On the lookout for a text-to-speech reader that may add some character and pizzazz to its voice? ElevenLabs is increasing its Reader app the world over with assist for 32 completely different languages.

Dealing with something from a PDF to an article to a novel, the app can learn aloud to you in tons of of various voices, together with such celebrities as Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds, and Sir Laurence Olivier.

Initially launched in June, Reader had been restricted to the US, the UK, and Canada. However with the most recent growth, the app is now obtainable in a number of different international locations, with assist for Portuguese, Spanish, French, Hindi, German, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Italian, Tamil, and Swedish, as reported by TechCrunch.

The newest taste of the app is powered by ElevenLabs’ new Turbo 2.5 mannequin, which guarantees higher-quality and lower-latency conversational synthetic intelligence (AI). Because of the brand new mannequin, English text-to-speech is now 25% quicker. Hindi, French, Spanish, Mandarin, and 27 different languages are 3 times quicker, whereas assist has been added for Vietnamese, Hungarian, and Norwegian.

Reader has been obtainable solely as an iOS app, however the firm lately launched a model for Android customers. The app is free for the primary three months, after which a number of plans can be found, starting from a free model that comes with 10,000 credit per thirty days to a $99-per-month Professional model with 500,000 credit every month.

To offer Reader a whirl, obtain and set up the app for iOS or Android. The primary time you launch the app, you may be prompted to create an account. Then you definitely’ll be requested how you propose to make use of the app and which voice you like because the default.

The Residence display shows just a few books in your listening pleasure, together with Cinderella, The Story of Peter Rabbit, and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Faucet any title to start out listening. You’ll be able to pause, resume, change the velocity, skip forward, or return. You can even change the talking voice.

From the Residence display, you’ll be able to add your individual content material to be learn aloud. Faucet the plus icon and choose your most popular choice — writing textual content, importing the URL for an internet web page, importing a file, or scanning a file.

To take a look at all of the obtainable voices, faucet the Voices icon on the backside of the display. Right here, you’ll be able to kind by celeb voices in addition to the opposite conversational voices that include the app. Faucet a voice to study extra about it. It can save you a voice as a favourite by hitting the plus icon.

ElevenLabs additionally provides a web site the place you’ll be able to copy and paste textual content to be learn aloud, entry all of the voices, and even generate sound results akin to a automobile whizzing by, a lion roaring, and a choir of angels.