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The long read you meant to get to: listen to it on a walk or on the train instead.
Read text out loud. Paste it, then listen.
Want a text read out loud? Copy an article, an email or your own notes and paste it into the Outloud Reader app for iPhone, iPad and Android: it’s read aloud in a natural voice while each phrase is highlighted. A long text becomes several pages of one book.
Free to download · iOS & Android · No sign-up
Quick answer
Copy the text from anywhere, start a new book in Outloud Reader, choose Text and paste it. Tap Create, and it’s read aloud in a natural voice while each phrase is highlighted; a long text is split into pages of up to 2,500 characters. Listen at any speed from 0.5× to 1.25×.
How to paste text
and hear it read aloud.
Copy it from anywhere, paste it in, and press play.
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Copy the text
An article, an email, a letter or your own notes: copy it from anywhere.
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Paste it into the app
Start a new book in the app, choose Text and paste it.
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Choose the language to hear
Choose the text’s own language 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
A long text is split into pages of up to 2,500 characters and read aloud like any other book, each phrase highlighted. You can add several pages, each with its own text, to one book, and add more pages to a book later.
Read text aloud, your way.
Once it’s a book, you choose how to listen.
- Any speed from 0.5× to 1.25×, and each sentence repeated up to five times.
- Follow the highlight, read with your own eyes, or hide the text and just listen.
- Light, sepia or dark, with contrast, text size and line spacing to suit you.
- A woman’s or a man’s voice in every language except French, which has a woman’s.
Text to audio,
for anything you can copy.
If you can copy it, you can listen to it.
Emails
Emails and letters
Paste a long email or a letter and hear it read aloud while each phrase lights up.
Notes
Your own notes
Paste the notes you typed, and they’re split into pages and read aloud, so you can revise by ear.
Italian, B1
A text in the language you’re learning
Paste a text in that language and read along as you listen. Slow it down, or repeat a sentence before you move on.
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 pasted text.
Something else? Write to support@outloudreader.app and a person will answer.
Is this an online text to speech tool?
No, it’s an app. Paste the text in the app; the text is voiced online, and the audio is then kept on your device, in your library, to play again as often as you like.
How long can the text be?
A long text is split into pages of up to 2,500 characters each, and up to 50 pages go into one book. Each page is one page of your balance. Any text up to 2,500 characters counts as one whole page, however short. You can add several pages, each with its own text, to one book, and add more pages to a book later.
Is there a free text to speech website?
Outloud Reader is an app for iPhone, iPad and Android, not a website. It’s free to download, a few pages are free to try, and playing a finished book again costs nothing. More pages come in packs or with Premium; prices are shown in the app. The audio is made online and then plays offline.
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.
Can I download the audio as an MP3?
No. The audio stays in your library in the app, ready to play again as often as you like, at no cost. It isn’t exported as a file.