How does Read It Aloud work?
When you first start up Read It Aloud, it will ask you to log into any of three different services where you can save articles on the web to read later: Read It Later, InstaPaper, or Google Reader (an RSS reader). You must have already signed up for at least one of these services, and in the case of InstaPaper, you must be a paid subscriber there (because they limit external access to paid accounts only). Select one of the services, enter your login credentials, choose the maximum number of paragraphs to read aloud (1, 2, 5, 10, or all), and tap Read It Aloud. The list of articles that you or your RSS reader has saved will appear in abbreviated form. Each article on the list will then be expanded one at a time to display the number of paragraphs you have selected and read aloud. Double-tap on the article to expand and read it in full. You can use the player controls to skip forward/back or pause/play. Tap on any article out of sequence to restart reading aloud from there. Tap the refresh button to check for newly-arrived articles. To start over with an entirely new list, either from the selected service or another one, tap the Start Over button. And finally, Read It Aloud will continue reading aloud from the background after you tap the Home button (unless you tap Pause first).

How long will Read It Aloud keep reading articles aloud?
If kept in the foreground, it can download up to 250 articles from the selected service. It can continue reading them for as long as your battery lasts. As each article may take several minutes to read aloud, this means that the app can read aloud to you all day long. You can, of course, skip articles you're not interested in hearing, or repeat articles that have already been read aloud, or tap on any article out of sequence to begin reading aloud from there on down the article list.

Why does it sometimes read author bios and/or other irrelevant material from an article instead of what I want it to?
There are certain embedded HTML codes and formats that signal web browsers and apps like this where the body or main content of an article resides. Sometimes authors don't use those HTML codes or they place inappropriate content inside the body of articles. In the absence of such codes, Read It Aloud uses additional heuristics to do the best it can to skip over such irrelevant content. As just one example, we assume that if an article's leading line contains less than 40 characters, then it is most likely a list of keywords or bylines or author names (in other words, not part of the article text) and skip it accordingly. A heuristic may fail, of course, and other more refined heuristics may be more appropriate. If you consistently see inappropriate parts of articles, please let us know, since we are continuously updating the heuristics used to parse articles.

I can't seem to download articles from my Google Reader account.
This was a bug in Version 1.0 that has been resolved in the current Version 1.1. If you encounter this problem, please update Read It Aloud from the App Store to fix it. 

Please report any problems or make suggestions by emailing support@voizapp.com. Your feedback will make Read It Aloud even better!