Text, read aloud, instantly

Paste it.
Press play.
Listen.

Verba reads your notes, articles and documents out loud in a natural voice — highlighting each word as it goes. Free to start, £4.99 a month when you want the whole thing.

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How it works

Three steps, about four seconds.

01

Paste it

Lecture notes, a contract, a wall-of-text email, a chapter you never finished. Anything written works.

02

Press play

A natural voice reads it back while every word lights up in time, so your eyes can follow or wander.

03

Keep moving

Slow it down, speed it up, skip a sentence, save it to your library and finish it on the walk home.

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Students

Revise with your ears

Hear your own notes back the night before an exam — the fastest way to catch what you have not actually learned.

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Commuters

Clear the reading pile

Paste the articles and briefs you keep saving for later, then listen to them on the way in.

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Everyone else

Proof it out loud

Hearing your own writing is the quickest way to catch the clumsy sentence you have read past ten times.

What you get

A proper listening room for written things.

Word-by-word highlighting

Every spoken word is highlighted live. Click any word to jump straight there.

Speed and pitch that stick

From a careful 0.5× to a brisk 2×. Your voice and settings are remembered next time.

Every voice on your device

British, American, Spanish, French and more — Verba lists everything your system can speak.

A library, not a clipboard

Save what you paste, see word counts and listening time, pick up where you left off.

AI that prepares the text

Summarise a long report, simplify dense writing, or fix punctuation so the voice breathes properly.

Nothing to install

It runs in the browser. No app, no downloads, no plugins — open a tab and listen.

Pricing

Free forever. Or everything, for £4.99.

Free

Everything you need for short pieces.

£0

  • Read up to 1,200 characters at a time
  • Every voice installed on your device
  • Word-by-word live highlighting
  • Speed & pitch controls
  • Save up to 10 notes in your library
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Verba Pro

For everything longer than 1,200 characters.

£4.99/month

  • Read up to 100,000 characters — whole articles, chapters, reports
  • Unlimited saved notes in your library
  • AI tools: summarise, simplify, bullet points & listen-ready rewrite
  • Extreme speed range: 0.025x to 5x
  • Sentence skip, resume where you stopped, sleep timer
  • Priority support and new voices first
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