Speech Central – Voice Reader

Name: Speech Central – Voice Reader
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Rating: 4.420000076293945 (1642 reviews)
Author: Labsii Ltd.

Labsii Ltd.

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About this app

Speech Central is a Text to Speech (TTS) reader that reads aloud PDFs, web pages, eBooks, and documents — built for serious reading, privacy, and control.

If you’re looking for a read aloud app, TTS reader, book reader, or a reliable way to read PDF aloud, Speech Central is designed for long-form listening.

No subscription. No ads. No data collection.
By human, for humans.

Unlock unlimited use with a one-time purchase. Speech Central is also free for blind users when TalkBack is enabled and in managed school environments (used in 100,000+ managed school deployments across platforms).

TEXT TO SPEECH FOR PDF, EBOOKS & WEB
• PDF TTS reader with accurate reading order and navigation
• eBook reader for EPUB, plus common document formats
• Web reader for full articles, headlines, and RSS feeds
• Share from your browser or other apps to “Read aloud”
• Read-it-later with Instapaper integration

OPEN VOICE PLATFORM: OFFLINE + AI/CLOUD
• Use Android system voices and compatible third-party voices (available on Google Play) offline
• Our free app Speech Central Pack: Kokoro offers high-quality offline voices that are performant enough for the seamless playback on wide range of devices
• Optional AI/cloud voices with your own API keys (BYOK):
– OpenAI and compatible open-source or self-hosted services
– Microsoft Azure Speech
– Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
– xAI TTS platform
• Proprietary enhancement improves voice realism, high-speed comprehension, and streaming reliability

FAST, POWERFUL, AND FLEXIBLE
• Instant Mode for quick “tap and listen”
• More than 80 settings and customization options for full control
• Custom layouts for phones, tablets, foldables, and Chromebooks
• Full UI customization, including complete color control
• Optional automatic archiving

ACCESSIBILITY THAT ADAPTS
• ADHD and Dyslexia modes that adapt text layout, highlighting, and behavior—not just fonts
• Automatic adjustments when TalkBack is on, including low-vision mode without setup
• Advanced accessibility for different vision, attention, and reading needs

STUDY + EXPORT
• Bookmarks, comments, and text highlights
• Export annotated text to .docx
• Optional audio export with compatible offline voices

PRIVACY BY DESIGN
Speech Central does not track you or collect your data. Period.

Notes:

* The free version limits the number of articles and books you can add daily/monthly. The Pro add-on removes these limits.
* A purchased license is valid only for Android.
* DRM-protected books (such as Kindle books) are locked to their vendor apps and cannot be imported.
* AI-based features may not work as expected in a small number of cases.

Text to speech for serious reading. Your PDF, eBook, document, and web reader since 2014.

Text to speech for serious reading. Your PDF and web reader since 2014.

Updated on

Nov 6, 2026

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Ratings and reviews

1.54K reviews

JR Alvarado

July 12, 2021

So far, not bad. I wish there was a way to import or add websites in bulk or to read. the sync to pocket does not seem to work properly. I was hoping to use this app to read web novels (some are hundreds and thousands of pages). So the current option or process to add even one page is too cumbersome. If there was a way to import or add sites in bulk or a little easier, this would be an easy 5 rating and would definitely push it to the web novel community.

12 people found this review helpful

Labsii Ltd.

July 13, 2021

The app does work properly on web novels that have hundreds of pages if web sites are made properly to indicate that, I can send you a sample to check. Also you can send the sample of what is not working, because as said everything works properly including Pocket, I have just checked. If you need help on setting it up please contact me, thanks!

Seth Millis

May 14, 2022

To put it bluntly, this app is good, but the kinks need to be worked out. To give some backstory about my experience with books, I have a hard time keeping my attention with them to the point where I would have to rely on an audiobook to have someone read the book for me. Problem is, I started listening to full-cast audiobooks, and as a result, I have trouble listening to single-narrated audiobooks. But being a user of the Kindle and using their ebooks, with some audiobooks, they not only offer books in ebook form, but can also offer the audiobook at a reduced price, and when you own both of them, if you just want to read the book but need help following along, the Kindle will highlight the word of the audiobook is saying to you, and it's helped me follow along the story of my choice. But the problem with that method, is that not every book has an audiobook, and for those that do, it can hurt your wallet after awhile. I will not mention another app that I have been using before I found this one, but I was looking for an alternative to this certain app I've been using before this one, and while it did what it was supposed to do, my trial run was about to run out and they were asking for a very high subscription price that I couldn't afford. So doing some window shopping, I found this app, and after taking a test run, it did everything I wanted it to do, to the point where I automatically made the jump and bought the full version of this app and have been using it ever since. Now here's where the kinks come in, when I first started using the app, there were times where the word that was supposed to be narrated by the app would not be highlighted and I didn't know why it wouldn't, but I eventually found a workaround to that problem. I figured out that the words would only be highlighted if a female voice did it and not a male one, but I picked out en-US-language English out of the dropbox, as opposed to Random (Prefer High Quality), and it works without any problems. Now here's another problem I'm having with this app, sometimes when I open a book I want to read, the app will not open the book no matter how many times I click on the book title. I have to restart the app multiple times until I can get it to open the book. This is obviously gonna have to be something that you guys are gonna need to fix down the road. Other than not opening the book until I restart it a few times, this will become my new app for reading books down the road. Thank you.

35 people found this review helpful

Labsii Ltd.

May 22, 2022

UPDATE: the issue should have been fixed, please check it. \\ For the highlighter it depends on the voices capabilities and app doesn't provide any voices. For Google provided voices those that have 'local' in the name have the capability to provide the proper highlight feedback and those titled as 'network' don't.

K G

April 12, 2022

I'm so happy to have a tts reader that can read my PDFs and still use the voices I previously purchased from CereProc. I love that you can change the color scheme since white text on a black background is easier on my eyes. The only issue I've had is that some names are pronounced incorrectly. Is there a way to manually change the pronunciation of some words?

3 people found this review helpful

Labsii Ltd.

April 14, 2022

Thanks. On the iOS the feature is supported at the operating level so once you set custom pronunciation it affects all apps, hopefully Google will implement the same feature in Android. If it doesn't I will consider to implement it in the future.