Any book, read aloud
Tap one button and Lexory reads your book aloud from the sentence on screen, chapter after chapter, highlighting the sentence it's on. It works offline with the voices on your device, and it can turn a chapter or the whole book into a real audiobook file with chapters.
One tap, from where you are
The Read Aloud button sits in the reader’s toolbar. Lexory starts at the top of the visible page and keeps going to the end of the book — pages turn by themselves, and the current sentence is highlighted so you can follow with your eyes or look away. Speed is adjustable; pause and resume from the same button, the Lock Screen or your headphones.
Voices: on the device first
Lexory uses the iOS voices already on your iPhone or iPad — including the enhanced and premium voices you add in iOS Settings ▸ Accessibility ▸ Spoken Content ▸ Voices — so nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is needed online. Neural voices that you download once and keep offline are available too — for English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian and Russian. “Match Book Language” picks a voice in the language of the book.
Cloud voices — only if you ask
If you want a different voice, Lexory can use OpenAI or Yandex SpeechKit with your own key. The app asks for your consent before the first sentence leaves the device, shows which service you’re using, and lets you withdraw consent in More ▸ Privacy — after that, speech goes back to the device.
Make it an audiobook
From the Speech sheet choose Create Audiobook: the book’s chapters become audiobook chapters and the result is an M4B file; or Create Chapter Audio File for just this chapter. Pick the engine and voice, watch the progress by chapter and sentence, and the new audiobook appears in the Audio tab — with the same player, sleep timer and CarPlay as any other. The files are also in Files ▸ On My iPhone ▸ Lexory ▸ Audiobooks, and you can share them.
In the background and in the car
Read-aloud continues when the screen is locked or you switch apps, with controls on the Lock Screen and from headphones. Audiobooks — including the ones you created from books — play in CarPlay with a list, chapters and Now Playing.
Good to know
- Neural voices are downloaded once per voice (about 64 MB each) and then work offline; the voice follows the book’s language.
- OpenAI and Yandex bill you directly for what you use.
- Creating an audiobook takes about as long as the voice needs to read it; the progress shows chapter and sentence, and you can stop any time and keep what’s done.
- In page-turning modes the page flips instantly during read-aloud, without animation; if you turn forward yourself, the next sentence brings the page back to the voice.
- Cloud voices need a network connection; export with a cloud engine stops when the connection drops.
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