The AI audio startup ElevenLabs has now made its text-to-speech Reader app available worldwide by adding support for 32 different languages – including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Mandarin and Hindi.
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The app, which is available on both iOS and Android, first launched in June in the US, UK and Canada. It allows users to listen to PDFs, articles, newsletters, ePub files, or “any other text content” according to the developer, but this support apparently does not extend to Kindle files or Apple Books.
There is a good selection of voices generated by artificial intelligence (AI) available for the text-to-speech tool, including deceased celebrities like Judy Garland, James Dean and Burt Reynolds. The few I've heard are impressive enough to avoid sounding overly robotic. ElevenLabs said that their respective heirs were “excited to see their legacies live on” upon release, so these voices are likely licensed.
The reader app is free to download and use and will not consume credits from ElevenLabs' web-based subscription plan. However, the company is planning to “eventually release some premium version of the app” but promehave a “generous free plan” available when this happens.
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