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Lisen

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Free Read Aloud with Cartesia Voices

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Free Read Aloud with Cartesia Voices

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Chrome Extensions

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Text-to-Speech Software

Free read aloud for any article with your Cartesia voices. No subscription on top of your Cartesia plan.

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Launch tags:Chrome Extensions•Artificial Intelligence•Books

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VSLook

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Free read aloud for any article with your Cartesia voices. No subscription on top of your Cartesia plan. Listen to any article with your Cartesia voices, free. Lisen is a free Chrome extension that reads web pages aloud with the Cartesia voices you already pay for, and costs nothing on top. No subscription, no account to create. Reads what you already read. Articles, blog posts, newsletters, documentation, Substack, Medium, long threads: anything with a body of text on the page. Listen on the commute, while cooking, or when your eyes have had enough of the screen. Follows along on the page. Click the icon on an article and a small player appears. As it reads, the current passage is tinted and the spoken word is marked, so you never lose your place. Start now, or generate the whole thing. Streaming starts speaking as soon as you press play. Ahead of time generates the full article first, then shows the exact length and a bar you can scrub. Every number on the player is measured from the audio; nothing is estimated. Your account, your voices. Paste your Cartesia API key and pick any voice in your library, including voices you have cloned or designed there. You pay Cartesia for what you generate and nothing else. Save it as audio. Download any article as a WAV. The word timings are stored in the file, so read-along works when you open it again. Nothing leaves until you press play. There is no Lisen server. Your key and settings stay in Chrome on your device. Page text goes to Cartesia only when you press play, and only from pages where you opened the player. No analytics, no telemetry. Do I need a Cartesia account? Yes. Lisen speaks through Cartesia, so you need an account and an API key from it. What does it cost? Lisen is free. You pay Cartesia for the speech you generate, on whatever plan you have with them, which starts with a free tier.

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3d ago

This could be really handy for long articles when you want to read with yours ears instead of your eyes. How natural does it sound with different types of content?

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3h ago

Using your existing Cartesia voices is a really nice touch.

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2h ago

I like that there’s no Lisen server sitting in the middle of this.

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2h ago

No extra subscription on top of Cartesia is a pretty straightforward model.

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1h ago

The WAV export is interesting Didn’t expect that from a simple read aloud extension.

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2h ago

How does it handle pages with a lot of stuff around the actual article?

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2h ago

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VSLook

Maker

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3d ago

This could be really handy for long articles when you want to read with yours ears instead of your eyes. How natural does it sound with different types of content?

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3h ago

Using your existing Cartesia voices is a really nice touch.

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2h ago

I like that there’s no Lisen server sitting in the middle of this.

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2h ago

No extra subscription on top of Cartesia is a pretty straightforward model.

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1h ago

The WAV export is interesting Didn’t expect that from a simple read aloud extension.

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2h ago

How does it handle pages with a lot of stuff around the actual article?

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2h ago

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