With ElevenReader, you can bring any book, news article, newsletter, blog, PDF or text to life with ultra realistic AI voice narration. Available across 32+ languages and in the voice of some of the world’s most legendary personalities from television, film and literature, ElevenReader allows you to elevate your listening experience via the highest quality text to audio AI.
What is ElevenReader?
ElevenReader is an AI driven text to speech app that acts as an ideal audio companion during your commute, while exercising, at work or while at school. Powered by ElevenLabs’ very own contextually aware Text to Speech (TTS) model, ElevenReader puts the highest-quality AI voice technology in your pocket.
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Why ElevenReader?
- Bring your favorite news sources, newsletters, PDFs, ePubs, texts and even camera scans to life
- Get unlimited text to speech audio streaming
- Listen to literary classics narrated by a choice of modern, dynamic voices using ultra realistic AI.
- Support indie authors by streaming work from up-and-coming writers.
- Turn articles, texts and documents into personalised podcasts
- Hear audio versions of the Bible, Quran and other famous works of meditation and poetry
- Follow along as words are highlighted in sync with audio at speeds between 0.25X to 3X
- Create bookmarks, share clips, add notes and sleep timers
- Choose from 32+ different languages for a truly global experience
AUDIOBOOKS
ElevenLabs is synonymous with quality, and that’s why we’re bringing together industry icons to make your reading journey even more enjoyable. Explore the latest titles of our expansive collection of indie and literary classic audiobooks, then listen in a voice of your choice. From Burt Reynolds, Sir Laurence Olivier, Judy Garland, Jerry Garcia and James Dean to Dr. Maya Angelou, Deepak Chopra and Dr. Richard Feynman, experience legendary voices from television, film, literature and beyond and start enjoying the unforgettable magic of iconic voices with AI narration.
LISTEN TO NEWSLETTERS, ARTICLES & BLOGS
Immerse yourself in must-listen, curated content from leading sources like Arianna Huffington, Maya Angelou, Goal, Entrepreneur, Tubefilter, China Talk, Big Technology, AI Supremacy, Science Explained, MIT Technology Review and Air Mail.
ABOUT ELEVENLABS
ElevenLabs is an AI Audio research & deployment company. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language or voice. We develop the most realistic, versatile and contextually aware AI audio models.
For access to create your own AI voice clone or generate AI audio files and even more features, visit our web platform at https://elevenlabs.io/
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- Free with in-app purchase
Accessibility and User Comments:
The app is mostly accessible. Tabs and UI elements are easy to reach and navigate. All the buttons on the player and main pages are properly labeled. As for accessibility actions, the app includes only one: previewing voices in the Voices tab.
The main tabs are located at the bottom and include: Home, Explore, the Import button, Library, and Voices.
The app offers free users 2 hours of listening each week and provides options to purchase additional hours or subscribe to one of the available plans.
One accessibility issue occurs when logging in with an ElevenLabs account—TalkBack is unable to read the text entered in the email and password fields. It is also possible to sign in with Google, which avoids this issue. Another issue is that the edit box used to paste a link is not recognized as an edit box by screen readers. However, it is possible to share links directly to the app without using the Import section.
The app includes a wide selection of AI voices with various characters. A few are available by default, while others can be added through the Voices tab. Once saved, these voices can be selected in the player when listening to content.
The actual text is not exposed to the screen reader, so it cannot be navigated. It is only possible to listen to the text through the app’s player.
Overall, the app provides an accessible experience and delivers a variety of high-quality AI voices supporting a good range of languages, despite reading hiccups that occur occasionally and subscription plans that are on the expensive side.
Last Tested App version and Android version:
App version: 1.4.42, Android 15
I concur with the reviewer’s observations. I tried it tout with a couple of PDFs that were invoices of a couple different types. As you might imagine with an invoice the content was highly tabular. The Reader valiantly tried to make sense of it all. I was rather surprised with some of the vocalizations, but overall I was able to glean the content of the documents. I’ll use the Reader for that alone. It parsed the documents to the same degree, with slightly different results, to the EnvisionAI handling of the same documents. I was disappointed to find that the reader did not show up as a share candidate for PDF documents in the “My Files” app after installing the Reader.