Comparison
Which read-aloud app should you use?
ONarrator, Speechify, NaturalReader, and Apple Spoken Content compared through concise pros, cons, and the use case each one suits best.
Blog
PDFs, speech, privacy, and the details that decide whether a reading tool gets out of your way.
- PDFs
Why PDFs read aloud so badly
Headers, footers, page numbers, and captions live in the same text layer as the prose. Why most read-aloud tools narrate them, and what it takes to stop.
- Privacy
How to listen to a PDF without uploading it
Most tools that read a PDF aloud send it to a server first. Here is how to listen on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad while the file stays on your device.
- Speech
Following the voice, word by word
Highlighting each word as it is spoken looks trivial and is not. A short tour of why aligning audio to text is hard, and the two ways to do it.
