Looking for a text-to-speech reader that can add personality and pizzazz to your voice? ElevenLabs is expanding its reader app globally and now supports 32 different languages.
The app can read you anything from PDFs to articles to novels using hundreds of different voices, including those of celebrities such as Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Sir Laurence Olivier.
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When it launched in June, Reader was initially limited to the US, UK and Canada, but with the latest expansion, the app is now available in several other countries and supports Portuguese, Spanish, French, Hindi, German, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Italian, Tamil and Swedish, TechCrunch reports.
The latest version of the app is powered by ElevenLab’s new Turbo 2.5 model, which promises higher quality and lower latency conversational AI. Thanks to the new model, English text-to-speech translation is now 25% faster. Hindi, French, Spanish, Mandarin, and 27 other languages are three times faster, and support for Vietnamese, Hungarian, and Norwegian has been added.
Reader was previously only available as an iOS app, but the company recently released a version for Android users. The app is free for the first three months, after which there is a Various plans are availablefrom a free version with 10,000 credits per month to a Pro version for $99 per month with 500,000 credits per month.
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To try Reader, download and install the app for iOS or Android. When you first launch the app, you’ll be asked to create an account. You’ll then be asked how you want to use the app and which voice you prefer as your default.
The home screen displays a few books for your listening pleasure, including Cinderella, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Tap any title to start listening. You can pause, resume, change the speed, skip forward or backward. You can also change the speaking voice.
From the home screen, you can add your own content to be read aloud. Tap the plus icon and select the option you want – write text, import URL for a web page, upload file, or scan file.
To view all available voices, tap the voices icon at the bottom of the screen. Here you can sort celebrity voices as well as the other conversation voices that come with the app. Tap a voice to learn more about it. You can save a voice as a favorite by tapping the plus icon.
ElevenLabs also offers a website where you can copy and paste text to be read aloud, access all the voices, and even create sound effects like a car rushing by, a lion roaring, or a choir of angels.
