SpeakCoveRead aloud in 31 languages.
From English and Deutsch to العربية, हिन्दी and 日本語, every language gets all ten voices and the same sentence highlight. Pick it from the menu in your browser, or let the app set it when you import a file.
Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.
Er lag auf seinem panzerartig harten Rücken und sah, wenn er den Kopf ein wenig hob, seinen gewölbten, braunen, von bogenförmigen Versteifungen geteilten Bauch, auf dessen Höhe sich die Bettdecke, zum gänzlichen Niedergleiten bereit, kaum noch erhalten konnte.
Seine vielen, im Vergleich zu seinem sonstigen Umfang kläglich dünnen Beine flimmerten ihm hilflos vor den Augen.
One reader, seven scripts.
The language menu lists all 31 by their own names. The reader plays a sample in Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Devanagari, Japanese and Korean script, with the sentence being read highlighted.
Open your text
Open a book or document, from PDF to EPUB, or paste text. In the app, you can also pick a free book from the library.
Set its language
In the browser, pick it from the language menu. The app sets it for you when you import a file, and you can change it.
Press play
Any of the ten voices reads it in that language, and the sentence it is on stays highlighted.
On languages
What the language changes.
The language setting tells the voice how to pronounce what it reads. The same ten voices speak all 31 languages, so you can keep the voice you like when you go from an English paper to a Russian novel. Each language is read in its own script: Русский in Cyrillic, Ελληνικά in Greek, العربية, हिन्दी, 日本語 and 한국어 in theirs.
In the browser, you choose the language from the menu next to the voice. It starts on the language of the page you are on, so you only touch it for a text in another language. The app sets it for you: when you import a file, it looks at the text and picks the language. If the text is too short to tell, it uses the default language from Settings. You can change it for each document in the reader.
Left as digits, numbers can get lost in many languages, so SpeakCove writes them out as words before the voice sees them. In German, “3” becomes “drei”, and a date like “19.10.2026” becomes “neunzehn Oktober zweitausendsechsundzwanzig”, with that language’s month names. Numbers longer than nine digits are read one digit at a time, since they are usually account numbers or IDs. English is the exception: the voice handles English numbers, prices and years itself.
The language matters for scanned pages too. In the browser, a scanned PDF is recognized in the language you picked, and if you change the language afterwards, the pages are recognized again. Set it before you open a scan and you skip that second pass.
One limit is worth knowing. A text is read in one language from start to finish, so a French line inside a Russian novel gets Russian pronunciation. Languages outside the 31 are not covered. The app has an Other Language setting for them, but the voices were not made for those languages.
- Languages
- 31, listed by their own names.
- العربيةArabic
- БългарскиBulgarian
- HrvatskiCroatian
- ČeštinaCzech
- DanskDanish
- NederlandsDutch
- EnglishEnglish
- EestiEstonian
- SuomiFinnish
- FrançaisFrench
- DeutschGerman
- ΕλληνικάGreek
- हिन्दीHindi
- MagyarHungarian
- Bahasa IndonesiaIndonesian
- ItalianoItalian
- 日本語Japanese
- 한국어Korean
- LatviešuLatvian
- LietuviųLithuanian
- PolskiPolish
- PortuguêsPortuguese
- RomânăRomanian
- РусскийRussian
- SlovenčinaSlovak
- SlovenščinaSlovenian
- EspañolSpanish
- SvenskaSwedish
- TürkçeTurkish
- УкраїнськаUkrainian
- Tiếng ViệtVietnamese
- Scripts
- Latin, Cyrillic (Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian), Greek, Arabic, Devanagari (Hindi), Japanese and Korean.
- Voices
- All ten voices speak every language.
- Choosing the language
- Browser: from the language menu, starting on the language of the page.App: set on import from the text itself, with the default language from Settings when the text is too short. Change it per document in the reader.
- Numbers
- Written out as words in the reading language, with its decimal comma or point. English numbers are read by the voice directly.Browser: 26 languages; Bulgarian, Estonian, Slovak and Slovenian stay digits. App: every language but English.
- Long numbers
- More than nine digits are read one digit at a time.
- Dates
- 19.10.2026, 10/19/2026 and 2026-10-19 are read with the month name. With slashes, English reads the month first; other languages read the day first.
- Scanned pages
- Browser: recognized in the language you picked, and again when you change it.
- Other languages
- App: an Other Language setting as a fallback.
Does SpeakCove detect the language automatically?
In the app, yes: it sets the language when you import a file, and you can change it in the reader. In the browser you pick it from the language menu, which starts on the language of the page.
Can it read Japanese, Korean, Arabic or Hindi?
Yes. All four are among the 31 languages and are read from their own script, with any of the ten voices. The sentence being read is highlighted the same way as in English.
How does it read numbers and dates?
It writes them out as words in the reading language first, so 19.10.2026 in German is read as “neunzehn Oktober zweitausendsechsundzwanzig”. Numbers longer than nine digits are read one digit at a time.
My language is not on the list. Can it still read it?
The voices speak these 31 languages; Chinese, for example, is not one of them. The app has an Other Language setting as a fallback, but the voices were not made for other languages.
Hear it in your language.
Open the reader, pick your language from the menu and press play. No sign-up, no install.
Scans and paper
Scanned PDFs and photos of paper are recognized, then read aloud.
Follow along
The sentence being read is highlighted, and you can tap any sentence to jump there.