Give your readers a listen button that highlights each word as it's spoken, in a natural voice. Add it with one line of code. Unlike ReadSpeaker, our prices are published: from $0 a month, with unlimited listens and no annual contract.
Add one line
<script src="https://readingvox.com/widget.js" data-key="YOUR_API_KEY" data-voice="heart" async></script>Thewatercycleisthecontinuousmovementofwaterthroughtheenvironment.Waterevaporatesfromoceansandlakes,risesintotheatmosphere,formsclouds,andfallsbackasrain.
That's the whole integration. Works on any site where you can add a script tag.
This site runs the same widget your visitors will get. Click the ReadingVox button in the bottom-right corner and press play. Watch each word highlight as it's read.
Sample article
Some visitors read on a small screen while commuting. Some have dyslexia or low vision. Some are reading in their second language. A listen button meets all of them where they are, and word highlighting helps them follow along instead of losing their place.
Because audio is generated once and cached, the thousandth listener hears it just as quickly as the second, and you never pay for a replay.
No SDK, no build step, no procurement process.
Create an account in under a minute. No credit card, no sales call.
Add the site you'll embed on. Your API key only works on domains you've added.
Drop the snippet into your site template. Visitors get a listen button with word highlighting.
<script src="https://readingvox.com/widget.js" data-key="YOUR_API_KEY" data-voice="heart" async></script>Everything your readers need to listen, follow along, and understand.
Every word lights up exactly as it's spoken, using word-level timestamps from the voice engine, not estimates.
Audio is generated once and cached. Every replay, by every visitor, is free and doesn't count against your plan.
Visitors select any passage, translate it, and hear it read aloud. Included on all paid plans.
Let visitors listen to an entire page in 13 languages, machine translated: natural voices for Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Japanese and Chinese, the browser voice for the rest. Included on Business or as an add-on.
Dictionary, text size, dyslexia-friendly fonts (including OpenDyslexic), high-contrast page colors, a reading ruler, a magnifier, a clutter-free reading view, and AI vocabulary simplification.
Your API key sits in your page source, so it's locked to the domains you add. Paste it on another website and it won't play.
Every plan gets the full toolbar; Pro and Business get all 6 premium voices. Pick which tools appear with data-tools and match your brand with data-color.
One click reads the whole page, or just the part you select.
Each word lights up as it's spoken (English). Translated playback shows a sentence caption.
6 natural English voices (Heart, Michael, Lily, Leo, Mia, Theo), US and UK accents, chosen in Settings.
Slower and faster buttons, 0.5x to 2x.
Built-in dictionary with definitions, examples and synonyms.
Make text up to twice as large.
Dyslexia-friendly fonts, including OpenDyslexic.
12 high-contrast color combinations for easier reading.
A reading ruler that keeps focus on a few lines at a time.
Big-text view of the sentence being read.
A clutter-free reading view of any page.
AI rewrites tricky words in plain language, with the original one hover away.
Select text, translate it into one of 13 languages and hear it read aloud.
Paid plansHear the whole page machine-translated into 13 languages (7 with natural voices, 6 with the browser voice). A caption replaces word highlighting.
Business or Multilingual add-onNever breaks: past your limit, pages still read aloud.
Built-in help explains every tool.
Choose which tools appear with data-tools and match your brand with data-color.
Reads Google Docs and Slides with highlighting.
Chrome extension onlyReads text inside images and scanned content.
Chrome extension onlyFull keyboard control, with shortcuts readers can customize.
The same core idea, a listen button for your content, without the procurement process.
| Category | ReadingVox | ReadSpeaker webReader |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started | Self-serve signup, live in minutes | Sales call and quote |
| Pricing | Published on our pricing page | Quote-only |
| Commitment | Monthly billing (annual optional) | Annual contracts |
| Listens | Unlimited plays of cached audio | Depends on your contract |
To be fair: ReadSpeaker supports many more languages than we do. ReadingVox reads English, plus whole-page listening in 13 more languages via machine translation (7 with natural voices).
Pay for characters generated, not for listens. Replays of cached audio are always free.
Free
$0/mo
100K characters/month
1 domain
Starter
$19/mo
1M characters/month
1 domain
Pro
$49/mo
5M characters/month
5 domains
Business
$149/mo
20M characters/month
Unlimited domains
Save with annual billing. Multilingual add-on $19/mo for Starter and Pro, included in Business.
For schools & colleges
One flat yearly price for your whole institution, from $750, with a 30-day pilot and payment by card or PO. That's at least 60% below ReadSpeaker's 2018–2020 Michigan consortium price list at the same student count.*
Native in Canvas and Moodle. Schoology, D2L Brightspace, Blackboard Ultra, and Google Classroom work through our Chrome extension. Install guides
* Compares yearly fees for 1,001–54,999 students against ReadSpeaker webReader for the LMS on the Michigan Colleges Online consortium price schedule effective April 2018 – March 2020, which already included a 15% consortium discount and excluded setup fees. ReadSpeaker doesn't publish current prices, so yours may differ. See the comparison and source.
Only newly generated audio and translated text. When a page is read for the first time, its characters count once. After that the audio is cached and every replay, by any visitor, is free. A typical 4,000-character article costs 4,000 characters once.
6 natural-sounding English neural voices with US and UK accents, male and female: Heart, Michael, Lily, Leo, Mia and Theo. Set the default with the data-voice attribute; visitors can pick another voice in Settings and adjust the speed from 0.5x to 2x. Free and Starter use two standard neural voices, Ava and Sam; Pro and Business include all 6.
Pages are read in English by default. With the Multilingual add-on (or the Business plan), visitors can listen to whole pages machine-translated into 13 languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Japanese and Chinese with natural voices, and German, Korean, Arabic, Russian, Vietnamese and Filipino with the visitor's browser voice. Word-by-word highlighting is English only; translated playback shows the current sentence as a caption. If you need dozens of languages, a provider like ReadSpeaker covers more than we do today.
If you can add a script tag to your site's template, it works: WordPress, Webflow, Squarespace, Shopify, static sites, React, Next.js, Vue, and plain HTML.
Yes. Keys are locked to the domains you verify in your dashboard, so requests from any other site are rejected.
No. The Free plan includes 100K characters per month on one domain, with a small "Powered by ReadingVox" badge. Upgrade when you need more.
For text-to-speech built into Canvas or Moodle, use the Institution plan: one flat yearly price for your LMS and website, from $750 a year, with a 30-day pilot. On Schoology, D2L Brightspace, Blackboard Ultra, or Google Classroom, students use ReadingVox through our Chrome extension, which works on every site they visit. Go to ReadingVox for Schools →
Start on the Free plan. Add your domain, paste one line, and your readers can press play.
Schools & colleges: ReadingVox for your LMS