Read along
Bring something you want to read out loud. The page follows your voice word by word, then shows you the words you skipped or misread.
Your file and your voice stay on your device. The first session downloads a small speech engine; your browser keeps it for next time. Reading from paper? Take a picture of the page, copy the text from the photo (your phone does this on its own these days), and paste it in the box.
I built this for myself. Most nights I read a physical book, so before I sit down I upload the chapter I want to get through. I read it out loud, the page follows along, and at the end it shows me the words I keep getting wrong.
The posts on this site have a read-along of their own, and it exists for two reasons. Staying focused while reading is genuinely hard these days, and reading out loud keeps me in the text. It also lets me track how often I pronounce one word as another.
The two are built differently. The reader in the posts is simple: your browser turns your voice into text and the page matches it against the words. This page goes further. It downloads a small engine so the page itself can listen to the audio and process the file you bring, without sending either anywhere.
It's a work in progress. I read, I hit something rough, and once a week I come back and fix it. If you like this page and want it to do something it doesn't, email me at [email protected]. Thanks for reading with me.