRedesigned iPhone interface with full-width page slider and simplified menus
• UXCross-device synchronization of selected voices for specific books
• PerformanceFixed Mac trackpad scrolling issues and iPhone zoom jumping
• PerformanceImproved natural language processing for units, web addresses, and numbers

Original release notes

See exactly what is being read, find your place faster, and see your books' real covers.

New
• Highlighting your way: the word being read, the sentence, or both, in the colour you like. Set it in Settings › Playback, or from the reader's Appearance menu while you read.
• Real covers. Your library, the now-playing card and the lock screen show each book's cover. Not the one you want? "Change cover…" lets you pick any page of a PDF, or any picture in an EPUB, with suggestions to start from.
• Read from here. Scroll or jump anywhere in a book and tap "Read from here" to start at the top of the screen. Double-tap a word to start at that exact word.
• Two new voices, Rowan and Felix. They replace Reed, Cole and Alton; if a book used one of those, it now reads in the closest new voice.
• Opening a book starts reading straight away, from where you left off.

Improved
• In PDFs the highlight now sits exactly on the word being spoken.
• Pages no longer lose their last line, read the chapter title printed in the footer, or split hyphenated words.
• On iPhone: a full-width page slider with a page preview, the voice one tap away in the controls, and a shorter options menu that fits on screen.
• Moving with the page slider works like scrolling: the reading carries on until you choose "Read from here" or "Back to audio".
• Your zoom, and where you keep a zoomed page, are remembered for each book.
• The library keeps titles readable at every width, with a simpler header.
• The voice you choose for a book follows it to your other devices.
• Menus show which voice, speed and options are selected.

Fixed
• Mac: scrolling with the trackpad or mouse while a book is playing no longer snaps back.
• EPUB: highlighting no longer stops for a whole chapter after a picture, and picture file names are no longer read aloud.
• iPhone: the Voice & Speed screen was empty.
• iPhone: pinch zoom no longer jumps when you lift your fingers.
• Opening a book no longer shows its first page before moving to where you left off.
• Units, web addresses and approximate numbers are read naturally.