Pick a page. Springle reads it to you.
Ask Springle to read an article, a note, an email or a document aloud, word for word, in its own voice. Pause or stop it any time.
Read to Me reads a page aloud for you, from the top, exactly as it’s written. Ask while the page is in front of you, by talking, typing or holding ⌃ control ⌥ option, in any language. It reads even when Read aloud is off: that setting is only for Springle’s own replies.
Read this to me
Read me this article
Read out the email from Sam
Read this bit to me
From the right-click menu
- In any app: select the words, right-click, then choose Services › Read to Me with Springle.
- In Chrome with Springle for Chrome: right-click the page, or words you’ve selected, then choose Springle › Read this to me. With nothing selected, Springle reads the article on the page.
What it can read
- Web pages and articles in your browser. With Springle for Chrome added (Settings › Connected apps › Your browser), Springle reads just the article, without menus, adverts and footers.
- Notes, emails and documents in the window in front: Notes, Mail, Pages, Word, TextEdit.
- Only what you’ve selected: highlight a paragraph first, then ask Read this to me. Whenever words are selected, Springle reads just those.
Springle never reads a page by itself. It reads only when you ask.
A note in the island says how long it takes and how many credits it uses, and esc stops it.
While it reads
A bar in the island shows what’s being read and how long it takes.
- Click the speed (1×) to go faster or slower: 1.2×, 1.5×, then 0.85×. Springle remembers it, and replies read aloud use it too.
- Click pause to stop for a moment, and play to carry on where it stopped.
- Click stop, or press esc, to end it.
- Typing a new message also stops it.
Stopped part way? Ask again, or say Keep reading, and Springle carries on where it stopped. Click Start over on the note that appears to go back to the top.
Long pages
If a page would take more than about 20 minutes, Springle tells you how long it is first and asks what you’d like: the whole thing, a short summary, or just a part. It asks first too when it can only find every word in the window, menus and all (a web page without Springle for Chrome, or an app with no document in it). Click Read it all, or select the part you want and ask again.
What it uses
Pages read to you use credits: about one credit for every minute and a half of reading (1,250 characters). A 1,500-word article is about 7 credits. Springle tells you the length before a long page, and Settings › Plan shows how many credits went on reading.
Reading Springle’s own replies aloud doesn’t use credits. See Credits, running low or out.
If your credits run out part-way through a page, the reading carries on in your Mac’s own voice.
The page’s words go from your Mac straight to Springle’s voice, and Springle doesn’t keep them. No AI model reads or rewrites them, so what you hear is what’s on the page.
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