Readotte: facts and prices

Readotte reads your PDFs, articles and text aloud, in French and English, in the browser. Here is what it does, what it costs and what it doesn't do, according to the service's code.

The Minibon team · Updated on 29 October 2026 · Translation to review

What the tool does

• Reads PDFs that contain text (25 MB max), rebuilding headings, lists and paragraphs.
• Leaves out repeated headers and footers, page numbers, small-print notes and citation marks such as [12].
• Reads an article from its link, without menus, ads or comments.
• Reads pasted text, up to 400,000 characters per document.
• 10 voices: Caro, Michael, Estelle, Léa and Hugo in French; Alba, Peter, Eve, Heart and George in English.
• Highlights the sentence and the word being spoken; speed from 0.75× to 3× without changing the pitch.
• Pitch, warmth, clarity and expressiveness settings; picks up at the sentence where you stopped.
• Everything runs in the browser, on a computer or a phone: nothing to install.
• The document's language (French or English) is detected automatically and can be changed in one click.
• Speeds: 0.75×, 1×, 1.25×, 1.5×, 1.75×, 2×, 2.5× and 3×. On a keyboard, Space pauses and the arrows go to the previous or next sentence.
• Voice settings: pitch from −4 to +4 semitones, warmth and clarity from −6 to +6 dB, expressiveness for the Pocket TTS voices.
• MP3 (Readotte Plus): the file is put together in your browser from the spoken sentences, with the voice and settings you chose; it is not stored on our servers.
• Without an account, a guest session keeps your documents; when you create an account, they move to it and follow you to your other devices.

Exact prices

Limits

• No scanned PDFs (no text recognition), no Word or EPUB files.
• French and English only.
• The MP3 is for personal use only: no publishing, broadcasting or resale.
• No mobile app or browser extension.
• Plus is a subscription with no commitment, stopped in one click; refund on request within 14 days of a payment.
• Free plan: beyond 8,000 characters listened to in a day, reading stops until the next day. Plus: beyond 1,000,000 characters in a month (about 20 hours), reading is paused until the end of the calendar month.
• Links: public pages only, 5 MB at most; an article for subscribers only or behind a login is not read.
• The highlighted word is estimated from its position in the sentence: it is not aligned word by word with the audio.
• You need a connection while listening in the browser; offline, use the MP3.

Languages

Reading in French and English; interface in French and English.