Robin, the Loudr robin, mid-song Say hi to Robin

The little bird that reads you the web

Meet Robin. Open any article or PDF, press play, and he reads it aloud in a warm, natural voice while the words follow along.

The demo runs right here in your browser. No install, no account, no card.

That's Loudr's real voice reading a real page. Add it and it reads any article you open.

Hear it on your own words

Paste in anything you have been meaning to read. Robin reads it out in a real neural voice and follows along, word by word.

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Reads in Ava, the same neural voice the extension uses. Your text is sent to the voice service to be spoken, and is not stored.

Built for people who read a lot and want their eyes back.

70+natural voices
40+languages
0.5–3×reading speed
$0to start
Why people keep it pinned

Reading, without the eye strain

Everything you need to turn the web, and your PDFs, into something you listen to.

Voices that sound human

Dozens of natural, expressive voices in 40+ languages, and you can hear any of them on a sample before you choose. Not a robot from 2009.

Follow along as it reads

The current sentence and word light up in time with the audio, so it is easy to keep your place or read along.

Reads PDFs, even scanned ones

Open a PDF and press play. Loudr turns it into a clean reading view, and reads scanned or image-only PDFs too using on-device text recognition. Nothing is uploaded.

Click any paragraph to jump

Skip ahead or go back by clicking straight on the text. No scrubbing, no fiddling with a timeline.

Never lose your place

Come back to any page or PDF and Loudr picks up at the exact sentence you stopped on. Reading, but bookmarked.

Yours, and private

No account and no tracking. Nothing you read is stored, and system voices never leave your device.

Thirty seconds to set up

Press play on anything

Add it to Chrome

One click from the Web Store. No sign up to get going.

Open any article or PDF

Hit the toolbar icon or press Alt+R on any page.

Listen and move on

Rest your eyes, do the dishes, or read along at your pace.

Simple pricing

Start free, go unlimited when you're ready

System voices are free forever. Natural voices come with a daily allowance, and Pro makes them unlimited.

Free
$0always

Everything you need to listen every day.

  • Unlimited reading with system voices
  • Sentence and word highlighting
  • Click to jump and speed control
  • A daily allowance of natural voices
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Pro
$29/ year

Every natural voice, unlimited. About $2.42 a month, billed yearly.

  • Unlimited natural voices in 40+ languages
  • Everything in Free, uncapped
  • Reads PDFs, including scanned ones
  • Cancel anytime
Add to Chrome, free
Or unlock Pro another way
$4.99per month $79once, forever
Good questions

The details

Is it really free?

Yes. Reading with your system voices is unlimited and always free, with no account. Natural voices have a generous daily allowance on the free plan, and Pro makes them unlimited.

What makes the natural voices sound so good?

Loudr uses high quality neural voices, the same kind of technology behind modern read aloud features. They carry real intonation and rhythm instead of the flat, robotic sound of older text to speech.

Does it work on any website?

Loudr reads articles, blog posts, docs, and most text on the open web. Open a page, press play, or select a passage and choose read selection.

Can it read PDFs?

Yes. Open a PDF and press play, and Loudr lays it out as a clean reading view and reads it aloud with the same highlighting. Text PDFs work, and scanned or image-only PDFs are read using on-device text recognition, so even a scanned document reads aloud. Nothing is uploaded.

Does it remember where I left off?

It does. Come back to a page or PDF and Loudr picks up at the exact sentence you stopped on, with a one tap option to start over.

What about my privacy?

There are no accounts and no tracking, and nothing you read is stored. System voices are processed entirely on your device. For natural voices, only the sentence being spoken is sent to the voice service, and only while you are listening.

How does Pro pricing work?

Pro is $29 a year, or $4.99 a month, or $79 once for lifetime with no renewals. There is no separate free trial because the free plan already lets you try natural voices every day, so you know exactly what you are getting before you pay.

Robin, happily reading

Let Robin take it from here

Paste something in and hear how it sounds. Robin reads your articles and PDFs the same way, every day.

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