Evernote Clearly Now Reads Pages To You With Text-to-Speech

Product updates | 27 Nov 201227 Nov 12 | By Andrew Sinkov

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Evernote Clearly makes reading articles and blog posts online a beautiful, distraction-free experience. One click of this browser extension removes all ads and navigation, leaving you with a simple, easy-to-read page. Today, Clearly learns a fantastic new Premium trick: reading the article to you.

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New Premium Feature: Text-to-Speech

Oftentimes, great web articles and blog posts come to you when you don’t have time to actually sit down and read them. You may be working on something else or walking around your kitchen cooking. Now, you can keep doing what you’re doing and absorb the article at the same time. Open the link, click Clearly, then click the new Text-to-Speech icon. Moments later, Clearly will start reading the article aloud to you. It’s like instantly turning articles into podcasts. Become an Evernote Premium subscriber to try it out.

Additionally, we’ve built live text highlighting into Clearly, which shows you the words as they’re read. Click on the handy controls in the sidebar if you want to pause, skip ahead or jump to the previous sentence.

Speaks your language
This new feature supports over a dozen different languages. When you combine that with the text highlighting, you get a great language learning tool. Visit a site in another language, then have Clearly read it to you as you follow along with the highlighting.

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Powered by iSpeech

We’re working with the leading text-to-speech provider, iSpeech, to bring you this functionality. It’s the best we’ve ever heard and we hope you like it. Try it on this post.

Text-to-speech is only available in the Google Chrome version of Clearly, but will be coming to other browsers soon.

Learn more about how to use Evernote Clearly by reading our Evernote Clearly Getting Started Guide.

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Deborah

Hey, this is really awesome! Of course she didn’t pronounce live and read with long vowels, she pronounced them with short vowels, because only context lets you know how they should be pronounced. I thought the intonation for the most part was really good!

Ideally, if this could one day work on a portable device, that would be the best, for two reasons. 1) If you’re working around the kitchen (or wherever) you can have your smartphone and earpiece on you while you listen; and 2) reading on a small screen is more difficult, therefore being read to is more appealing.

An unexpected pleasant surprise!
Deborah

Cool! I just tried it on a Mexican website – it was obviously done by a native speaker of Spanish. Very cool! She had an accent from Spain, not Mexico, but that would definitely be nitpicking! I went to a .uk site to see if she would have a British accent, but she didn’t. It was the same as the American one. Works for me! I’m going to visit more international sites. How fun!
- Jakob Bignert
  
  Thanks Deborah, we are considering adding support for different accents, like British English for example.
philippe99

Awesome. Plz add a way to slow down the speed of speeching and Clearly would be come a language teaching aid in classrooms !
- Jakob Bignert
  
  This is already available on the options page. Right click the Clearly toolbar icon and choose ‘Options’ then find the Text To Speech tab on the left.
Panayiotis

I have 2 suggestions: 1. text-to-speech feature in evernote website and windows/mac programs, so we could have text-to-speech for our notes and web clippings, 2. save text-to-speech as audio file along web clippings so we can listen to them on iPhone/android.

And a question: what languages are supported?
http://www.mirsa.com.tr Havalandırma

Thanks for information. Wonderful!
http://softwarefeedback.blogspot.com Mark Zaun

I think you just won a new Evernote user.
You are the first TTS service which integrates into the web browser and highlights the currently read word. Studies have shown that reading and listening to an article at the same time is the most efficient and fastest way to read and take in the read content.

You are also the first service which autodetects the language.

I really dislike that Read-it-later services like Instagram and Pocket have failed to provide a convenient way to play back your saved articles on a computer and mobile phone.

Must haves:
– the ability to quickly change playback speed
– a comprehensive and open database of wrong pronounced words (mostly foreign words and company names) and their correct pronounciation. People need to be able to add entries. Otherwise reading a technology blog becomes a little painful.
– playlists (with skipable articles)
– a play/pause keyboard shortcut
– maybe an optional button that follows your mouse cursor to read a certain paragraph.

It would also be nice to have a TTS button in my notes.

Thank you for making it easier for business people or busy people to stay up-to-date with following blogs and news articles.
http://www.inearheadphonesreviewed.com/ Zachary

I love this new feature, I rely on evernote to help me get all the important tasks in my life done, and this is just a great bonus!
konya düğün salonu

thank you. great sharing

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