What Eleven Labs Reader does
ElevenReader is a text-to-speech app from ElevenLabs that reads PDFs, eBooks, articles, and web pages aloud, and also offers a library of audiobooks. The page lists read-aloud support for PDF, DOCX, EPUB, Markdown, and TXT files. Voices include 1,000+ natural voices and Iconic Voices, with narrators in 90+ languages. Ultra adds custom narrators designed from a text prompt, smart file imports that skip headers and footers, and offline downloads. Features include 4.0x playback speed, a sleep timer, bookmarks, and syncing between web and mobile. The library lists 200,000+ premium audiobooks and thousands of free ones. A Chrome browser extension is listed. The Free plan is $0 per month with 10 hours of text-to-audio.
How Eleven Labs Reader compares with its closest alternatives
All 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Eleven Labs Reader does. 3 of the 5 offer an API; FalcoScan's records show none for Eleven Labs Reader. Eleven Labs Reader offers a web app and a mobile app. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app and 3 offer a mobile app. Eleven Labs Reader was founded in 2022; the alternatives were founded between 2016 and 2022, 1 of them earlier. Eleven Labs Reader is based in London, United Kingdom; 2 of the 4 alternatives with a known headquarters are in the United Kingdom too, and the others in the United States.