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@Voice reads almost anything with your phone’s voices. Lyraboo turns your books into full-cast audiobooks — natural AI voices, and every character sounds like themselves.
Written by the Lyraboo team. Facts about @Voice Aloud Reader come from its Google Play listing and website, checked in October 2026.
@Voice Aloud Reader is a mature Android reader: EPUB, AZW3, PDF, Word, HTML, plain text and web articles, with LCP-protected books from ebooks.com and OCR-aware reading for scans. It uses the free text-to-speech voices on your phone, or premium cloud voices from Google, Microsoft or Amazon with your own API key. It records what it reads as MP3, OGG or WAV, has a sleep timer and Android Auto support, and costs nothing — a one-time $15 licence removes the ads. For articles, study notes and anything you want saved as audio, it is hard to beat.
| Lyraboo | @Voice Aloud Reader | |
|---|---|---|
| Voices | Cloud AI voices, included | Phone TTS; cloud voices with your API key |
| Character voices | Automatic — each line attributed to its speaker | Alternating voices from quote styles, set up by you |
| Files | EPUB, PDF, TXT | EPUB, AZW3, PDF, Word, HTML, TXT, web |
| Player | Audiobook player, lyrics-style read-along | Reader with word highlighting |
| Save as MP3 | No | Yes — MP3, OGG, WAV |
| Offline | No | With phone voices |
| Price | 1 hour a month free, then a plan | Free with ads; $15 once |
Choose @Voice for a free all-round reader, MP3 recordings, web articles and documents. Choose Lyraboo when the book is a story and you want to hear it as a full-cast audiobook. Many people keep both. If you use another ebook reader’s read-aloud, see Moon+ Reader, ReadEra and Librera; for every option side by side, the best EPUB to audiobook apps for Android.
@Voice Aloud Reader is a trademark of its owner. Lyraboo is an independent app and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Hyperionics. This comparison reflects publicly available product information.
The things people notice in the first chapter — and the reasons they stay.
Lyraboo’s AI finds every character in the book and casts a distinct voice for each — automatically, for every book. You always know who is speaking, and dialogue sounds like a real conversation instead of one narrator doing all the parts. Most reading and text-to-speech apps use one voice for everything.
Under the player, the book scrolls with the voice the way song lyrics do in Spotify: words light up as they are spoken, each line shows who says it, and tapping any word jumps there.
Chapters, speed from 0.25× to 3×, background playback with lock-screen controls, and it picks up exactly where you stopped.
Pick an EPUB, PDF or TXT and there is nothing to set up: the first chapter is ready in about one to two minutes, and the rest generate while you listen.
Novels, fanfiction and web-serial exports, indie ebooks, study PDFs — plus over 1,000 English classics already in the app.
One free hour of listening every month, no card needed. Hours are spent once per chapter — replaying is always free.
For listening to novels with natural AI voices and a different voice for every character, with nothing to configure, Lyraboo is built for that. @Voice is the better choice if you want a free reader that works with your phone’s voices, records MP3 files, reads web articles and Word files, or opens LCP-protected books.
Yes, in its own way: its dialog wizard analyses quote styles and sets up alternating voices for narration and dialogue, and you can save voice groups and tune each voice. Lyraboo works out which character says each line and keeps a distinct AI voice for each character through the whole book, automatically.
No. The AI voices are included. @Voice uses the phone’s text-to-speech voices for free, and its premium cloud voices need your own Google Cloud, Microsoft or Amazon API key, billed by them.
@Voice is free with ads, and a one-time $15 licence removes them. Lyraboo is free for one hour of listening a month, then a subscription — the AI voices cost money to generate.
Upload a book you own and let the app turn it into a multi-voice audiobook automatically.