Listen to anything.
Articles, PDFs, books, messages — or any text you paste. ReadVoice reads it out loud in a natural voice and highlights every word as it goes, so it's easy to follow along.
Press play. This is exactly how it sounds and follows along.
One for the web. One for everything else.
The browser extension
Reads the page you're already on.
News, blogs, documentation, email, an AI chat — hover a paragraph and press play. Nothing to copy, nothing to upload.
See how it works →The web app
Reads anything you hand it.
Paste a message, a recipe, an essay. Drop in a PDF, an EPUB, a Word file. Or open one of the 278 books already waiting there.
See how it works →More than a play button.
Follow the words as they're spoken, take it at your own pace, point your camera at a printed page, and bring in anything you've got.
Follow along as you listen
Every word lights up the moment it's spoken, so your eyes never lose the place.
Listen at your own pace
Slow it down to follow closely, or push through a chapter. The voice keeps its pitch.
Snap a photo, hear the page
Point your camera at a real book or a letter. The text is lifted off the photo and read back, highlighted where it sits on the picture.
Bring it anything
Files, links, photos, recordings, or a page you're already looking at.
Listen to the web without leaving it.
ReadVoice reads the page itself, right where it is. Hover a paragraph and a play button appears. Highlight a sentence and a Listen button pops up beside it. The words light up as they're spoken while you keep scrolling.
Press play — then switch tabs and play a different kind of page.
Start from any paragraph
Hover and a small play button slides in beside it. Useful when you only want the bit halfway down the page.
Or just select the text
Highlight a sentence anywhere on any site and a Listen button appears next to your selection.
Built for long AI answers
On ChatGPT and Claude every reply gets its own play button, so you can listen to a long answer instead of scrolling it.
The page keeps up with you
It scrolls itself as it reads, so the word being spoken stays on screen — and the player pill can be dragged wherever it's out of your way.
Paste it, drop it, listen to it.
Anything that's text will play. A long message from a friend, an email you can't face reading, the terms you're supposed to have read — paste it in and press play. No length limit, no file needed.
A message you were sent, read back to you
Copy anything — a text from a friend, a wall of an email, the small print on a form — drop it in the box and press play. There's no character cap, so a whole chapter pasted in is just as fine as a paragraph.
- Tap any word to jump there. Missed a sentence? Click it and it reads from there.
- Speed up without the squeak. 0.8× to 2.5×, changed mid-sentence, voices still sound human.
- Everything you open is saved, in folders you can rearrange — and it reopens where you left off.
Or drop in a file
Every one of these is parsed the moment it lands — and read back to you looking like itself, not flattened into a wall of plain text. Pick one and press play.
Six formats, six real documents — switch between them and play any one.
If it has words in it, it can be read to you.
A file is only the obvious one. Photograph a page of a paperback, paste a link, hand it a lecture recording, or just say it out loud — all of it ends up in the same reader, with the same highlighting.
A file you've got
PDF, EPUB, Word, HTML, RTF or plain text. Drop it straight onto the page.
A photo of a page
Snap the page of a real book and the words are lifted off the picture — then highlighted where they sit on the photo as it reads.
A link you can't face
Paste the address and ReadVoice fetches the page, strips the clutter and reads the article.
A video or a recording
A YouTube link, a lecture, a voice note. It's written out in short timestamped chunks — see how that reads.
Your own voice
Talk and watch it appear as you go. Useful when writing it down is the part that's hard.
Anything you paste
A message, an email, the small print. No length limit, and nothing to save first.
278 classic books, free, ready to play.
Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby — sorted into 13 shelves. Tap a cover and chapter one starts. It remembers the chapter you were on, so you can pick it back up tomorrow.
Shakespeare · Detective & Mystery · Science Fiction · Horror & Gothic · Philosophy · Essential Novels · Adventure · Poetry · Biography · and four more
Read along to a lecture or a video.
Paste a YouTube link or drop in a recording and ReadVoice writes it out for you — split into short, timestamped chunks you can actually search through instead of scrubbing back and forth.
- Click a word, hear that moment of the recording.
- Read ahead without stopping it — a button brings you back to where it's playing.
Right, so last week we finished the section on inheritance…
…and today I want to pick up where that left off.
Before we do, a quick recap of the two mechanisms.
Set it up the way your eyes want it.
There's no single colour or typeface that helps everyone read more easily — so all of it is yours to change. The swatches and typefaces on the demo above are the real ones; try them and see what feels better.
Typefaces that help
Five to choose from, including OpenDyslexic and Atkinson Hyperlegible — the latter drawn for low vision, and used for every word on this page.
Pick your highlight colour
Soft green, soft blue, rose or warm orange. Whichever you choose, the word being read stays sharply legible against it.
Any speed, still human
Slow it down to follow closely or push to 2.5× to get through a chapter. The voice keeps its pitch — no chipmunk.
23 languages, 67 voices
English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin, German, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Icelandic and a dozen more.
Voices you can swap
Change voice in the middle of a sentence and it carries on from the same word in the new one.
A gentle nudge
Set a daily listening goal and ReadVoice keeps a quiet count of how much you got through this week.
Anything else?
Do I need both the extension and the app?
No — pick whichever fits. The extension is for reading pages you're already on: news, blogs, documentation, an AI chat. The app is for everything else: text you paste, files you drop in, and the built-in books. Most people end up using both without thinking about it.
Do I need an account?
To listen, yes — an email address and a password, which is what the free 30 minutes a month are counted against. The demos on this page need nothing at all: press play on any of them and you'll hear the same engine before you decide.
Is the demo on this page a real recording?
It's the real voice engine, reading those passages. Press play and what you hear — including the way the highlight lands on each word — is exactly what you get.
What does it cost?
A free account gets 30 minutes of listening a month — roughly a few articles, or a chapter — with every feature switched on. No card to sign up. Listening beyond that is a paid subscription, and you'll see the price before you're asked for a card. Cancel any time.
What happens when my 30 minutes run out?
Playback stops and you're offered the paid plan. Nothing is deleted and nothing is locked: your library, your files and your place in every document are all still there, and the allowance resets at the start of the next month. You're never charged automatically.
Is the free 30 minutes a cut-down version?
No. It's the whole product — every voice, every language, every file format, the books, the extension and the reading settings. The only thing the paid plan changes is how long you can listen for.
Can it read something really long?
Yes — there's no character cap, so paste a whole book if you like. Long documents start playing within a few seconds and keep preparing the rest while you listen, so you're never sat waiting for a progress bar. What's metered is listening time, not the size of what you open.
What languages does it speak?
Twenty-three, with sixty-seven voices between them — English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Greek, Icelandic, Hindi, Japanese and Mandarin among them. Most have both a male and a female voice, and English and Spanish come in more than one accent.
Will it work on a scanned PDF?
Ordinary PDFs are fine. If a PDF is really just photographs of pages with no text underneath, ReadVoice says so when you add it rather than reading you silence — reading those directly is still on the list. In the meantime a photo or a screenshot of the page does work: add it with Scan a page and the text is lifted off the image and read back.
Does it help with dyslexia or ADHD?
Plenty of people find that hearing text while watching the words light up makes it far easier to stay with — that's who this was built for. It isn't a medical device and we won't pretend it's a treatment, but the fonts, colours, speeds and highlighting are all here to be adjusted until reading stops being a fight.
Can I listen to YouTube videos?
Paste a link and ReadVoice writes out what's said, split into short timestamped sections you can read along with or skim. The same works for an audio or video file off your own computer.
Get ReadVoice
Wherever you read.
Start with 30 minutes of listening a month, free, in the browser today — the rest is on the way.
In your browser
The full reader. Paste text, drop in a file, or open one of the 278 books. Nothing to install.
On every website
Add the extension to Chrome and press play on the page you're already reading.
On desktop
A Mac and Windows app, so your library and your place travel with you offline.
On mobile
iPhone and Android — listen on the walk, point the camera at a printed page.
The browser extension and the web app are here now. Desktop and mobile aren't built yet — we'd rather say so than take your email for a waiting list.