Hi PH 👋
Today, we are making state-of-the-art text-to-speech free for (almost) everyone!
Until now, getting your browser to read to you made you choose: robotic voices, laggy playback, or a $29/month subscription. That pricing made sense when good TTS was expensive to run. It _isn't_ anymore.
Using ReadAloud is a magical experience. It's a pleasure to listen to, and it has already 5x'ed the number of articles I read weekly. We believe an accessibility feature such as ReadAloud should be free to use for most people to make the internet more accessible.
ReadAloud is free forever at speeds of up to 2x, works offline, and is fully private. We charge a simple subscription of $6/month for speeds up to 3.5x and improved models in the new updates.
Would love for you to try and share feedback!
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how does the free daily use work, is there a set number of minutes or articles before it caps out, and what happens after that, paywall or just ads?
@soneruludo45531 ReadAloud is completely free for most daily users. Our paid plan targets power-users who want to listen to articles at speeds higher than 2x.
Try it out! Let me know what you think
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How do you handle longer articles that go beyond typical TTS limits, do they get split or is there a queue system? Also curious if the free daily use has any time caps or just a generous word count.
@aydnjnbf, the playback starts right away regardless of how long an article is — split by sentences/paragraphs. No caps, free forever. Our paid plan targets power-users who want to listen to articles at speeds higher than 2x. Try it and let me know what you think!
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The voices sound way more natural than I expected for a free tool, almost like a real podcast host. Threw a long Reddit thread at it and it handled the formatting without sounding robotic.
@rorbay74131 thanks, Rahime. Glad it worked so well for you!
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Daily free limits are great for getting hooked, but adding a sleep timer and the ability to sync listening position across phone and laptop would make it a real daily companion for me.
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how does the free daily use work, is there a set number of minutes or articles before it caps out, and what happens after that, paywall or just ads?
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@soneruludo45531 ReadAloud is completely free for most daily users. Our paid plan targets power-users who want to listen to articles at speeds higher than 2x.
Try it out! Let me know what you think
How do you handle longer articles that go beyond typical TTS limits, do they get split or is there a queue system? Also curious if the free daily use has any time caps or just a generous word count.
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@aydnjnbf, the playback starts right away regardless of how long an article is — split by sentences/paragraphs.
No caps, free forever. Our paid plan targets power-users who want to listen to articles at speeds higher than 2x.
Try it and let me know what you think!
The voices sound way more natural than I expected for a free tool, almost like a real podcast host. Threw a long Reddit thread at it and it handled the formatting without sounding robotic.
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@rorbay74131 thanks, Rahime. Glad it worked so well for you!
Daily free limits are great for getting hooked, but adding a sleep timer and the ability to sync listening position across phone and laptop would make it a real daily companion for me.
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@suatdalarpwhs that's a great suggestion! We'll be working on it