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Something to look at while you listen.

Paste any text, or attach a book, a PDF, a Word file or a screenshot of a page you cannot select. Explayn reads it out loud and lights up each word as it is spoken, so your eyes always have one small, obvious thing to follow.

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Ten ways to watch

Every one of them is the same reading, the same voice and the same highlight — what changes is what else is on screen. Press one and it starts reading a short sample in that view. Number keys switch between them once it is going.

Screenshots work too: take one, press ⌘V here, and Explayn transcribes the page before it starts reading. Without a key it is read on this machine, which is weaker on old scans.

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