Reader by ElevenLabs

I’ve been using the app for a few weeks now and thought to share some thoughts on what could be improved! I use it for most research articles that I need to read but due to my neurodivergent disorder, I would prefer to listen to! I normally upload the pdf or share the link from the journal the paper is being published! It would’ve been great if it could allow to edit the text after it decides to read cause sometimes it just read so much unnecessary stuff! It also can’t realise those references numbers in the text so it keeps reading those which is distracting! It also needs to understand footnotes concepts so instead of reading the number, it reads the footnotes and comes back to the text!

I’ve been looking for an app like this for years, and finally it’s here! This is utterly amazing! The voices sound so great :) thank you so much to the devs. I hope you’re planning to update the app and make improvements as I want to use this app forever :)

Being dyslexic, reading books is a challenge, but audiobooks are a great way for me to access books without the issue of getting halfway down a page and having to go back and reread what I’ve read because it simply hasn’t gone in. So for me, audiobooks are like an accessibility tool because I still like to have the physical book with me as I read along with the narrator. The problem with this is that Audiobooks are sooo expensive on top of buying the physical book too! This app is a game changer because I can import my book files and have the app read back to me in a realistic voice which sounds just like an audiobook, without having to wait for a month for a new credit from Audible or fork out another £15 for the audiobook on Apple Books, if the book I want to read even has an audiobook in the first place! IMO, ElevenLabs has the best library of Ai voices right now, and whilst the library on this app isn’t as big as the ElevenLabs site, there are still a ton of voices to choose from (including some celebrities) so you can get the right voice for the type of book you’re reading. I haven’t found a voice yet that doesn’t sound like it’s a real person reading back to me. Not only does the voice read it back, but it’s also immersive and actually changes its tone in conjunction to what the text says. For example, if a character is yelling, the voice will often raise its voice. Not all the time, but it’s extremely impressive when it does! Thank you ElevenLabs for creating such a fantastic app, I’m now reading more books than ever!! 👏

As a totally blind user who uses VoiceOver, I absolutely love this app! I can't read things with jaws or VoiceOver anymore… They just don't sound the same! I write fanfic and I use this app to read my stories to make sure there as I want them and it is so much easier to find mistakes! Best discovery in a long time! Thank you for this! It would be cool to have some paid features though, and I would buy them! Totally accessible too, fabulous job! Just to clarify, paid features, I think would be cool would be the ability to download the audio off-line, and also, access to more voices. It would be seriously cool if we could access the voices on the website. I would pay to do that! Also the ability to read Kindle books.

OMG I Love this app! The only issue I have is that you can’t search the ebook, there is no search bar, which would allow me to quickly jump to the part I want it to read from. Other than that it’s amazing. I’ve been looking through the App Store for a realistic Ai reader that would read my already purchased books & Fanfic to me, but all of them are waaay too expensive for me to justify purchasing. I’m sooo thankful to the developers of this one, I can listen to my fav fanfic from a realistic voice! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Often find the app stops speaking - especially for long reads.

I am an avid book reader, and my favourite thing to do is read myself to sleep. However I have moved recently into enjoying audiobooks more so these days, but don’t want to re-purchase the audiobook versions of all of the books I already have in my extensive library, and that’s when I stumbled onto ElevenReader through some raving reviews and suggestions on Reddit. I have used a bunch of different readers in the past but they all had their own issues, some were sorely overpriced, some had terrible selections of voices, and some had difficult to navigate interfaces which I didn’t always appreciate. And the main thing for me being absolutely none of them provided sleep timers which was an essential feature for me as like I mentioned, I love to fall asleep reading or listening to books but I don’t necessarily want it playing all night. This application absolutely ticks all my boxes. Not only does it have a sleep timer but it has an incredible range of voices which I cycle through depending on the books that I’m reading. An extremely intuitive and modern interface, and a wealth of great features. I can’t believe it took me so long to find this application, a big thank you to the developers and you certainly have a fan in me!

I’ve been a long-term, top 1% Pocket user and discovered their recent iOS version no longer provided their higher-quality “online” voice. I searched for better, free alternatives and stumbled onto ElevenReader. I am very impressed with the voice quality and selection. Pocket is still the better app for save-for-later reading without voice (admittedly its core competency), but I plan to use ElevenReader for listening to articles and long reads going forward.

Learning by listening is a joy to be hold,We thank those that provide the written word. And we thank those who enhance our life with a spoken word.

Nicely designed app, with great reading capabilities. However, it’s lacking any bookmarking functions for shared articles.