Slurp vs Speech It

Read it later. Hear it now. Slurp reads anything aloud and lights up every word as it is spoken. Articles, PDFs, Word documents, newsletters, feeds, podcasts and video live in one library that syncs through your own iCloud. Free, with no account and no tracking. SAVE IT FROM ANYWHERE • Share a link, text, an email or a file from any app: Slurp sits in the share sheet • Web links become a clean article, pictures and all • PDF, Word, OpenDocument, RTF, TXT, Markdown and HTML files keep their formatting • Posts from X and Bluesky arrive complete A READING LIST THAT STAYS TIDY • Collections and sub-collections, in the order you drag them into • Want to Read and Finished lists, and filters for articles, PDFs, posts, podcasts and video • Search runs over the full saved text, not just titles • Items, collections and reading position sync through your own iCloud A READER WORTH STAYING IN • Clean typography with the article's real images, kept for offline reading • The highlighted word stays in view as the page scrolls with the voice • PDFs read page for page, with headers and footers left unspoken • Pick up exactly where you stopped, on whichever device is in your hand FIVE VOICES, FOUR ON YOUR DEVICE • Kokoro, KittenTTS and Inflect: neural voices that run on your iPhone, with no key and no network • Apple: every voice installed on your device, Siri voices included • ElevenLabs: optional, with your own key • Read at 0.75× to 2×, and switch voice for a single item GENERATE ONCE, LISTEN EVERYWHERE New saves are narrated in the background and the finished audio syncs to your other devices, so playback starts at once, even with no signal. PODCASTS AND VIDEO, SAME LIBRARY YouTube, Vimeo, Apple Podcasts and Spotify episodes play beside your articles, with the same player and Lock Screen controls. Podcasts download when you add them. YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS, SPOKEN Follow any RSS or Atom feed, play a new entry on the spot or file it away for later. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account, no analytics, no server of ours that holds what you read. Your library lives on your devices and in your own iCloud. A bug report is sent only when you send one. Slurp is also on the Mac, with browser extensions and a shortcut that reads whatever you select in any app: slop.ee/goodies/slurp Made by Slop Agency.

Speech It turns the books and documents piling up on your device into audio you can enjoy anywhere. Import DRM-free EPUBs, PDFs, text files, and web articles, and listen to them read aloud in a natural voice. Clear your reading backlog during your commute, chores, or walks. ◆ Key Features - Flexible importing EPUB / PDF / plain text / web pages by URL / clipboard text. Files can also be opened from the Files app and the share sheet. - On-device translated listening Listen to an English book in Japanese and more: translation happens while reading aloud (iOS 18 or later, supported language pairs), with the translation and original shown side by side. - Background playback Keeps playing while your screen is locked, with full control from the Lock Screen and Control Center. Playback resumes automatically after interruptions such as phone calls. - Follow along visually The current sentence and word are highlighted and kept in view. Tap any sentence to start playback from there. - Table of contents & bookmarks Jump between chapters, bookmark individual sentences, and browse bookmarks across your whole library. - Organized library Sort books into folders. Your reading position is saved automatically, so you always pick up where you left off. - Voice customization Adjust speed (0.5x-2.0x), pick from your device's voices, tune the pitch, and preview voices before choosing. - Privacy first Parsing, translation, and speech synthesis all happen on your device. The contents of your books are never sent to a server. ◆ Notes - DRM-protected e-books are not supported. - Image-only (scanned) PDFs cannot be read aloud. - Translation requires iOS 18 or later. The app shows ads; an optional subscription removes them. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/