A Text-to-Speech App That Saves Your Place

The book record stores a reading location and a sentence anchor for playback. As the reading position changes, the app updates the stored location; normal playback shutdown also captures the current sentence. On resume, the playback code prefers a compatible saved sentence anchor and has a location-based fallback when one is not available.

For the reader, the useful result is simple: you can close a book and come back to where the app recorded your progress. It is not a separate list of favourite passages or a replacement for notes you want to keep for study.

1. Pause at a convenient point if you know you are about to stop.
2. Return to the same book in the library when you are ready.
3. Listen briefly or look at the surrounding text to check the resumed passage.
4. If you need more context, move back before continuing.

A sentence can be a useful technical anchor without being the ideal place to understand a story again. After a long break, replaying a paragraph or rereading the chapter heading can be more helpful than demanding an exact audio timestamp.

The reader stores a location while you navigate the text, while the playback path also uses sentence anchors. Treat these as related ways of locating a passage, not a promise that every scroll updates an exact spoken-word timestamp.

If you switch from listening to silent reading, check the highlighted passage. When you return to narration, confirm it starts where you expect. This small habit is useful with dense material, where you may have looked back several pages without intending to restart the listening session there.

An abrupt interruption can happen before the latest state is persisted. An updated text-segmentation scheme may need the location fallback rather than an older sentence anchor. Removing and reimporting a book creates a different situation from reopening the same library item.

If a repeatable problem occurs, note the app version, file type and the sequence of actions. Test with a harmless sample before sharing a private document. Keep an original copy of important source files; saved progress is not a backup of the book or a guarantee that deleted library data can be recovered.

No. LoudReader does not automatically sync its library or reading position. The other device starts with its own local copy, even if both copies came from the same iCloud Drive file. Note a chapter and distinctive phrase when switching devices.

For initial setup, see the import-and-listen guide. For a portable session, screen-off listening on iPhone explains the controls. Local progress also does not mean the whole app has no network services: the privacy policy covers diagnostics and analytics separately.