About
About Read to You
Read to You brings print into the audio age. We are a technology service for local, regional, community and independent print newspapers that want to offer audio without building expensive custom audio infrastructure.
At a glance
- Who it is for: local, regional, community and independent print newspapers.
- What it does: turns each printed issue into a QR-linked, professionally narrated audio edition.
- Readers: listen in their phone browser from the printed QR code. No app download.
- Publishers: review articles before publishing, and see reader activity, purchases and revenue.
- Languages: translated audio editions are available as an optional add-on.
What we do
Every printed issue gets a permanent QR code. When the final print PDF is ready, Read to You finds the articles on each page, your team reviews them, and each approved article is narrated. Readers scan the code in the paper and listen to that exact issue.
Print stays first. Your layout, press schedule and edition stay the same; the audio edition extends the life and reach of each issue.
Live today
A permanent QR code for every issue, which you can print before the PDF is final.
PDF-to-article processing that detects articles across columns and pages.
Publisher review: approve, edit or exclude each article before anything is published.
Professional AI narration for every approved article.
A no-app reader experience in the phone browser, with large controls and adjustable speed.
Reader payments: single issues and per-publication subscriptions.
Publisher analytics covering visits, listens, purchases and revenue.
Translated audio editions in English, Spanish, French, German and Russian.
Planned
Not available yet: broader newspaper discovery and distribution, where readers could find newspapers by city, country, language and topic.
This is our future direction, not a live feature today. Publications are not listed in any public catalogue, and nothing is published beyond the issues you choose to make live. The QR code is the entry point. Distribution is the opportunity.
Common questions
Is Read to You a newspaper?
No. We are a technology service. Each newspaper keeps its own name, content and readers.
Can readers browse all newspapers on Read to You?
Not today. Readers reach an issue from its QR code or link. A discovery platform is planned for the future.