Listen to your first reading
Paste a piece of text. Press Listen. Follow along while it reads to you. This page is the short tour.
What you need
A current browser on a computer or phone — Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge in their last couple of major versions. Reading runs right there in the browser; nothing needs to be installed.
Paste your text
The home page is a single page. It says Paste or type anything. Drop in an article you copied from somewhere, a markdown file's contents, an email, or a whole novel. Plain text works. Markdown works.
Long pastes are welcome. The reader doesn't wait for the whole text to be ready before it starts — it begins speaking the first part while the rest is still being prepared.
Press Listen
The button below the text area says Listen. Press it. The first time, the page takes a moment to set itself up; the next reading starts faster.
While it gets ready, the page tells you what it's doing in plain words. When it's ready, the voice begins, and the current word is gently highlighted as it speaks.
Follow along and steer
While listening:
- Spacebar pauses and resumes.
- Left and right arrows skip back or forward by fifteen seconds.
- Click any word to jump there.
The reading area follows the spoken word so the current line stays near the top of your view. If you start scrolling on your own, the reader stops following and lets you read at your own pace until you ask it to follow again. Your hands win.
Pick a voice
The player has a voice picker. It plays a short sample of each voice when you tap it, so you can pick one by ear instead of by name. Switching applies to whatever the reader hasn't spoken yet.
What happens when you close the tab
A reading you started in your browser stays in your browser. It is there when you come back tomorrow, and it is there after a restart. It does not follow you to another device, and clearing your browser's data removes it. The library page shows which readings only live on this device, so you always know.
When something doesn't go right
The reader tells you in plain words when something goes wrong. A failed reading is never silent — the page says what happened and what you can do next.
If a reading stops in the middle and a reload doesn't fix it, the place to tell us is the bug tracker: github.com/aybabtme/telereader.ai/issues.
What this feels like when it works
You paste an article, press Listen, and shortly after, a voice is reading it to you while the words follow along. You close your laptop, finish the walk, and come back to a list of the readings you've started. That is the product.
Next
- Reader controls in detail
- Pick a voice
- Save readings across devices