Listen instead of reading.
Select text in any Mac app, or bring Narrator a document, web page, or image. Epilude reads it aloud in the voice and speed you choose, with an on-device option for the work that should stay on your Mac.
Includes 5 minutes of cloud voice. No credit card required.
The art of taking a pause
A few quiet minutes can change the shape of an entire day. The pause does not need to be long or carefully planned.
Stepping away gives your attention somewhere to settle before the next thing begins. A walk around the block is often enough.
The work is still there when you come back. You return with a clearer sense of what deserves your attention first.
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How it works
Narrator
Start with almost anything
Select text in any Mac app, or bring Narrator a document, public web page, image, screen capture, or copied text.
Read along or look away
Follow the highlighted sentence or word, jump to another spot, or leave the reader behind and use the floating player.
Choose where it runs
EP-1's voice reads on your Mac. Choose a cloud voice when you want the online voice library.
Select it. Press one hotkey. Keep going.
Highlight text in any Mac app and press ⌥⌘N. Narrator starts reading without making you move the text into another app. The same command pauses and resumes, and with nothing selected in a browser it reads the page you’re on. “Narrate with Epilude” is also in the macOS Services menu.
The first prototype answered the easy questions.
The second showed us which question was worth asking.
That changed the plan for the next release.
Reading aloud
The second showed us…
Bring the things still sitting in your reading list
Open Narrator to paste a web link or copied text, type something new, or import a PDF, EPUB, DOCX, TXT, Markdown, HTML, or RTF file, scanned PDFs included. It can also pull the words from an image or a section of your screen. Each import goes into your narration library so you can return to it later.
Choose what Epilude should read aloud.
Follow every word, or put the screen away
The floating player shows the text as Narrator reads it and marks the sentence being read, the spoken word, or both, as you choose. RSVP mode shows one word at a time instead. Click a word to continue from there, or put the screen away and listen. Speed runs from 0.5× to 3×, and the player moves back or forward a sentence at a time.
A quieter afternoon
Stepping away gives your attention somewhere to settle before the next thing begins.
The work is still there when you come back.
Choose what leaves your Mac
EP-1 reads on your Mac. Its text and audio stay there unless you choose to put a narration on the web. Cloud voices send the text to Epilude to make the audio and give you the broadest voice library. The voice picker says where each option runs before you press play.
Pick up on your phone, or send the link
Put a narration on the web as “Only me” to finish it on another device, or make a link anyone can open. Epilude tells you exactly what will be uploaded before the first share. Reset the link or stop sharing at any time; the copy in your Mac library stays put.
Who can open it
A quieter afternoon
1:42 / 4:03
Start wherever the words are.
Select text without leaving the app in front of you, or bring a file, link, clipboard, image, or screenshot into Narrator. The listening happens in one place, even when the reading did not.
Safari
Google Chrome
Apple Mail
Gmail
Notion
Google DocsSafariGoogle ChromeApple MailGmailNotionGoogle Docs
Pages
Apple Notes
Substack
Medium
Obsidian
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Start with 5 minutes of cloud voice. No credit card required.
