Ways to read — Listen
Yes. Listen reads any book aloud and lights each sentence as it is spoken, so you can follow with your eyes or just listen.
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying
— Homer, The Odyssey
Tired eyes, busy hands, and anyone who learns by ear.
Listening is not counted as reading speed — the pace is the voice’s, not yours. Your device’s own voices are free; Readeroom’s narrators are part of the Study.
Free on every plan with your device’s voices.
How every way of reading is measured, and what we refuse to claim, is in the Method.
Open the reader, pull down the menu at the top, and choose Listen.
Open the reader