The Reader: Listen to webpages

Your reading list grows faster than the time to get through it. Der Vorleser reads it to you — web pages and PDFs, in German and English, entirely on your iPhone. No account. No narration service. No cloud. THE ARTICLE, NOT THE PAGE Paste an address and the app lifts the actual text out of the page furniture. Navigation, ads, cookie banners, comments and footnote markers stay out. Pages that build their content with JavaScript work too. PDFS, SCANNED ONES INCLUDED Running heads, page numbers and end-of-line hyphenation are cleaned up so playback doesn't stumble at every page break. If the PDF has no text layer, your device's own text recognition takes over. GERMAN AND ENGLISH, MIXED Language is detected per paragraph and per sentence. An English quote in the middle of a German text automatically gets the English voice — and then it carries on in German. LISTEN LIKE A PODCAST Background…