Read my notes aloud, phrase by phrase
The phrase being spoken is highlighted and its sentence is set in black, so your eyes and ears stay on the same line of your notes.
Text to speech for students. Listen to your lecture notes.
Photograph your lecture notes, a handout or a page of the textbook, open a PDF or paste your own notes. Outloud Reader reads it aloud in a natural voice and highlights each phrase as it’s spoken, so you can revise on the bus or on a walk.
Free to download · iOS & Android · No sign-up
Quick answer
Outloud Reader is a text to speech app for students. Photograph your lecture notes, a handout or a textbook page, open a PDF of the slides or paste your own notes, and it’s read aloud in a natural voice with each phrase highlighted. Speed it up to 1.25× or slow it down to 0.5×, and play it again as often as you like, free.
Revise on the go.
Read with your ears.
Your notes become an audio book you can play from your pocket, as often as you like.
Fast or slow
Speed it up to 1.25× for a quick review, or slow it down to 0.5× for the hard parts.
Test yourself
Hide the text, listen, and hold to check a line. Or follow the highlight, or read with your own eyes.
Built for revision
Put a whole lecture into one book, repeat each sentence up to five times before the exam, and play it again as often as you like.
Lecture notes, handouts, textbooks. Listen to them.
Photograph the pages after class. By the time you’re on the bus, they’re an audio book you can play from your pocket.
- Photograph your notes or the handout, page after page.
- Took photos of the board? Pick them from your gallery.
- Open a PDF of the slides or the reading, and choose just the pages you need.
- Paste your own notes, and they’re split into pages and read aloud.
- Studying in a language that isn’t yours? Have the page translated before it’s read, or hear it as printed.
How it works.
Bring a page, then listen.
No catalogue and no textbook store: Outloud Reader reads the pages you bring it.
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Bring your notes
Photograph pages one after another, pick photos from your gallery, choose pages from a PDF, or paste text.
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It becomes an audio book
The text is recognised from your photos and read by a natural voice. Up to 50 pages go into one book.
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Listen and follow
Press play. The phrase being spoken is highlighted, so you can follow along at your desk or just listen on the way.
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 students ask.
Something else? Write to support@outloudreader.app and a person will answer.
Can it read a handout or a textbook page aloud?
Yes. Photograph the page, or pick a photo you already took, and it’s read aloud with each phrase highlighted. Photograph page after page and they become one book.
Can I listen to lecture slides in a PDF?
Yes. Open the PDF, choose which pages to listen to, and crop away headers, footers and page numbers you don’t want read out.
Does listening again cost anything?
No. Playing a book again is free, as often as you like. Pages are used only when a book is made; see pricing.
Can it read in the language of my course?
It reads in 14 languages. Choose the page’s own language to hear it as printed, or another one to have it translated first.