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A voice with real rhythm and phrasing — not the flat one your phone reads notifications in. Docuspeak turns PDFs, EPUBs and anything you paste into speech, entirely on your device. Start a paper on the walk to work, finish a chapter while you cook.
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
How it works
Import a PDF or EPUB, share one to Docuspeak from any app, or paste text straight from the clipboard. Everything after that happens on the phone in your pocket.
Most read-aloud tools hand you the same clipped voice your phone uses to announce notifications — fine for a sentence, exhausting for a chapter. Docuspeak uses a neural speech model with real rhythm and intonation. Voices this good normally run on someone's servers, with your documents sent up to them; this one runs on your iPhone.
Academic PDFs are full of things you never want spoken: running headers, page numbers, citation clutter, reference lists. Docuspeak types every block as it imports and leaves the furniture out — and keeps a log of what it skipped, so you can read any of it back.
Follow along on screen, or lock the phone and listen like a podcast. Playback carries on with the screen off, with lock-screen controls, a sleep timer, and speeds from slow to brisk.
Nineteen distinct voices, not one voice pitch-shifted: American and British English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Hindi, including an Indian-accented English. Preview any of them before choosing, and change your mind mid-chapter. All built in, all working in airplane mode.
Close the app mid-paragraph, come back tomorrow, and the document is waiting on the same sentence. Your library keeps its place across every document you're part-way through.
Privacy
This isn't a policy choice we could quietly reverse — it's how the app is built. The voice is a neural model that ships inside the app and runs on the phone's own silicon.
Read the full privacy policy.
Early access
Docuspeak is being finished with a small group of readers working through real papers and real books. If you'd like it early, or you have a document that reads badly and want it fixed, get in touch — every document sent in becomes a test case.