Read without losing your place.
Reads any page aloud, lighting up every word as it speaks.
This is real audio, not an animation — the same voice that will read your pages.
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How to use ListenReader
Helpful for ADHD, dyslexia, reading fatigue, study retention and accessibility — and for anyone who understands better by hearing.
Look top right of any page for the small dark bar that says Listen.
Press Read full article, or select some text, and I will read it to you, lighting up every word as I say it.
The control arm on the right pauses me, rewinds, changes my speed, or swaps my voice.
Double click any word to see what it means.The satellite nobody can switch off
The oldest human object still circling the Earth is a satellite about the size of a grapefruit.
Its battery ran flat within weeks, but a handful of solar cells kept it talking for six more years.
It has been silent ever since, and nobody can bring it down.
It is expected to keep going round for another century and a half.The deepest hole ever dug
The deepest hole humans have ever dug is a little over twelve kilometres straight down, in the far north of Russia.
It took more than twenty years.
The scientists stopped not because they ran out of money, but because the rock at the bottom behaved nothing like they expected.
It was hotter, softer, and full of water that should not have been there at all.1
Pin it. Puzzle piece, then the pin — Listen stays one click away.
Click the puzzle piece
then the pin
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Open any article. News, Google Docs, PDFs, even a photo of a page.
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Press Listen. Top right of the page. The glow follows every word as it reads.