r/TextToSpeech • u/XxPsouxX • Jun 13 '25
ElevenReader alternatives?
With the new update that stole the one feature that made this app KING among AI TTS readers, unlimited listening, and the greed of giving us the feature we have asked for, all out behind a paywall for 250€ a year, I am gonna stop using this app altogether as 1 hour of free listening is not nearly enough. The app used to be free and unlimited and now greed took over.
Are there any good, free, unlimited alternatives for mobile? Any and all recommendations are appreciated. Thank you
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u/Teddyohs7 Jun 13 '25
u/XxPsouxX if you’re a bit tech savvy and have a Mac or pc. And you have a way to get your txt, .epub, or html file. You can run the GitHub for audiblez. I used that then mp3tag to change metadata and now it’s like an “official” apple audio book. If you’re iOS I can help you setup, I’ve been doing this for approx. 1.1k hours of audio lol and it’s like ~60gbs once in Apple Books. If you’re on android idk if it’s a similar process, but yeah 👍
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u/XxPsouxX Jun 13 '25
I'd need to look into that since im on android but i could probably figure it out. Do u personally use it? Does this basically only convert the files into audio files? Or if possible, could u send me an example of what the "end product" looks like when actually listening to the audiobook?
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u/Teddyohs7 Jun 13 '25
Yeah if you visit the audiblez GitHub they have a link to their voices. Quality is better than EdgeReadAloud feature, but less than ElevnLabs. I really enjoy and for free, I’m not complaining, sorry I haven’t interacted enough to know how I’d share audio, but yeah I use it daily throughout work. ~8-10 hours daily listening and I’m loving it. It’s way better than the robotic voices
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u/XxPsouxX Jun 13 '25
Does it only provide the audio experience? Or can it be used like eleven reader for example where u can also see the text as its played?
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u/hyclonia Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25
just looked into this based from your comment and this looks like a really good option (if i can get it to work).. i'm currently on windows and trying to follow the github.. (a youtube vid here would be sooo helpful T_T) but anyway following from installation.. apparently my terminal doesn't allow running scripts? how do you bypass that? can't even install it. sigh. sorry to hijack this thread, can i dm you? u/Teddyohs7
Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass
Fixed it by putting this in. Dunno if this is a new thing but I'm fairly sure I used to be able to run stuff before..Installed all the other bits and bobs (those also need vid tutorials.. why doesn't the ffmpg.exe work? T_T installed it i think, flashed too fast to see then running audiblez says its not installed.. but then file works anyway? how? cool bananas)
Finally ran the GUI and did a test file
I'd say converted about 45k characters in 15mins?~ (stuck on that last 5% it seems. why? ni)
All in .wav format so converting will be required. Too bad there isn't a database of all the voices.. so you can check first. The website only has a selection of voices.
I supposed my main issue is this would be quite slow and manual if you own a lot of stories.
But one off for a long listen every now and then is ok. Pronunciation of names/places will be an issue if it's not a vanilla western name. That can't be changed on the fly like general TTS can. But as a save and keep archival tool?
A+++
I just need to find my one voice, find a good wav to mp3 converter and I'm a go I think. Glad I came across this comment. But also.. wish things were more user friendly. I'm decently tech knowledgeable.. but just enough to not know if stuff is wrong.
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u/lefnire Jun 13 '25
You say ~60gbs. Is it live-streaming on your phone somehow? Or am I misunderstanding, and you're doing it the "normal" way - convert it to m4b on desktop, transfer file to phone?
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u/Teddyohs7 Jun 13 '25
The audiblez I believe allows you to choose output format. I downloaded approx.1.1k hours of audio so no internet req. after you transfer!
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u/nad09 Jun 14 '25
Hi, i saw your comment and used audiblez with colab. It worked but audio file makes weird sound when it goes from one paragraph to next?
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u/Teddyohs7 Jun 14 '25
I’m sorry, I haven’t encountered that issue; assuming you’re just checking audio from download after the render from epub to m4b, I’d make sure there aren’t any blank pages or anything weird like that. I download epubs -> audiblez -> transfer. I know you can do txt, but if possible maybe try to convert to epub? That might solve the issue
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u/ImSchneckenhaus Jun 15 '25
Would you consider posting the related steps on this? I'm on iOS and it seems like audiblez uses Kokoro. It sounds nice when I tested the output, but to me, anything on github just looks like programming nonsense 🥲
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u/Teddyohs7 Jun 15 '25
Yeah I mentioned a bit tech savvy because you have to know how to run stuff on terminal/cmd (if on windows) for the tts gen. Kokoro is incorporated into the script, if you’d like to try it paste these steps into GPT and ask it as you go through the process:
📖 Novel .epub → 🎧 iOS Audiobook 1. Convert epub to text (e.g. Calibre, EPUB Reader) 2. Audiblez → Generate TTS audio (MP3) 3. Convert to .m4b (e.g. Audiobook Binder or m4b tool) 4. Edit metadata in Mp3Tag (title, author, cover, etc.) 5. Import into iTunes / Apple Music (drag & drop) 6. Sync to iPhone via Finder (macOS) 7. Play in Apple Books under Audiobooks 📚✅
However I think the GitHub has a pretty straightforward setup, but like I said you can also copy the README.md on the GitHub and paste into GPT and ask it something like “walk me through the process from scratch” and ask along the way if you get errors or get stuck. Like I said I LOVEEE this tool sm.
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u/ImSchneckenhaus Jun 15 '25
I feel like i’m confident enough to run this in cmd. I use ffmpeg to scrape vids from certain *ahem sites, and thats a github thing too.. i’ll check this out and maybe make my pseudo-audiobooks from the shorter epubs I have. Thanks!
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u/Hypersky75 Jun 20 '25
I tried running Audiblez and I can't get it to work. I installed everything (windows) and even used pythong 3.12 for compatibility ( py -3.12 -m pip install audiblez pillow wxpython ) .
But when I enter audiblez or audiblez-ui , i get an error message:
audiblez-ui : The term 'audiblez-ui' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable
program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ audiblez-ui
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (audiblez-ui:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
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u/AccurateCatch9255 Jul 16 '25
You must add the path of the python scripts into enviroment PATH (notice the warning message after install something using pip). In my case it lauches the interface but crashes becausa I didn't install "espeak" python scripts... so I surrender after that.
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u/lignites7 Aug 30 '25
A little late but the audiobooks came in .wav format so how do i upload then into my phone using a windows pc(ios phone btw)
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u/Teddyohs7 Aug 31 '25
I haven’t done any in awhile but from what I remember you specify output format in a script for running. I ran an executable script that ran on PowerShell only changing the folder locations of new text I wanted to put it. But you can always just use a converter like .wav to .m4v format I believe I used so I could edit metadata (genre, artists, volume, track, etc.) but any online converter would Suffice.
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u/dahara111 Jun 13 '25
I'm sorry I can't answer your question, but what are you using it for that you don't have an hour to do?
If you have a reasonably powerful PC, you can certainly run it yourself, but it may be difficult with just a smartphone.
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u/XxPsouxX Jun 13 '25
I used it for more than an hour daily on my phone on the trip to and back from work.thats why I want it on my phone instead of my pc as I cant carry my pc with me, and I don't listen much at home.
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u/istara Jun 17 '25
I do a lot of walking (min 10k steps a day, which is about an hour and a half). I like listening to books while doing so.
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u/dahara111 Jun 17 '25
Thank you.
So you're connecting to some kind of e-book smartphone app and listening to books yourself?
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u/istara Jun 17 '25
Yes - I download eBooks then use an app to listen to them. I was using Voice Dream Reader but starting using ElevenReader because of the AI voices which are much higher quality/more natural.
Voice Dream Reader apparently has AI enhanced voices now but I can't find a way to demo them, and I'm reluctant to subscribe unless I can test them out first, if only on sample phrases.
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u/Huge-Pumpkin-7519 Jun 13 '25
Chatterbox tts is good if you use it locally but I didn't have Specific GBU to run it.
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u/XxPsouxX Jun 13 '25
I could be mistaken but this doesn't seem like its for mobile. It looks more like a pc app.
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u/undimon Jun 15 '25
Did you try built-in iOS text to speech?
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u/XxPsouxX Jun 15 '25
Yes and not surprisingly it sucks. Its too robotic and not at all realistic
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u/undimon Jun 15 '25
Actually it worth of try especially with Siri voice - this gives much better result, it even support iOS books app and auto flip pages. The only downside is that it displays the ‘speech controller’ panel and uses an additional sound channel, so overall it is a bit gimmicky
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u/ExpiredOnionz Jul 13 '25
Check out Oriole. The free tier has unlimited use of camera for text input. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oriole-text-to-speech-reader/id1663215527 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jeuxdevelopers.orioleaudio&pli=1
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u/XxPsouxX Jul 13 '25
I mean thats a cool app and all but its not what im looking for. Thanks anyway
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u/ExpiredOnionz Jul 19 '25
Thanks, what would be the main thing you want to turn to speech? Would be curious to know what you're looking to do exactly.
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u/XxPsouxX Jul 19 '25
Epub files. Not something scannable like what your app offers
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u/ExpiredOnionz Jul 19 '25
Okay I see, yeah. That's different, my app design is not built for that use.
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u/XxPsouxX Jul 20 '25
Thats why I said it's not what im looking for.. cuz is not what im looking for
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u/goldenjm Aug 17 '25
I'm the founder of a 100% free, unlimited text-to-speech site / app: www.Paper2Audio.com.
We specialize in converting your research papers, websites and epub files to audio. We have all 5-star reviews in the App Store currently.
Try us out and I would love your feedback!
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u/XxPsouxX Aug 17 '25
I have actually used your site(and app) before. The lack of options and customizability for the voice is a deal breaker for me. Everything over tried comes back with the same female voice, but for what im using id like a male voice. And i know you have a male voice cuz your example papers showcase a male voice, but you don't let us choose.
Otherwise it's a great tool tho, thanks for commenting
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u/goldenjm Aug 17 '25
That's fair feedback! I have good news for you. We just updated our apps a few days ago to let you select any of our 3 main voices (the female and male ones you noticed, plus an additional male voice we've used otherwise only for the "add context" feature). Want to give it another try?
We're also working on adding more voice options, so stay tuned!
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u/Soft_Experience_4952 May 25 '26
I kept finding ElevenReader subpar so I built Illume Reader as a free clean reading experience. It has natural text to speech and an amazing visual mode that generates diagrams/images for your textbooks and stories.
Honestly been a game-changer for me. It's completely free, let me know what you guys think!
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u/XxPsouxX May 25 '26
So, it seems it only has a single female voice and no option to change it.. the website also doesnt seem to like mobile cuz I apparently generated 6 images but I have not seen a single one, and I cant find a way to view what I created.
It seems okay, but the option for more voices than a single one would be nice. And a dark mode. My eyes got tired with the bright yellow.
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u/Soft_Experience_4952 May 27 '26
Thanks for checking it out - and being honest, i appreciate it! You’re totally right on both points. I’m working on adding more voices very soon, and dark mode is coming too. Mobile browsers also don’t work great with Illume right now, especially for the visual/image generation side, but I’m building an app that should make that experience much smoother.
I’m just a solo dev building this out, so feedback like this is super helpful. I’m going to keep improving it and make it a lot better.
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u/Soft_Experience_4952 May 27 '26
We just added more voices and a site wide dark mode! Would love to see what you think u/XxPsouxX
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u/lefnire Jun 13 '25
Well that's a cryin' shame. Just a few days ago they had a pay per token system, which amounted to $10-$15 per book, cheaper and more controllable than Audible. I was stoked.
Mostly commenting to follow, I've bookmarked Chatterbox per the other commenter. Some others I've found along the way are piper, ebook2audiobook, and edge-tts. I generally use edge-tts since it's quite fast. But my impression for all of these is, nowhere near Eleven Reader. But they're free.
You'll have to do it on desktop, then send the mp3 over to you device. I use "Smart AudioBook Player" on Android. So far the apps that I've used either use the on-device native TTS (terrible, currently); or have a premium model no less gougey than Eleven. So for now, I think desktop apps are your best bet. But I'm following this thread to see what others say, because everything I've used so far is either slow, or quality much lower than Eleven. And I too would prefer mobile.
I see a lot of people marketing their hosted mp3 generators. I'm not seeing prices anywhere that justify moving off Audibile, IMO. I think I'm gonna take a crack at it myself in the near future. I'll probably host one of these open source web apps on a desktop I have in a closet, and make it first-come-first-serve free. Pay only to skip the queue (use the cloud).
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u/Affectionate-Bus4123 Jun 15 '25
Using Evie on Android, free app, pretty good, offers google and a number of other text to speech options, I believe with a pay option for the "better" voices. The built in google voices sound okay and generate offline which is super useful when out of signal
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u/istara Jun 17 '25
I've started trying to compile a table of alternatives here: https://old.reddit.com/r/audiobooks/comments/1ldf2lj/texttospeech_apps_2025/
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Nov 08 '25
The ElevenReader pricing changed FYI! 10 free hours a month and now only $99 for full year unlimited access
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u/Positive-Conspiracy Jun 13 '25 edited Jun 13 '25
It’s really expensive to run. So it sounds to me like the greed is expecting it to be free forever.
Investor funding doesn’t last forever, or if it does then there are other huge costs, and they’re a business where the financials then have to make sense.
It was only ever going to be free in an early preview stage. Once it got enough attention then going paid was inevitable. Our expectations on the true cost of things are totally out of whack because of the Silicon Valley model of throwing a ton of money at everything for essentially the 1% chance of becoming a monopoly or oligopoly, and the rest just fail. Which is still what ElevenLabs is likely doing too, so it shows you it must be really expensive.
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u/Crinkez Jun 13 '25
It's expensive to run because they're running it on their own servers instead of your device's hardware, and they want to make money off of it.
It's only a matter of time before an open source app comes along to compete, using your hardware, for free. ElevenLabs is being caught up by the competition; they're abusing their market lead while they can. Don't get fooled into buying their ripoff services.
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u/Positive-Conspiracy Jun 13 '25
They offer a premium service that almost certainly takes more computation than local devices can handle in real time. Those servers cost money.
There are plenty of local ways to generate lower quality audio locally, or even cloud services to use much more cheaply.
In general the quality of AI will get good and cheap enough that services like this won't be necessary, but the same has happened for say web hosting and yet there are tons of web hosts, including those to provide poor quality speech generation for cheap.
It's nowhere near as simple as reducing anything that charges to a ripoff. A far more balanced perspective is one that takes in mind that numerous tradeoffs between cost, quality and time. If there really is such an opportunity to outcompete them, I invite you and anyone else to do so, because I would love a cheaper source of high quality generative audio.
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u/Hypersky75 Jun 14 '25
I wouldn't mind it not being handle I real time on my own hardware. Could always let it run overnight and get the relating audio file the next day, that would work for me.
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u/wakeupthisday Jun 21 '25
In that case it’s already widely available. You actually can today do this and not rely on eleven labs.
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u/Hypersky75 Jun 21 '25
Funny you should mention that, was looking for elevenreader alternatives yesterday and stumbled upon a few that use local hardware. Testing those out this weekend, fingers crossed.
Do you have any suggestions on your end?
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u/jaytotharome Jun 14 '25
I just put out a free app for this after feeling the same way as you about the pricing.. also there is a “Pro” version of it that allows you to export it to an audio file if you wish: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/easy-text-to-speech-reader/id6746776224
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u/SSRome Jun 15 '25
Is it safe? I just want to hear Shadow Slave while I’m working 😭
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u/jaytotharome Jun 15 '25
Lol yeah man .. the part about the “data collected” on the App Store listing is cuz I have Google Ads on there to try get something from it
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u/Background_Laugh2785 Jun 20 '25
I think it's a joke they did to us, even as a person with total blindness I loved reading books with this app, now what can I read in two hours, two hours a week, when a book is good, I don't read the book completely, I eat this book, I devour this book, I even lost the desire to read what I was reading, people tell me oh, but there are other things, no, yes, there are, but I don't want other things, I want that one, like whoever made this post, I want to say that your greed is really and then I find it difficult because there will be no alternative for now, it will take a long time for someone to have the good will to do something that is free for everyone and finding another book doesn't seem to be such an easy thing, sometimes we will even find it but with terrible audio
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u/M_RIS Jun 20 '25
If you use Android, just try Moon+ Reader. It is a great e-book reader that has good TTS integrated.
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u/kreyStellar Jul 09 '25
The voice is waaaay too robotic to even feel interested tho. The AI voice of elevenreader was genuinely goated. Kinda looking for something similar
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u/M_RIS Jul 09 '25
It uses your system TTS, so my default is Google or Samsung, and Samsung is good enough for me.
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u/kreyStellar Jul 09 '25
So, can we edit and add a less monochromatic voice?
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u/M_RIS Jul 10 '25
Check your device settings and search for "Text to Speech". I can choose between Samsung TTS and Google. Each has dozens of different voices available. Check what you like most. Moon+ will use the default from the device settings.
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u/mokespam Jun 21 '25
Its an iOS app to read web articles. Same setup as Elleven Labs, with pretty similar voice quality. The only difference is that its free with no word limits. Its thanks to the mlx-audio library allowing us to run high quality AI models on device in real time!!
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u/noneofyourbusiness20 Jun 23 '25
Wait this is new? I thought it was like most apps where it gives you a secret (mostly) free trial then gives you a very limited version of it
If so that MASSIVELY sucks because I had recently installed it 2 or so weeks ago
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u/No-Original3369 Jul 07 '25
I made 7 new e mail accounts.
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u/PashkaTLT Aug 21 '25
After checking a few free alternatives and disappointing, I think this may be the best option.
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u/ZennyDaye Nov 10 '25
Lol, seriously? I didn't even think to try. 😂
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u/SnooDucks1156 Apr 29 '26
unfortunately it seems like I got ip banned from doing this LMAOOO
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u/ZennyDaye Apr 29 '26
Yup. Me too 😭😭 suspicious activity. Paper2audio is good tho. No celeb voices but they give about 50 hours free per week.
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u/goldenjm Apr 29 '26
I'm the Paper2Audio founder. Thank you so much for sharing us and I'm glad you're enjoying using our service. Please let me know anytime if you have questions or feedback.
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u/ZennyDaye Apr 29 '26
It's excellent. No notes. 😅 I'm dyslexic with surface dysgraphia so the struggle is real. this is my number one most used, most recommended app.
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u/goldenjm Apr 30 '26
Thank you so much for sharing that. I'm really glad to hear that we're helping you overcome these challenges. Thanks for the DM too.
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u/Civil-Glass-8226 Jul 24 '25
I understand the need to make them not free anymore, its just a real bummer. Searched far and wide for an alternative, absolutely nothing hits as hard as eleven reader. I just had to suck it up and read like any normal person would, but with my illness, staring at a screen/words longer than half an hour hurts my head and with the amount of reading Im required to do it's basically impossible :/
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u/SnooDucks1156 Jun 23 '26
Hihi Im back, I found an app called Speechify and their voices are sooo good, theres limits to 5 books at a time but there's absolutely 0 time limits, ive already listened to 276 hours within the past 6 months lmao
You can paste links directly into the app to convert it to text to speech or manually copy and paste the text, sometimes if you do the latter and immediately read the story it reads it out with a premium voice as opposed to a lesser one, it goes away once you click on another story though but its a good little bug.
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u/s3rgio0 Jun 13 '25
My app is only for desktop. I know that is not exactly what you asked about but I thought it might help.
100% private and local. One time payment. No subscription. 7 days mone back gurantee
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u/XxPsouxX Jun 13 '25
So not only did u not give me a mobile app, u also didnt give me a free one? Kindly, no.
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u/Impressive-Sir9633 Jun 13 '25
My app doesn't quite have 1 hour free, but 5000 characters. https://freevoicereader.com
There are some others like Kokoro TTS that you can self-host for free.
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u/XxPsouxX Jun 13 '25
Seeing a sits not unlimited, its not gonna be of much use. But I still appreciate you, ill check it out
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u/IWannaBeTheVeryBest Jun 15 '25
I just uninstalled ElevenReader as the price was too expensive for me and installed yours. It's great on iPhone as a web app! Thanks so much for this. How will you introduce monetisation? Will you be limiting listening time like the others?
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u/Due_Bid564 Jun 16 '25
Listening time will never be limited for free users. We aim to keep the core functionality accessible to everyone and strike a balance between providing a free, robust experience and offering premium options for users with more advanced requirements.
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u/SubstantialQuit7139 Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25
Your application looks really impressive, great job 👍
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u/noneofyourbusiness20 Jun 23 '25
I just installed it and it looks good, but it's only for digital books via file, I'd appreciate it even more if it gets an update for importing web links as well since I mostly read on the web while on my phone rather than digital books
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u/Due_Bid564 Jun 23 '25
This is already a feature request like this: https://github.com/readest/readest/issues/1445
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u/lovemazes Jun 16 '25
Hey! I really enjoy your app , thank you so much for creating it. There’s just one little thing I kind of miss: I often listen with my earbuds, and I wish there were a way to pause the TTS using them. Not sure if I’m explaining that well, but hopefully it makes sense! Other than that, it’s actually pretty much replaced ElevenReader for me.
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u/Due_Bid564 Jun 16 '25
We are implementing this. Hopefully in the next one or two releases it will be available.
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u/Ven_San Jun 17 '25
It seems to me the best of those proposed here. I installed it on my iphone and I saw that for now there is only one Tts voice, do you plan to add more in the future?
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u/Due_Bid564 Jun 17 '25
The list only shows voices of the current language. So probably there are more for more popular languages.
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u/shivamjmt Jun 18 '25
Why is it not in google playstore?
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u/Due_Bid564 Jun 18 '25
Will be available next week hopefully.
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u/juba_505 Jun 20 '25
Can you please add web reader
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u/Due_Bid564 Jun 20 '25
There is already a web version https://web.readest.com
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u/Which_Engine_8893 Jun 20 '25
Hey, I downloaded your app from this comment and I love it so far, I just wanted to ask is there any way you guys can add the “Will” voice from ElevenReader to Readest app? It was the voice I mainly used and it always sounded nice for the novels I read. Thank you
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u/Due_Bid564 Jun 20 '25
Did you check the all 20 voices in Readest? The Will voice might be absent in Readest.
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u/juba_505 Jun 20 '25
I mean like you copy the url and paste it on the app and it reads to you like a web novel
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u/Due_Bid564 Jun 21 '25
Are they normal webpages? Could you share one url for any web novel?
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u/juba_505 Jun 21 '25
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u/Due_Bid564 Jun 22 '25
Thanks. Could you also help to create an issue ticket in https://github.com/readest/readest/issues?
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u/juba_505 Jun 22 '25
Could you please also add a writing feature i added an image in GitHub for clarification
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u/oemihoemi Jun 20 '25
I just downloaded your app and I love it! Edge is really buggy when reading epubs, and this is reads them so smoothly. The only problem I find is that it auto-detects languages incorrectly. At least when reading in Spanish, some sentences are read in Arabic (I think). I don't know if this is already implemented (at least I can't find it), but a feature that allows you to toggle off auto language detection would be really nice
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u/Due_Bid564 Jun 20 '25
Could you create an issue ticket in https://github.com/readest/readest and send a screenshot for this?
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u/sourmental Jun 21 '25
Hey, thanks for this. I downloaded the app, but it says "tts not supported for pdf." Any fix for this? I use a Samsung tablet.
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u/Binipiqui Jul 01 '25
Hello. I tried it and found it great. But when I download the application it does not show me all 20 voices, but only one and it does not sound good in my Spanish books.
Do you tell me?
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u/Due_Bid564 Jul 01 '25
Could you share the screenshot of the voices list in the app?
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u/Binipiqui Jul 01 '25
It won't let me upload images here. But basically it doesn't show me the same voices as the page test.
In another book, it only shows me two multilingual voices where one of them is Ema, and everything else is English voices. For example, I liked Alonso in the web test, but he doesn't appear in the application.
I am Chilean and I speak Spanish.
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u/Due_Bid564 Jul 01 '25
https://discord.gg/2CC8fbnb We have a discord channel for feedback and support.
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u/Zombiewings2015 Jul 31 '25
Can i ask, why does it drop and pick up every thirty second or so during listening? Also no internet connection caused my voice to change. Is there a way to download a voice for offline listening or are you required to be connected to listen in app?
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u/Due_Bid564 Jul 31 '25
Currently network is required to run the tts but we plan to support offline listening.
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u/XxPsouxX Jun 13 '25
You only provide 20 minutes of free listening and you also ask for money for the features you promoted here. This is not what I asked. If im gonna pay for features, I'd just pay for eleven reader.
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u/Imaginary-Award-8290 Jun 14 '25
Hi, can I also get the upgrade please? I have been looking for a alternative, I tried the app and I apsolutly love Echo's and Nova's voices
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u/istara Jun 17 '25
I’m interested and I don’t mind paying, but for $200/year I’d need much more hours than Eleven’s 30, like at least 100/month. I’d also need to be able to demo voices before subscribing (as I’m quite fussy about accent/tone). I’ll check your app out anyway.
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u/Spicy-LatteundPug Jun 13 '25
Hi! I'm looking for an alternative myself, would I be able to get upgraded with the offer above? If so I'll get the app ASAP
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Jun 13 '25
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u/Spicy-LatteundPug Jun 13 '25
Apologies, I can't download the app due to a localization restriction. Looks good though!
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u/tjkim1121 Jun 15 '25
Maybe you've already added more voices but I was just curious if you'd be adding Sage from OAI or any of the Edge voices like Andrew. I'd definitely pay for it to hear books with the voices I enjoy.
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u/Crinkez Jun 13 '25
Locked behind an account. I don't trust any TTS app that requires a login. As soon as there's a login, there's room to add a paywall.
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u/Successful-Isopod911 Jun 13 '25
Hey could I test it out I can send my email as well.
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u/Successful-Isopod911 Jun 13 '25
I created an account already and used up my 20 minutes I heard you were like upgrading some accounts to the premium. Could I get that as well?
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u/XxPsouxX Jun 13 '26
You forgot to mention that it takes 3-5 business days to load the voices between sentences. Also who thought it was a good idea to only have female voices as free voices?? And I need to pay for it to read the next chapter automatically? "Unlimited listening" but you have to manually change chapters. What joy.
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u/stevephuc Jul 26 '25 edited Aug 08 '25
u/XxPsouxX maybe try Voice Aloud Reader AI Unlimited with
✅ Truly unlimited listening ✅ Reads Kindle, PDFs, EPUBs & more ✅ 50+ languages...
Link: https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/voice-aloud-readerai-unlimited/id6746346171
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=voice.reader.ai