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.
Flip between the extension and the web app. Press play — it reads out loud and highlights every word.
Ready
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, and take it at whatever pace suits the day. The rest — what you can bring it, and what each product does with it — is below.
Follow along as you listen
An AI voice reads every word out loud while it lights up on the page — you're seeing it and hearing it at the same moment. Two channels into your brain instead of one, so you catch more, lose your place less, and reading stops feeling like a fight.
The harbour had been quiet since the ferries stopped running, and the town had learned to live at the pace of the tide. Ólafur walked the length of the pier every morning, counting the boats that were left. There were nine, then seven, then five. He never said the number out loud, but he kept it the way other people keep a prayer.
Listen at your own pace
For a fast brain, reading is just too slow — so your attention wanders off. Speed it up and it matches your brain's tempo; suddenly reading moves as fast as you think, and there's nothing to drift from.
Listen to the web without leaving it.
It reads the page you already have open — no copying, no uploading, no second tab. Words light up as they're spoken, the page follows along, and a player you can put anywhere stays with you while you scroll.
Three of them playing for real — press play, then switch tabs.
Six kinds of page, one play button
Four ways to start it
One click starts it — an article from the top, a chat from the model's latest reply. Click again to pause.
Hover any paragraph and it slides in beside it. On a chat, every reply keeps one permanently.
A Listen pill appears next to the selection. Or right-click and pick Listen to selection.
K plays and pauses, J and L jump ten seconds, < and > change speed. Ignored while you're typing.
One bar that belongs to you, not to the page.
It lives in its own shadow root, so no site's stylesheet can touch it — and it stays out of the way of a chat's composer instead of sitting on top of it.
- Drag it anywhere, or collapse it to a single orb. It remembers where you put it and how you left it.
- 67 voices, searchable by language. Change voice mid-article and it picks up from the sentence you were on, not the top.
- 0.5× to 3×, applied live, pitch intact. Ten seconds back and forward on either side of play.
- Light or dark, following the page it's sitting on.
It knows a chat when it sees one
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and Kimi are matched by hand. When
those selectors break — and they do, since DeepSeek's message rows are
named _9663006 this week — a detector finds the conversation
from its layout alone, so a chat product we've never seen still gets a
button on every reply.
And what not to read
Reasoning panes, code listings, citation markers and the Copy/Retry chrome are all skipped. If a reply is still streaming it waits for it, rather than reading your own prompt back to you.
The page keeps up with you
It scrolls itself as it reads, so the word being spoken stays on screen — including inside a chat's own scrolling column, which isn't the window. Start scrolling yourself and it stops fighting you.
It tells you what went wrong
Server unreachable, signed out, trial used up — each one is a sentence in the player with the action that fixes it, not a silent button that does nothing when you press it.
Hand it anything. It opens as itself.
A file, a link, a photo of a page, a lecture recording, or text you pasted — six ways in, one library, and a reader that draws each one the way that kind of thing is meant to look.
Six ways in
Everything under + New. If it has words in it, one of these takes it.
A file you've got
PDF, EPUB, Word, Markdown, 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.
Everything lands in My Files
Whatever route it came in by, it's saved the moment it arrives and sorted by what it is — so the lecture you transcribed in March isn't lost among the PDFs.
- Five filters, one per kind. Documents, transcripts, scans, links and recordings.
- Folders you can rearrange. Make one, drag things into it, rename or move them later.
- Tidy up in one go. Select several at once and delete them together.
- It reopens where you left off, down to the sentence — and the next one starts playing on its own if you want it to.
Six kinds of thing, six ways of showing them
A document stays a document, with the words lit on the page where they are printed. A photo stays a photo. A transcript keeps its timestamps. One highlight, one set of controls, six surfaces.
- EPUB
- DOCX
- TXT
- MD
- HTML
- RTF
Seven formats, one category. A PDF is rendered as the real page with each word lit in place by its own rectangle — click a word on the page and the audio jumps there. An EPUB keeps its running head and its chapters, a Word file its headings, a letter its date.
Straight into the reader, no file and no character cap. A whole chapter is as fine as a line.
The article as fetched, with the navigation, the pop-ups and the related-stories rail gone.
Paginated, in timestamped chunks with the time range on every one, so you can find the bit you needed.
Your photograph, with the words found on it boxed where they sit. The highlight tracks across the picture.
What you dictated, written out and read back — with the clip's own length on the bar.
Books are their own shelf: 278 classics, chapters and all — see the library.
Inside Documents
The one category that holds more than one thing. Each of its seven formats keeps the furniture that makes it readable — a paper holds its figure and caption, a book its running head and drop cap, a letter its date and signature — rather than being flattened into a wall of text.
Every tab is a real document in its own layout — switch between them and play any one.
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 to 0.5× to follow closely, or push to 4.5× 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.