Reader by ElevenLabs 17+

By far the best I’ve used

I tried speechify. I love it but they have a word limit and as of today I have 18 days until my words renew. I’m so annoyed with it and I paid for it so I went searching for a high quality ai voice program to read my files. The voices are great, the program itself makes the file readable on the phone so you can follow along, change the speed, change the look (light mode, dark mode and contrast) and it’s very easy to use. Best part, right now it’s 100% free with no limits. As much as I love speechify, with the word limit and the hassle of waiting for someone in customer service to answer me to add more words (for the 3rd time in 24 hours) I’m going to unsubscribe as it’s a lot of wasted money for something that this app does just as well with just as amazing of voices.

Thank you so much for something that will allow me to read when I have a medical condition that won’t allow me to read on my own.

An amazing app if issues get fixed

As others have said, the app is excellent when it works doing exactly what you want it to with a nice interface. You can have any article or file read to you at the speed of your choice in an AI generated voice of your choice. Eleven labs AI readers sounds completely natural and high quality. If you leave off midway through and article you can simply return later and pick up where you left off while reading along if you like.

The problem is, it simply fails too often at present. I’ve used the app 7 times and it has not worked 3 of them. The text loads and the AI reader loads for the first 1-2 minutes then halts. Probably the server can’t handle the request, sometimes you get an error message sometimes you don’t but you’ll just have to try again in a few hours because it will not proceed.

If this issue gets fixed I would absolutely love the app and use it all the time. As is, I can’t use it because the convenience of having the article read to me as opposed to reading it is outweighed by the inconvenience of the unreliability that it will work. I’ve stopped using for now but will try again in a few months to see if the issue is handled.

Developer Response ,

Hey - thank you for the feedback. The playback problem should be now resolved.

Best Reader, only one “complaint”

This is by far the best pdf/article to text reader I’ve used. Including over speechify. It has very nice flow, I only wish it would not censor some words that have no issue in context.

Example: “naked scarped cliffs” in Candide by Voltaire — censoring naked. And sometimes it cuts off before the end of a paragraph and makes unnatural pauses which can be a little jarring.

A feature? Recommendation: allowing the user to specify things to skip over when reading. I read a lot of physics and chemistry books, and sometimes under figures they have an equation like v -> u+e++ or something to that effect. If I could specify the things to ignore and have it apply to the rest of the book that would be immaculate.

In any case, my one “complaint” is that there aren’t more professional voices. I have been listening to everything in Sir Olivers voice, I love the transatlantic accent and the old fuzzy microphone. More voices that are as clear and sharp as the celebrity/radio icons and I’d be willing to pay for them if I’m being honest, so long as the quality is maintained.

Great work! I will happily subscribe if it sticks to this kind of ease of use and quality. The blog reader is astounding too, I thought it was going to be a mess for sure.

If you’re on the fence, just try this app!