Your ear catches what the eye slides over
Reading your text aloud is one of the oldest editing techniques. Vellam reads the chapter back to you in a real narrator's voice, so you hear what silent reading lets slip.
First chapter free · No subscription · Your text remains yours
Carl Spitzweg, The Poor Poet, 1839 Dusk settled over the rooftops, and still she stood by the window, counting the footsteps on the stairs.
What the ear hears
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Rhythm and long sentences
You hear where a sentence stumbles and where it runs on with no end in sight.
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Dialogue that sounds like real speech
The ear knows at once whether a character talks like a person or like a memo.
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Repetitions and gaps
The same word twice, a dropped word, a typo the eye jumps over.
How it works
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Select a passage or the whole chapter and hear it read in your book's language.
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Adjust the reading speed to your own pace.
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Choose a male or female voice.
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Real, professional narrator voices in the paid version, or free with the browser voice.
You pay for what you listen to
No subscription. Start with the free browser voice and reach for a real, professional narrator when you want one.
Hear your chapter
Open a chapter and hear how it really sounds. No subscription.
First chapter free · No subscription · Your text remains yours
Józef Chełmoński, Indian Summer, 1875