Chats
A long message
Screenshot the chat and hear it read aloud, each phrase highlighted as it’s spoken.
Screenshot to speech. Hear the text in a picture.
Pick a screenshot or a picture of text from your gallery: a chat, a social post, a slide, an article. Outloud Reader recognises the text in the image and reads it aloud in a natural voice, each phrase highlighted as it’s spoken.
Free to download · iOS & Android · No sign-up
Quick answer
In Outloud Reader, start a new book, choose Gallery and pick the screenshots or pictures of text you want to hear. The text in each image is recognised and read aloud in a natural voice, each phrase highlighted as it’s spoken. Choose another language first and it’s translated before it’s read.
How to read
a screenshot aloud.
From the picture on your phone to the voice in your ears, in four steps.
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Choose Gallery
Start a new book in the app and choose Gallery. Pick one screenshot or several; each one becomes a page of the same book.
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Keep the text you want
Use the picture as it is, or adjust the frame to leave out the parts of the screen you don’t want read. Up to 50 pages go into one book.
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Choose the language to hear
Choose the language of the text to hear it as it is, or another one to have it translated first. Then choose the voice.
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Tap Create and listen
The text is recognised and read aloud in a natural voice. Press play, and the phrase being spoken is highlighted as you listen.
Tips for screenshots. Large, sharp, only the text.
A clear picture reads best. A few things help most:
- Zoom in before you take the screenshot, so the text is large and sharp.
- Adjust the frame to leave out buttons, menus and other parts of the screen.
- A long chat or article? Take several screenshots and pick them all; each becomes a page of the same book.
- Can you copy the text instead? Paste it, and it’s read aloud the same way.
Image to speech,
for what’s already on your phone.
Whatever the text is on your screen, save it as a picture and listen.
Social posts
A post or a thread
Save the post as a picture, pick it in Gallery, and listen to it instead of reading it.
Slides
Slides from a lecture
Took pictures of the slides, or screenshots of them? Pick them, and they become pages of one book to revise by ear.
Articles
A screenshot of an article
The article you saved as a picture: hear it read aloud, translated first if it’s in another language.
Your next page, read aloud.
Outloud Reader for iOS and Android. Your first 5 pages are free.
Free to download · iOS & Android · No sign-up
Questions about screenshots.
Something else? Write to support@outloudreader.app and a person will answer.
Can it read a screenshot aloud?
Yes. Choose Gallery and pick the screenshot; the text in it is recognised and read aloud with each phrase highlighted.
Can I pick several screenshots at once?
Yes. Pick them in Gallery and each one becomes a page of the same book, up to 50 pages.
Does it translate the text in the photo?
Only if you want it to. Choose the page’s own language and it’s read as printed; choose another one and it’s translated first.
What happens to my photos?
To recognise, translate and read your pages, the app sends the photos and text you add to our server, where AI and speech services process them. Photos are deleted after processing, and your data is never sold or used for ads. The details are in the privacy policy.