Turn text into natural AI speech and choose from the voices currently available in CastReader. No credit card required.
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Select from CastReader's available natural AI voices. Voice availability varies by language and platform; private voice cloning is coming soon and is not available yet.
Say goodbye to robotic speech. Our AI voices can express a wide range of emotions—from excitement and happiness to whispering and seriousness—making your storytelling truly engaging.
Kokoro v1.0 supports eight languages. CastReader's formal catalog currently focuses on curated English and Chinese voices; other languages and non-English synchronization remain Beta/Lab, and quality varies.
Own your audio. Use CastReader generated voices for YouTube videos, podcasts, audiobooks, advertisements, and corporate training without worrying about copyright issues.
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An AI Voice Generator is a tool that uses artificial intelligence to convert written text into spoken audio that sounds like a human. CastReader uses advanced deep learning to produce voices that are indistinguishable from real human speakers.
Yes, CastReader offers a free tier that lets you generate high-quality AI speech at no cost. We also offer CastReader Pro for advanced users who need voice selection, more listening hours, and commercial rights.
Absolutely. You retain full commercial ownership of the audio files you generate, making CastReader perfect for monetized YouTube channels, advertisements, e-learning courses, and podcasts.
CastReader lets readers choose from its versioned public voice catalog today. Private voice cloning is coming soon and is not available in the public product yet; the planned consent and privacy boundaries are documented in the Voice Library.
The Kokoro v1.0 backend supports eight languages. The formal CastReader voice catalog currently focuses on curated English and Chinese voices. Other languages and non-English synchronization are available through Beta/Lab workflows, and availability and quality vary.
Text and generated speech are processed for the requested reading workflow. Private voice cloning is not publicly available yet; the planned design keeps reference data encrypted at rest, account-scoped, and outside the public voice catalog.
CastReader is widely considered the best choice for audiobooks due to its Long-Form generation capabilities and emotional consistency, ensuring your listeners stay engaged for hours.
Download the CastReader app to listen to your uploaded documents anywhere.
Hard numbers — not vibes — from authoritative sources
$2.22 billion
US audiobook sales in 2024, up 13% year-over-year (Publishers Weekly / Audio Publishers Association)
Source →51%
of US adults have listened to an audiobook in 2025 — roughly 134 million people (APA Consumer Survey 2025)
Source →2.2 billion
people globally with near- or far-vision impairment (WHO Fact Sheet, 2024). TTS is the primary access path for digital reading content.
Source →78%
of audiobook listeners multitask while listening — commute, chores, exercise (Audiolibrix Great Audiobook Survey, 2024)
Source →27.2 minutes
average single-trip US commute in 2024, up from 26.8 (US Census ACS via Statista). That's nearly an hour each day of audio-only time.
Source →effect size 0.35
measured comprehension lift from TTS for reading-disabled students across 22 studies (Wood, Moxley, Tighe & Wagner, Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2018)
Source →15.5 million
US adults with ADHD per CDC 2024 — about half diagnosed in adulthood (CDC MMWR, October 2024)
Source →Every Chrome Web Store review below is verifiable at the link in each card. We don't hide negative feedback — we answer it within 24 hours.
“This is 1 of the best TTS and its smooth. If this is truly free i'll keep this 100%. Every other TTS says its free but has a secret. They interrupt or they just say better ai voices pay. But i like this voice. I've tried loads and this is 1 of the best ones that actually says free.”
“Works perfectly on vivaldi. One suggestion though. I wish it had a play button appear next to a paragraph when we hover over it. Just like in the case of speechify.”
“Extremely user friendly short keys. Placed forward backward and speed up down as Natural as it could be. Voices are great and smooth. I would recommend it over many hyped products.”
“At the very least it's better than many paid TTS models. Still not as good as ElevenReader or LAP, but maybe the best free model for TTS.”
“So glad I can finally switch voices! The default was fine but I found one I actually enjoy listening to for hours. Small thing, huge difference.”
“Best one i found, user friendly, and great voice over.”
“ChatGPT's long answers are finally listenable. Let it generate while I listen — doubles my productivity. Love the inline button next to each response.”
“I tried using this add-on to listen to an ebook on the O'Reilly learning platform, and it works smoothly. However, it always restarts from the first paragraph whenever I scroll or select a different paragraph. Please consider adding a bookmark or checkpoint feature so users can mark where the reading should begin.”
↪ Founder reply
Replied by CastReader founder Yan Xu within 48 hours: acknowledged the issue, shipped a bookmark feature in the following release. Reviewer's verbatim feedback drove the v1.2 roadmap.
“Need to highlight text and select it.”
“Hard to select text.”
↪ Founder reply
Replied by CastReader founder Yan Xu within 24 hours: apologized, asked which site/browser the issue occurred on, provided a workaround using the keyboard shortcut, and offered direct support at support@castreader.com.
We re-test, re-write, and ship continuously. Every entry has a real date.
Rewrote landing pages with verbatim Chrome Web Store testimonials, real audiobook market data, and tested-12-extensions methodology. Every claim now has a sourceable link.
CastReader provides native apps for iPhone and Android; Android downloads are available directly from Google Play.
Wrote up the OCR pipeline: how CastReader handles Amazon's 184 random font alphabets and 361 unique glyphs per Kindle book. Shared in dev.to.
The phone app flow now has its own landing page for bookshelf sync, Read Aloud, synced highlighting, auto-scroll, background playback, and resume progress.
Ranked #10 in Daily, 99 upvotes, 4 community comments shaped the v1.2 roadmap.
Switched from older TTS engines to Kokoro neural voices. User reviews shifted from 'usable but robotic' to 'enjoy listening for hours' (verbatim from review by patrick chiang).
OCR success rate improved from 78% to 89% on English-language Kindle books. Multi-column page detection added for academic PDFs.
I built CastReader because I owned hundreds of Kindle books and couldn't listen to them on my morning runs without buying separate Audible copies. The technical problem — Amazon's Cloud Reader font encryption — turned out to be solvable with OCR. The product problem — making it actually pleasant across phones, desktops, and 9 supported languages — took two years of iteration. We're a small team. I answer every Chrome Web Store review personally (see testimonials above — including the 3-star and 1-star ones). If something's broken or missing, email support@castreader.com.
— Yan Xu, founder
Last reviewed: · CastReader Team — reviewed against 2025 testing data
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