Listen 2 Reader runs neural text-to-speech directly on your iPhone or iPad. No cloud services. No subscriptions. No accounts.

Most text-to-speech apps either use basic system voices or require monthly payments for cloud processing. Listen 2 Reader runs neural voice models locally, giving you natural-sounding speech without ongoing costs or privacy tradeoffs.

WHAT MAKES LISTEN2 DIFFERENT

Two Voice Engines, One App Piper provides reliable neural voices across 16 languages. Supertonic is the high-fidelity engine — flow-matching models running on Apple's Neural Engine via CoreML for natural rhythm and expressive speech. Choose from 100+ voices in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Vietnamese, and more.

Voice Tuning Fine-tune any voice with quality parameters. Save presets to switch between profiles. Preview pronunciation rules before saving them.

Import Anything PDF, EPUB, DOCX, DAISY, clipboard, or web articles. Share from Safari and Listen2 extracts the article text. Paywalled content works when shared from a browser where you are logged in.

Machine Learning Word Sync CTC forced alignment matches audio to text at the word level. Watch each word highlight as it is spoken — across Latin and non-Latin scripts alike.

Smart Document Reading Multi-column layout handling, footnote filtering, hyphenated word rejoining. AI Vision for scanned PDFs. Full EPUB, DOCX, and DAISY support.

Figure Descriptions On-device AI vision generates spoken descriptions of figures, charts, and photos as you listen. For non-English documents, descriptions translate automatically via Apple's on-device Translation framework.

Pronunciation Rules Fix how any word is spoken without changing display text. Rules for names, terms, or abbreviations. Live preview before saving. Built-in presets for footnote markers. Global or per-document.

True Offline Privacy Processing, normalization, and synthesis all happen on-device. Documents never leave your phone. No uploads. No accounts. No tracking.

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WHO IT'S FOR

One-time purchase. 7-day free trial. No subscriptions.