Speechify, for Cartesia users.
A free Chrome extension that reads any article aloud with the Cartesia voices you already pay for. Everything you would expect from Speechify or ElevenReader, without a subscription on top.
No account. No SoundUp server. Your key stays on your device.
Essay
The town that keeps time by the tide
By a resident. Nine minutes.
The tide comes in twice a day, and the town keeps time by it. Shops open when the water is high enough to bring the boats in, and close when it leaves.
Boats aground at breakfast are afloat by noon. Nobody here hurries, because hurrying does not move the sea. A visitor learns this on the first afternoon, standing on a slipway that was a road an hour ago.
The clock on the church tower is right twice a day, which the harbourmaster says is more than most clocks manage.
Three steps, then it is just a button.
No account to create and no settings page. The whole setup is one paste.
- 1
Paste your Cartesia key
Once. It stays in Chrome's extension storage on your device.
- 2
Click the icon on an article
A small player appears over the page. Nothing runs anywhere you did not click.
- 3
Press play
The passage being read is tinted, the spoken word is marked. Look away and come back.
Everything a reader should do.
The parts of Speechify you would actually miss, and a few it never had.
Start now, or generate it all
Streaming speaks as soon as you press play. Ahead of time generates the whole article first, then gives you the exact length and a bar you can scrub.
Any voice in your library
Every Cartesia voice you have, including ones you cloned or designed. Change voice and speed from the player.
Save it as audio
Download any article as a WAV. The word timings are stored in the file, so read-along works when you open it again.
Nothing leaves until you press play
No SoundUp server. Page text goes to Cartesia only when you press play, and only from pages where you opened the player.
Measured, never estimated
Every number on the player comes from the audio itself. If a total is not known yet, it is not shown.
What it costs.
SoundUp has no subscription and no account. The speech itself is billed by Cartesia, on whatever plan you already have with them.
- The extension
- Free from the Chrome Web Store. Nothing to subscribe to and nothing to sign up for.
- The speech
- Generated with your Cartesia API key and billed by Cartesia on your plan, which starts with a free tier. See Cartesia’s pricing.
Questions.
The short answers. The long ones are on the privacy page.
Do I need a Cartesia account?
What does it cost?
Which voices can I use?
Is my API key safe?
Does it work on PDFs and paywalled pages?
What does SoundUp collect?
Which browsers?
Your voices. Any article. Free.
Paste a Cartesia key once, then press play on anything you would rather hear than read.