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Open the web app, choose Add, then paste a link, pick a file or paste text. It appears in your library, ready to play.

PDF, EPUB, Markdown, HTML and plain text files, web articles by link, and pasted text. Scanned PDFs without a text layer can’t be read yet.

Tap the sentence in the reader, then choose Play from here.

Add the web app to your home screen or dock. The steps for each device are on the download page.

Tap the voice name in the player and pick another. Reading continues from the current sentence.

Expressive voices and your own voice run on shared graphics hardware with a daily budget. Everyone gets a fair share of it. Standard voices have no limit.

Go to Voices, choose Record your voice and read the eight lines shown. A quiet room and a steady distance from the microphone give the best result.

Yes, from 0.5× to 3× in the player. The sleep timer is next to it.

Yes, so your library, voices and progress can follow you between devices. While we start out, accounts are by invitation.

Your email address, the documents you add, your listening progress and settings, and your voice recordings if you make a voice. The details are in our Privacy policy.

Delete any document or voice in the app. To delete your whole account, write to help@streams.watch from the address you signed up with.

Install the web app to your home screen and play from there. Some phones also stop background audio to save battery, so allow Streams Reader to run in the background.

The first minute of a new document can take a few seconds to prepare. If it stays silent, check your connection and try again. Expressive voices may wait for the next daily share.

Some pages mix the article with other content. Paste the text directly instead, and tell us the link so we can improve the import.