Reader by ElevenLabs 4+

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.

Huge accessibility win

As a legally blind user this is a dream come true. Elevenlabs has by far the most natural sounding computer voices and to be able to paste in any text and have it read by my favorite voices is beyond compare. I interpret the phrase “any length of text” and “import epubs” as “be able to read books you couldn’t before.”
I’m still half in disbelief that this is some sort of bug and my usage limit will update in a few more hours but right now it seems like elevenlabs are going in on the side of valuing accessibility and I am in the target audience for that so I really really appreciate it ❤️