Description of App
Convert text into natural, expressive speech. Ideal for articles, ePubs, PDFs, or any text. ElevenLabs Reader puts our most capable Text to Speech (TTS) model in your pocket.
App Features
Text Reader: Voice any length of text in high quality, human-like voices
Control reading speed: Speed up or slow down the narrator and listen at whatever speed you like
Works with many types of content: Write text, paste links from the web, upload PDFs or ePubs and have it read aloud
ElevenLabs is an AI Audio research & deployment company. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice. We develop the most realistic, versatile and contextually-aware AI audio models.
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Comments
Is the app available yet?
it's showing coming soon for me. Is it my location?
You mean the basic Reader? I herd of a new one?
I've had the Reader in the UK for months and earlier today it was in the App Store, I was looking for there new app that I had heard about - didn't find that.
E books
Can you use the voices to read? E books or Books on your Kindle.
Seems interesting
I've just downloaded the app on my phone, gonna see what its like, and hopefully they will expand the features over time.
Yes, the basic reader
@Assistive Intellegence Yes, the basic reader. First I tried searching for it in the app store, and then I clicked on the link given here. the same result either time.
Seems Amazing
I've yet to listen to the associated podcast episode or download this app, but it looks great. I've heard several of the Eleven Labs voices and they're great. This leads me to my question. Would the trick described recently in another thread on here work for making this app more accessible? I'm referring to the long-press on an inaccessible button or other element. In any case, I'm most definitely going to grab myself a copy of this app at some point.
Who knows then Gokul
Looks like other people are finding it. I can't even remember where my phone thinks it is, I've been playing with the VPN to see what adds are like around the world! Dog food in spanish was getting old!
Wow!
I don’t often say this but Wow. I enjoy writing short stories every once in a while and I plugged in one of my stories and had the different voices reading them and I’m totally amazed. I kept thinking “I wrote this?” It is like having your own audiobook reader reading the story. If you are having problems importing a file from the File app, you can copy the text, go into the Reader app, hit Import button then the Write Text button then paste your text. The Reader app saves it after that and you don’t have to copy and paste again. You can then switch to other voices. On the More button I see an option to Share but that is dimmed out. I hope I will eventually be able to share with family and friends with my story being read by one of the voices. If anybody knows why this is dimmed out and if you figure it out would appreciate an explanation.
Regards
Danny
Answering and Thoughts
Hey Alexandra,
Unfortunately, I can’t definitively answer your question about Kindle book support. My guess is that it doesn’t support Kindle books due to copyright protections and encryption. However, it does support Text, PDF, and eBook formats. I’m not sure if it will ever support the encrypted formats from Amazon.
Ekaj, let’s hope they consider making this more accessible for us. We should reach out to the developers and request this feature. The more of us who ask, the more likely they are to improve the app for VoiceOver users.
Danny, thanks for sharing how this has brought your short stories to life with the new voices. That’s exciting, and I’m thrilled to hear you enjoy hearing your stories in a new way. It must be a great feeling.
I’m curious, which voices have you all come to love and use the most?
I tried it.
The voices are nice. I deleted my account though as I wouldn't use this app.
I really really don't like that once you delete an account with this company; your email is still kept on their survers, or at least something is that makes it so you can't use your email again to sign up to them.
Oh well, I can't see myself using their website anymore anyway apart from through an API.
Coming Soon
I tryed to download the app in this afternoon, but it'll be available on TĂĽrkiye's App store on july 11. I have somethings to try with this app, I'm really curious about this.
It says 'Expected on 11 June…
It says 'Expected on 11 June" here on Turkey's App Store.
As for the voices, I was impressed by the lifelike quality I experienced when experimenting with them on their website. For example, Nicole's voice would be well-suited for reading content intended for relaxation and meditation, or any material that's suitable for being delivered with a soft and soothing tone.
A couple of points
I haven't downloaded it but listened to the podcast. a couple of questions:
1. are all the voices North american dialects? nothing against North american dialects of course - great if I'm reading John Grisham - but I'd like an English accent for my PG Wodehouse.
2. Is it really true that if you enter back into a book having read, say, 25 percent, that 25 percent is gone for evermore in that you can't rewind back to the beginning? thomas speculates that this is intentional. If so, why? Has the developer never fallen asleep listening to a story before? I'm sorry, but good though the voices might be, this is an absolute deal-breaker from a Bingo perspective. I don't want an app deciding for me that something is insufficiently interesting to reread.
And one last thing - it supports text files - this has been said several times now. Does that mean it does not support RTF, MS Word, etc. or do such things come under the text files umbrella, or umberella if you prefer?
Larry Olivier was just addded
His family took the cash, it wasn't stolen. Some other famous voices to. And there are lots of different accents, lots of English, don't remember if there are Scottish and Welsh, there are so many.
Sir Lawrence
Dear Arthur, Dear, sweet Arthur, we are delighted to bestow upon you this apple corer, as a token of the esteem in which we hold you in. That would be rahter fun! Count arthur strong himself would also be good.
Characters and format
I downloaded the app today. Firstly, does this app use your character you have into your elevenlabs account or are the characters unlimited when using the app? Secondly, I tried importing an epub file, either from Google Drive and then downloaded locally on my iPhone, but it said error making read document. We've been notified and are investing the issue.
Also I think that the app uses only monolingual voices, and it does not support the latest multilingual text-to-speech: when importing a wikipedia article in Italian, the app read it with an English accent.
Pauses in inappropriate places
I imported the short story Cookie Jar by Stephen King and it read the words, but it put pauses where they didn't belong. I tried this with several voices -- some were better than others, but all exhibited this problem. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
Sharing does not seem to be available yet
Would be nice if one could share the audio produced from this app and use the audio to read in another app that has more extensive and sophisticated navigation and bookmarking capabilities. Without those extra capabilities I would get very frustrated reading anything longer than a minute or two in duration.
--Pete
Sir Lawrence refuses to swear
No, I do not mean that Sir Lawrence Olivier refuses to take an oath or affirm. I have no evidence either way on that point. what I mnean is Sir Lawrence Olivier refuses to utter expletives. Instead, he makes a sound kind of similar to clearing his throat in a rather embarrassed way. Bloody he will do, Sodding is fine, but get to the harder stuff and he's having none of it. Don't ask him to talk about ahem freezing over, for example. That is rather silly, isn't it? Rules him out of reading many books. I don't know if it's the same with any other of the voices.
I agree sharing audio would be nice if this app is not to have anything other than the most primitive navigation capabilities I have ever seen. It's a shame about that aspect, as in so many ways this app is very good and i can see its being a pleasant reading experience to use.
I used it again and it seemed bad!
Same voice as I've used before. Now it seems rubbish! Stuttering and stopping. I was very surprised - previously this had been an amazing experience.
I'll try again with another document, but seriously?