Text to speech: read PDFs, articles, eBooks & scans aloud in natural voices
Read Anything is a text to speech app that reads any text aloud in a natural voice. Paste an article, open a PDF or eBook, save a web page, or scan a printed page, and listen while you walk, cook, commute or rest your eyes. Each word is highlighted as it is spoken, so you can follow along or look away.
🔊 TEXT TO SPEECH FOR EVERYTHING YOU READ
• Paste or type any text and press play
• Read the clipboard aloud in one tap
• Save web articles from a link: page clutter is removed, only the story is read
• Open PDF, EPUB eBooks, Word (.docx), TXT, RTF and HTML files
• Scan printed pages with your camera, or pick photos: text recognition turns them into speech
• Scanned PDFs without a text layer are recognised automatically
• Share text or links from any app, or select text anywhere and choose "Read aloud"
📖 READ ALOUD WITH WORD HIGHLIGHTING
• Sentence and word highlighting as the voice reads
• Tap any sentence to jump straight to it
• Skip back or ahead by sentence or by 10 seconds
• Chapters and sections for eBooks, PDF pages and article headings
• Your place is saved automatically; pick up exactly where you left off
• Adjustable text size for comfortable reading
🗣️ NATURAL TEXT TO SPEECH VOICES
• Speed from 0.5x to 3x, with quick presets, and pitch control
• Choose any voice installed on your phone and preview it first
• Offline voices keep reading without internet
• Each document is read in its own language with a matching voice on your phone
• Pronunciation list: teach it names, brands and words it gets wrong
• Skip web links and citation markers like [12] automatically
🎙️ SPEECH TO TEXT DICTATION
• Hold the floating mic bubble in any app, speak, let go: your words are typed at the cursor
• Double-tap for hands-free, one more tap to stop; a session stops by itself after 5 minutes
• Uses your phone's on-device speech recognition when available, so it works offline, with no account
• Tap × to cancel a recording at any time
🎧 KEEP LISTENING
• Background playback with the screen off
• Controls on the lock screen, in notifications, on headphones and Bluetooth
• Sleep timer for bedtime reading
• Up next queue: documents play one after another
• Turn any document into an audio file (WAV), like your own audiobook
📚 YOUR LIBRARY
• Everything you add is saved on your phone, ready to resume
• Search, filters for in progress and finished, and favourites
• Rename, edit, share or delete any document
📊 LISTENING INSIGHTS
• Minutes listened this week, day streaks and finished documents
• See what you listen to most
🔒 PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account and no sign-up
• Your documents are stored only on your phone and excluded from cloud backup
• Files and photos open only when you pick them; no storage permission needed
🌍 The app speaks your language too: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Polish and Danish.
Read Anything is free and supported by ads. Ads never play over your reading. Light and dark themes. Made by Red Fleet.
Download Read Anything: text to speech for articles, PDFs, eBooks and scans, with speech to text dictation built in.