New AI summaries and easy-read versions of every page
RetroAudio adds a Listen button to your site with natural voices and word-by-word highlighting. Visitors can also translate, look up words, switch to a clean reader view, or hear a summary. One line of code. No recording.
Try it · press Listen
Plenty of people find long text hard going, because of dyslexia, low vision, a second language, or simply a busy day. When a page can speak, they stay.
As each word is read, it lights up, so readers can follow along. Select any sentence to hear just that part, translate it, or look up a word.
Tip: open the ⋯ menu in the player for reader view, a summary, translation, the reading mask and MP3 download.
Everything in one button
Everything visitors need to take in your content their way, without leaving the page.
Studio-quality voices in English and Spanish, standard voices in French, Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and online voices in 50 languages including Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, German and Russian. Words and sentences light up as they're read, and the page scrolls along.
A clean, distraction-free version of the page with larger text, an easy-to-read font, wider spacing, and sepia, dark or high-contrast colors.
Translate a selection or the whole page into 50+ languages, then hear it in that language.
An AI summary of the key points, or a plain-language version of the page for people with reading difficulties.
Select a word for a simple definition in context, with its pronunciation.
PDFs and Word files linked on your site get a listen icon and open in the reader, with highlighting.
Dims the page except the lines being read, to help focus.
Listeners can take any page with them as an audio file.
Every control works from the keyboard and with screen readers. Click a paragraph to read from there.
For your team
The Listen button is just the start. Everyone on your team gets tools to make and manage audio.
How it works
Sign up, type your address, and pick a voice. Press play to hear each one.
Add the script tag to your site, or install our WordPress plugin. The button finds your article by itself.
Audio is made the first time a page is played, then cached, so every later listener hears it for free.
<script src="https://audio.theretrochat.com/r.js" data-site="YOUR_KEY" defer></script>Why RetroAudio
Traditional read-aloud vendors make you request a quote, wait for a trial, and pay by page view. We don't.
Pricing
Credits are used only when new audio is made: one per character with standard voices, three with premium voices. Every later listener of the same page uses none.
$19/month
$15/month billed yearly
Most popular
$59/month
$49/month billed yearly
$179/month
$149/month billed yearly
Custom
For large volumes
Questions
No. The script is small, loads after your page, and only fetches audio when someone presses Listen.
Premium voices in English (American, British, Australian, Irish and more accents) and Spanish; standard voices in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Online voices read 50 languages, including Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, German, Russian and Turkish. The few others use the visitor's own device voice. Translation covers 50+ languages.
It helps many people read your content: people with dyslexia, low vision, or a second language. It works with the keyboard and screen readers and doesn't change your page. It's not an "accessibility overlay" and doesn't fix your site's own code; good, accessible HTML is still needed.
Pages that were already played keep working (they're cached). For new audio, the button switches to device voices until the next month, so it never stops working. You can upgrade any time.
RetroAudio finds the main article by itself and skips menus, sidebars and footers. You can also name the part to read, or mark parts to skip.
Yes. Install it, paste your site key, and the button appears on your posts and pages.
We don't use cookies on your visitors or track them. Text is sent to us only to make audio, translations or summaries, and isn't used to train AI models.