VOCALDI
INTERACTIVE READ ALOUD

Give your eyes a rest.
Hear any text on your Mac.

Listen to selected text across your Mac. Highlight text in any app, press one shortcut, and Vocaldi reads it aloud with natural, offline text-to-speech at the speed you choose, privately and without hourly limits.

Reader · vocaldi.com/manifesto
The quiet kind of software

There is a quiet kind of software that asks for very little: no app account, no sign-in, no cloud speech processing. It runs on your machine, listens when you ask, and speaks in a voice you chose.

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54 VOICES · 9 LANGUAGES

Worth listening to.

Every one renders on your Mac. Pick a voice, and it takes over the reader at the top of the page.

AMERICAN ENGLISH · US

Heart

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Three keys, then it talks

One shortcut, start to finish. No window to manage, no app to switch into.

1
Select or copy text
IN ANY APP
Highlight a passage anywhere. If nothing is highlighted, Vocaldi reads whatever you last copied.
2
Press the shortcut
⌃⌥Space
System-wide. You never leave the app you’re reading in.
3
It reads while you work
Carry on: scroll, switch apps, take notes. It keeps reading in the background, in the voice you picked.

Steer it without looking

Skip around or change the pace mid-read, without ever leaving what you were doing.

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Skip forward 15 seconds

Selected text first, clipboard otherwise

Highlighted text comes first. If nothing is highlighted, Vocaldi reads whatever you last copied. Flip the switch and watch which path lights up.

⌃⌥Space
VOCALDI CHECKS
Any text selected?
YES
Reads your selection
highlighted text wins
NO
Reads your clipboard
whatever you last copied

Give your eyes a rest.

Listen to selected or copied text on your Mac, in a voice you picked, without a word leaving the device.

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