Read or translated
The words in a picture can be heard in 14 languages: as they’re written, or translated first, say from a German screenshot into English.
Picture to speech. The words in any picture, read aloud.
Already have the picture? Pick it from your gallery: a screenshot, a photo of a slide, a page someone sent you. Outloud Reader finds the words in it and reads them aloud in a natural voice, highlighting each phrase as it’s spoken.
Free to download · iOS & Android · No sign-up
Quick answer
To turn a picture into speech, start a new book in Outloud Reader, choose Gallery and pick the pictures. The words in each one are recognised and read aloud in a natural voice, each phrase highlighted as it’s spoken. It reads the text in a picture; it doesn’t describe what the picture shows.
From your gallery
to your ears, in three steps.
No new photo needed: the pictures you already have will do.
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Choose Gallery
Start a new book and choose Gallery. Pick one picture or several: each one becomes a page of the same book, up to 50.
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Choose what to hear
Choose the language the words are in to hear them as written, or your own language to have them translated first. Then choose the voice.
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Create and listen
Tap Create. The words are recognised and voiced, the book plays with each phrase highlighted, and it stays in your library.
Which pictures work. Clear words, big enough to read.
A picture reads well when its words are sharp and printed or typed:
- Screenshots of an article, a chat, a post or an email.
- Photos of slides, a whiteboard or a poster, taken straight on.
- A book page or a worksheet someone sent you as an image.
- Signs, labels and menus, in your language or in another one.
Words that are tiny, blurred or drawn into the picture may not be recognised, and messy handwriting often isn’t. A picture with no words in it has nothing to read: it isn’t described.
Get the appBefore you pick
your first picture.
Needs a connection
Pictures are read and voiced online, so adding them needs the internet. Once the book is made, it plays offline and with the screen off.
A picture is a page
Each picture uses one page, however few words it has. Pages come in packs that never expire, or with Premium, weekly or monthly; prices are shown in the app.
Your first 2 pages are free.
Your next page, read aloud.
Outloud Reader for iOS and Android. Your first 2 pages are free.
Free to download · iOS & Android · No sign-up
Questions about pictures.
Something else? Write to support@outloudreader.app and a person will answer.
Does it describe what’s in a picture?
No. It reads the words in a picture aloud. A photo of a landscape or a face, with no text in it, has nothing to read.
Can I pick several pictures at once?
Yes. Pick them together from your gallery: each one becomes a page of the same book, up to 50 pages a book.
Which languages can it read in?
English (US and UK), Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese — with a woman’s or a man’s voice in all of them except French, which has a woman’s voice.
“No text found on this page”
Usually the page is at an angle, in its own shadow, or the phone focused on the edge of the book rather than the text. Lay the book flat, let the camera settle and keep the whole text inside the frame — or paste the text yourself.
Other ways to add a page
Photo to speech
Read text from an image
Text to speech from a photo
Screenshot to speech
Handwriting to speech
PDF to speech