
So knowing that a product like Narrator can act as a study buddy for those who need to listen in order to really learn their material - well, let's just say that I can sympathize and wish that there was something like that for us visual learners when we were in school. Now, I am a visual learner, so I really appreciate things like diagrams and videos. As a small business owner, Narrator sure has come in handy.Īnother layer of Narrator that again, isn't as apparent - is as a study buddy. Yes, you can read it yourself, but in order to be effective - you really need another voice. So, for one layer, if you're like me, when you write a letter for a business purpose, you need to read it out loud. Narrator is kind of like Shrek, who equates an ogre like an onion - there's lots of layers.

But once you play around a bit, the uses become clear.

It's hard to see, at first, what a product like Narrator can do for you. Personally, I would pay 40 dollars only after the features mentioned above have been included. There are other apps which only costs max 5 dollars and do almost as much as Narrator. What about reading dates and years? Family names? Street, countries, squares, rivers names?
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Just try to teach the app how to pronounce "Venice" in English, or to read "Schönberg" in German or "Seine" in French and see what happens.

However, for 40 dollars (20 now for a few more hours) the application really needs some professional-grade features not available in the current version. It's too bad, because the application in itself is a very good start. I don't expect Mariner to change their attitude in the future. Mariner could have improved this application in many small and larger ways but never did. Version 2.3 has been around for a long time, a very minor update to version 2.2 which itself has been around for ever.
