Drop a pin anywhere in your text with the button on the playback bar — it marks your cursor, or your exact spot in the speech if you're mid-read. Jump back, rename, or start playback from any bookmark below.
Drag & drop, or click to browse (.txt, .md, .pdf, .docx)
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AuraRead Feature Guide
Everything this app can do, in one place. Tip: the "Tools" button opens My Documents, Compare Voices, Display Settings, and Bookmarks — each opens as a panel with its own ✕ close button, no need to reopen the menu to dismiss it.
Getting text in
Type, paste, or drag & drop
Drop a .txt, .md, .pdf, or .docx file onto the drop zone, or click it to browse. Text extraction works even for compressed/complex PDFs.
Import from URL
Paste an article link to pull in its readable text. Some sites block automated fetching — those will show an error rather than garbled HTML.
Scrub Text
Strips markdown syntax, links, footnote markers, and citations (including multi-author forms like "(Smith & Jones, 2021; Kim et al., 2019)") — plus PDF/ebook artifacts like line-wrap hyphenation, standalone page numbers, repeated running headers/footers, and stray HTML entities — while preserving paragraph breaks.
Playback
Speak / Pause / Resume / Reset
Standard playback controls. Pause truly pauses (tracked by word position) rather than relying on the browser's native pause, which is unreliable on some systems.
Double-click a sentence
Jumps playback to start reading from that sentence instead of the beginning.
Word or sentence highlighting
Toggle in Display Settings — follow along word-by-word, or highlight the whole current sentence.
Resume banner
If you close the tab mid-document, reopening it offers to resume from where you left off.
Bookmarks
Drop a bookmark
Tap the bookmark icon on the playback bar anytime — while reading, paused, or just with your cursor somewhere in the text. It marks that exact spot and gives it an automatic label from the surrounding words.
Bookmarks panel
Open it from the Tools menu to see every bookmark in the current document. Click one to jump your cursor there, hit ▶ to start reading from it immediately, or rename/delete it.
Bookmark rail
Small dots along the right edge of the text box show where your bookmarks sit in the document — hover for the label, click to jump straight there.
Voices
Favorites & grouped list
Star your favorite voices to pin them to the top. The rest are grouped by language (English and Spanish first, then alphabetically by language).
Compare Voices panel
Preview two voices individually, or play the same sample in both back-to-back to compare them directly.
Rate & pitch
Adjustable independently of voice choice, and remembered between visits.
Organizing your work
My Documents
Save the current text under a title, then reload, rename, or delete it later — handy for keeping a small library of articles.
Display Settings
Adjust text size and line spacing for easier reading, independent of playback settings.