Speech Central – Voice Reader

Labsii Ltd.

In-app purchases

About this app

Speech Central is a Text to Speech (TTS) reader that reads aloud PDFs, web pages, eBooks, and documents — built for serious reading, privacy, and control.

If you’re looking for a read aloud app, TTS reader, book reader, or a reliable way to read PDF aloud, Speech Central is designed for long-form listening.

No subscription. No ads. No data collection.
By human, for humans.

Unlock unlimited use with a one-time purchase. Speech Central is also free for blind users when TalkBack is enabled and in managed school environments (used in 100,000+ managed school deployments across platforms).

TEXT TO SPEECH FOR PDF, EBOOKS & WEB
• PDF TTS reader with accurate reading order and navigation
• eBook reader for EPUB, plus common document formats
• Web reader for full articles, headlines, and RSS feeds
• Share from your browser or other apps to “Read aloud”
• Read-it-later with Instapaper integration

OPEN VOICE PLATFORM: OFFLINE + AI/CLOUD
• Use Android system voices and compatible third-party voices offline
• Optional AI/cloud voices with your own API keys:
– OpenAI and compatible open-source or self-hosted services
– Microsoft Azure Speech
– Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
– xAI TTS platform
• Proprietary enhancement improves voice realism, high-speed comprehension, and streaming reliability

FAST, POWERFUL, AND FLEXIBLE
• Instant Mode for quick “tap and listen”
• More than 80 settings and customization options for full control
• Custom layouts for phones, tablets, foldables, and Chromebooks
• Full UI customization, including complete color control
• Optional automatic archiving

ACCESSIBILITY THAT ADAPTS
• ADHD and Dyslexia modes that adapt text layout, highlighting, and behavior—not just fonts
• Automatic adjustments when TalkBack is on, including low-vision mode without setup
• Advanced accessibility for different vision, attention, and reading needs

STUDY + EXPORT
• Bookmarks, comments, and text highlights
• Export annotated text to .docx
• Optional audio export with compatible offline voices

PRIVACY BY DESIGN
Speech Central does not track you or collect your data. Period.

Notes:

* The free version limits the number of articles and books you can add daily/monthly. The Pro add-on removes these limits.
* A purchased license is valid only for Android.
* DRM-protected books (such as Kindle books) are locked to their vendor apps and cannot be imported.
* AI-based features may not work as expected in a small number of cases.

Text to speech for serious reading. Your PDF, eBook, document, and web reader since 2014.

Ratings and reviews

It would be nice to be able to skip to the next sentence or paragraph from the toolbar, rather than having to set it as the two-finger action. I can pause, update my settings, or speed up from the bottom. Also, it absolutely reads footnotes, so being able to search, find, and quickly delete them from a web browser for larger PDFs would be incredibly helpful. When I try to scroll to find the text now, the app crashes. Also, how tedious to do this manually on my phone for a 500-pg PDF.

I got this after Evie was ruined. I haven't used this app for very long, but so far the speech is fine, once you figure out how to navigate it is very simple, so far I haven't had any ads pop up and ruin the experience, and so far the app has been free not requiring any subscriptions, it works offline, and there are no limits as far as I can tell. Please never ruin this app with ads and subscriptions, I have already lost 2 tts apps. I download books as pdfs and listen to them

It used to be the perfect reading app, but the updates destroyed it. I would get articles from websites like reddit and have the app read them to me and it was perfect. I could paste hours and hours of articles in and it wouldn't miss a beat and worked perfectly. Then suddenly it updated and there was a cacophony of bugs, it stopped gathering the article titles, it was more annoying to use, the voices were messing up consistently, it would skip whole paragraphs, and much much more.

What’s new

- Show tables available for websites and ePubs
- All screens are adjusted to table-top and book postures of flexible devices