An iOS app that lives in your share sheet. You find an article you want to read but don't have time to sit down with it -- tap "Send to Spoken," pick a voice, and it shows up in your audio queue ready to listen on a walk, commute, or while cooking. Your personal article narrator.
How It Works
- Tap the share button on any article in Safari, Chrome, or any app -- "Send to Spoken" appears in your share sheet
- Smart content extraction strips ads, navigation, and junk to pull just the article text
- Choose from a library of natural-sounding voices -- pick the one you like and make it your default
- Article lands in your queue, ready to play like a podcast episode
Core Features
- iOS Share Extension -- the entire entry point is the native share button, zero friction
- Voice picker -- multiple high-quality voices to choose from, set a default or pick per article
- Audio queue -- your saved articles become a playlist, reorder and manage like a podcast app
- Background playback with lock screen controls, AirPlay, CarPlay support
- Speed adjustment (0.5x to 3x) with pitch correction
- Article library -- everything you've ever sent lives in the app, searchable and organized
- Offline support -- articles are processed and cached so you can listen without signal
Why This Needs to Exist
- There are hundreds of articles worth reading but not enough time to sit and read them all
- Podcasts proved people love learning through audio -- articles deserve the same treatment
- TTS quality has gotten genuinely good (ElevenLabs, OpenAI TTS) -- listening is actually pleasant now
- Read-it-later apps solved saving articles but not consuming them -- your Pocket queue just grows
Prior Art & The Gap
- Pocket has TTS but it's buried in the UI and the voices are mediocre
- Safari Reader + Speak Selection works but has no queue, no voice choice, no playback controls
- Audm / Curio use human narrators but only cover select publications
- Nobody has nailed the simple flow: see article, tap share, listen later -- for any article on the web