A Voice Reader for Simply Broken
Press play on any page, put the phone in a pocket, and keep listening. What that takes: the engine that speaks the words, the code that plays them, and the two places where the obvious answer turns out to be the wrong one.
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- The button — four ways out of the black disc "Not visible enough, and too intrusive" is one fault, not two: the corner button spends mass where it should spend meaning. Four replacements, each buying visibility with a word, a colour, motion or a measured waveform — plus a full player at the top of the article that hands off to the corner as it scrolls away. Live, on a real post. Open →
- Hebrew — three takes, one honest failure English is Onyx and solved; Hebrew is a different country. Your cloned voice and Brian both read the test passage near-perfect on ElevenLabs v3; the local engine's official Hebrew garbles it — the failure is on the rack so it is heard, not just claimed. Open →
- Chasing Brian — two local engines against the winner Three Chatterbox clones of Brian's own clip, and three deep American presets from Kokoro, a second engine researched and installed the same day: Apache-licensed, no watermark, and six times FASTER than realtime — the whole site in 45 minutes. Open →
- The stack-up — ElevenLabs joins the rack Three paid narrators chosen for depth and authority (Brian, Adam, George) against the two best free local clones, same paragraph. All three transcribe word-perfect; the callout prices what a paid win would actually mean. Open →
- Deeper — five voices with more weight Round two of the voice search: the cloning reference itself is pitched and bass-shaped down before the model hears it, so the clone inherits a bigger voice. Two of five transcribe word-perfect; the check found where the depth limit sits. Open →
- The listen dock A capsule in the bottom-left corner that grows into a control panel on play and shrinks when the article ends. Live on the page. Bottom-left because the two corners the reach studies prefer are already taken by the feedback bar. Open →
- The voice — six takes on one paragraph The stock voice against five clones of Amit's own, varying the reference cut and the two settings that change how a sentence lands. Every take transcribed back and checked: cloning fixed the pace by itself, and two of the three reference cuts bend a word. Open →
- The research, and a post read aloud Eight engines priced against the real corpus, the iOS rules that decide how the player is built, and a working prototype narrating a 2021 post with the free local engine. Also: why the industry skips images, and the alt-text rule that fixes it for nothing. Open →
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The whole site is 202,000 characters, so every commercial engine narrates it for less than the price of a lunch. Cost is not the decision. The voice is.