14 languages, natural voices
From English and Spanish to Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese: 14 languages, with a woman’s or a man’s voice in all but French.
Text to speech from a photo. No typing, no copying.
A text to speech app usually wants text. Here a photo is enough: photograph a page or pick a picture, and the text is recognised for you, then read aloud in a natural voice in one of 14 languages, each phrase highlighted.
Free to download · iOS & Android · No sign-up
Quick answer
Outloud Reader is text to speech that starts from a photo: photograph a page or pick a picture, and the text is recognised for you and read aloud in a natural voice. Choose one of 14 languages and a woman’s or a man’s voice (French has a woman’s), and have the page translated before it’s read if you like.
Photo, text, voice:
three steps.
What a text to speech app does, with the typing left out.
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Take the photo
Start a new book and choose Camera, or Gallery for a photo you already have. The app finds the page in the photo and crops it.
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Choose the voice
Choose the language and the voice. Pick a language other than the page’s, and the text is translated before it’s spoken.
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Listen at your speed
Tap Create. The text is spoken in a natural voice, at any speed from 0.5× to 1.25×, with each phrase highlighted as it’s read.
Good photos for text to speech. Printed and sharp.
The clearer the text in the photo, the better it’s recognised. It works well with:
- Printed pages: books, textbooks, articles and handouts.
- Worksheets and letters, photographed flat and straight.
- Screenshots, picked from your gallery.
- Text in a language you want to hear in yours.
Clear handwriting often works; messy handwriting may not be recognised. Very small or blurred text, or a page shot at an angle, may not be read either.
Get the appVoices, internet
and price.
Not an offline reader
Turning a photo into speech happens online, so making a book needs a connection. The finished audio plays offline.
Pages, not minutes
You pay per page, not per minute of audio: each photo is a page, and playing it again costs nothing. Pages come in packs or with Premium.
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 text to speech.
Something else? Write to support@outloudreader.app and a person will answer.
Do I have to type or copy the text?
No. The text in the photo is recognised for you. If you already have it as text, paste it instead.
Does it work offline?
Not for making a book: the text is recognised and voiced online. Once a book is made, it plays offline, as often as you like.
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.