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Castreader — Read Aloud

✨ AI-Powered
👥 1K+ users
📦 v1.1.5
💾 3.75MiB
📅 2026-05-07
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Overview

🎧 CastReader — Free Read Aloud for Kindle, PDF & Articles

Listen to any webpage in natural AI voices. Every paragraph highlights as the audio reaches it, auto-scrolling to keep you on track. Read and listen at
the same time — never lose your place when your mind wanders.

✓ 100% free. No signup. No limits.
✓ 40+ languages with Kokoro AI voices.

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⭐ WHY CASTREADER

Most text-to-speech tools just play audio in the background. CastReader is built for focused reading — eyes and ears tracking together. The active
paragraph highlights, the page auto-scrolls, you stay locked in. Perfect for long articles, research papers, and books that demand sustained attention.

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📚 WHERE IT WORKS

CastReader works on any webpage with readable text. Specifically optimized for:

• Long-form articles, blogs, and news sites — clean extraction that skips ads and navigation.
• PDF files opened in your browser.
• Web-based e-book readers and reading subscriptions, including pages that render text on canvas (we use OCR for those).
• Academic papers and research preprints — smart extractors skip references and figure captions.
• AI assistant conversations.
• Cloud documents and online editors.

If a page has readable text, CastReader can read it aloud.

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🎯 THREE WAYS TO LISTEN

1. Click the CastReader icon in your browser toolbar — reads the whole page aloud.
2. Hit the Listen button that appears on supported sites.
3. Select any text and tap the play button — listens to just that selection.

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🎙️ VOICE QUALITY

Powered by Kokoro AI, a state-of-the-art open voice model. Natural pacing and proper sentence rhythm — suitable for sustained listening through long
content without the fatigue of basic synthesizer TTS.

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🌍 40+ LANGUAGES

Auto-detects content language. Pick a specific voice from the floating player.

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📱 SEND TO PHONE

Listening on your laptop but want to keep going on your commute? Send any session to your phone with a QR code — audio streams to your mobile player
while you walk, drive, or run.

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🔒 PRIVACY

CastReader only reads text from the page you're currently on to generate audio. Browsing history, account info, reading content — none of that is sent
or collected. No tracking, no profiling, no ads.

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💰 FREE FOREVER

No free trial. No premium tier. No character limits. No subscription. Use it as much as you want.

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Install it. Click the icon. Listen. That's it.

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Privacy Practices

Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

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