How Readvox Text-to-Speech Frees Up Time and Saves Your Eyes

At the beginning of 2024, I found myself going to bed with my eyes burning and my head throbbing after spending hours trying to catch up on the latest AI revolution articles, research papers, and technical documentation. I felt overwhelmed and knew I needed a change to maintain both my productivity and sanity. The endless screen time was killing me – eye strain, back pain, and frequent migraines were just part of my days.

I figured there had to be a better way, but all the text-to-speech options I found were either awful or overpriced. So, I made my own. It was a bit rough at first, but I didn't need a polished app for my problem; I just needed a solution, any solution.

After using it for a few months, I realized that there are plenty of people facing similar struggles, and if Readvox could save me, it could probably help others too.

I polished it up a bit and posted it on the Chrome Browser Web Store. The next few months were a rollercoaster. You can read about it here: The Birth of Readvox: Transforming How We Consume Content

Later, I made a short video to describe what my mission was with Readvox:

When you are reading, studying, or working, do you do it from a screen? So much that your eyes get tired? Your back and head hurt? Let's try it the other way. Let Readvox read your texts. Just open the page and click play. Or select the portion of text and start listening. Do what you love while listening to your texts.

I also saw how people with ADHD and vision problems started responding to my extension development.

Feedback from Reddit:

I found your comment looking for good TTS because I have ADHD and struggle horribly to read, especially for the classes I'm taking. I just wanted to say thank you so much for making such a great high-quality extension that doesn't have a paywall. Accessibility aids should always be this way, and what you're doing is so huge and important. Thank you so much for what you do! - Porkybunz

Feedback on Product Hunt:

So helpful for my father whose eyes aren’t what they used to be. - Larry Hartman

I kept getting questions from my friends on what I was working on, and after a couple dozen explanations, I just wrote a text and played it with Readvox. How else should I have shown the functionality? :-)

Finally, I’m having my daily time listening to text with my eyes closed. Finally getting much-needed daily rest. And all of this without compromising my reading scope, but actually even increasing it.

Give it a try and drop me a note at the bottom of the page if Readvox is helping you.