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    Reading is hard. Listen to articles instead.

    2015

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    Have your computer read to you.

    2019

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    Read faster, stay focused & absorb more - Create Audiobooks

    2017

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    Listen to any web article in your podcast player

    2021 · audioread.com

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    Let your ears do the reading.

    2019

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    Turn articles into audio and listen in your podcast app

    2022

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    Listen to blogs or texts while you are doing your daily work

    2019

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    Spokenly178

    Type 4x faster with your voice

    2025

  9. 9IG

    Hey HN. I’m Ivan, hacker from Ukraine. For about a year, I was working on Listenly — an app to listen to text content with OpenAI's natural-sounding text-to-speech model. At some moment, I realized that it would be cool to take all the public domain e-books and create audio versions for them. So I did it... kind-of. It would cost an immense amount of money to generate all the audio right away (OpenAI TTS costs approximately $0.84/hour of audio; 11labs, for comparison, is 10 times more expensive). So, I took a more gradual approach. I took all the metadata from the Project Gutenberg…

    2024 · listenly.io

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    On-device instant voice transcription

    Feb 2026

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    Dictato93

    Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac

    Feb 2026

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    Read smarter, not harder with this text-to-speech reader

    2022

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    Speechify147

    An AI that reads to you. Stay focused, read faster.

    2018

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    Transcribe & summarize looooong voice memos

    2025

  15. 15IM

    ...because Apple make it too hard to navigate chronologically through anything but your photos. Really they should have let you do this directly from voice memos so that you can share whenever and to wherever you want. If anyone has any suggestions to make it better, let me know. Thanks.

    2025 · justsendrecord.com

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    Listen to audiobooks at ridiculously fast speeds

    2016

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    ReadBit122

    Read wisely & save time with text-to-speech audiobook reader

    2021

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    Record, transcribe, curate audio + voice memos iPhone/iPad

    2024

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    Safari 97

    Spotify for Ebooks

    2014

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    Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS

    2025

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    Speechify but good—podcast-quality voices in your browser

    Jul 2026 · tryreadaloud.com

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    Listen to blog posts on your phone

    2021

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    Eary79

    The easiest way to listen to audiobooks on Spotify.

    2019

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    Timber reads any article, book, PDF, or pasted text aloud in natural voices — 324+ free, across 71 languages, all on your iPhone. Built by a teacher. Free on the App Store.

    11d ago · timberreader.com

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