Talk to Jevie

Read aloud

Listen instead of reading: any web page, selection, clipboard or file read aloud on your Mac, the sentence being said lit on the page.

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Choose an example to copy it, then try it in Jevie.

Use itHow it worksLimitsWhere it's kept

Use it

• read this page to meread it aloudThe article in front, followed on the page as it is read
• read from hereFrom the sentence you selected, or the first one on screen
• read what I selected aloudOnly the selected text, in any app
• read the clipboard to meWhat you last copied
• can you read this pdf aloudThe file in focus: PDF, Word or text
• pause readingkeep readingstop readingControl the reading; pause alone works too

How it works

Jevie reads the main part of the page, leaving out menus, buttons and sidebars, and lights each sentence as it is said, scrolling to keep it in view. ⌥-click a sentence to read from there, Esc to stop; the page is left exactly as it was.

It is read in Jev's own voice when it is installed, else the Mac's voice, with no gaps between sentences.

Limits

• One reading at a time; a new one stops the last.
• Only pages are lit; selections, the clipboard and files are just read.
• Jev's voice speaks English only; other languages use the Mac's voice.

Where it's kept

Everything runs on this Mac.

In Jevie, help read aloud answers from this page as you type.

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Updated 23 October 2026 · Something wrong or missing? Tell us