Why Aureley exists, and who makes it.

AI writes it. Aureley reads it.

Aureley is a text-to-speech app for iPhone, iPad and Android that reads your documents aloud. It is made by Sol Media, a small studio in Melbourne, Australia.

AI now writes documents faster than any person can read them. Reports pile up, research stacks deeper, and reading quietly turned into a backlog. Aureley began as a simple wish: press play on anything and have it read to you properly, warmly and clearly, all the way to the end.

Most reading apps stop somewhere. At a page limit, at a paywall, at the moment your free minutes run out. We built Aureley around the opposite promise. You will not be cut off in the middle of a document.

The voice came before everything else. Not a robotic drone or a hyped-up announcer, but a warm, natural voice you could listen to with your eyes closed at the end of a long day. Then came the small robot with the orange headphones, so the voice would have a face. She has been waving at people ever since.

What Aureley does

Aureley reads PDFs, Word files, EPUB, RTF, Markdown, plain text, web links and pasted text aloud, and highlights each word as it is read. The only thing you'll hear is the document. Not the page numbers, headers or footers.

Your built-in voice, the voice already built into your phone or tablet, reads everything on every plan, with no cap. Choose a studio-quality natural voice whenever you want one. Documents in French, Italian, Spanish, German and Portuguese (Brazil) are read in their own language.

Hear every voice

Aureley app reading a PDF aloud with the current word highlighted — A PDF read aloud, word by word

Aureley, the small robot with orange headphones, waving hello

Who makes Aureley · a small studio in Melbourne

The face of the voice.

Aureley greets you, reads with you, and troubleshoots with you when a page goes missing. She is warm, patient and never in a hurry to sell you anything.

Hear Aureley speak

What we care about

Being clear about money. The price, the date and the way out, before you have to ask.
Never stopping you in the middle of a document.
Fewer features, that work properly.
Your documents stay yours. Nothing you import is used to train anything, or sold on for profit.
We read and answer every email ourselves.
Less about the hype of celebrity voices, more about quality voices you can enjoy listening to all the time.

There's one thing we set out never to do. We call it the wall: the moment a tool you pay for stops serving you and starts selling to you. Every decision gets the same test. Does this build a wall? If it does, it doesn't ship.

A note from the founder

"As a person who lives with the lasting vision impairment caused by optic neuritis, I didn't need gimmicks or features I would never use. So after finding myself drowning in documents to read to keep up with my work, and after trying apps that smothered me in charges and emails I didn't need, I decided to build Aureley, and to keep her simple and honest."

Mel Murat, founder, Sol Media

The studio

Made by Sol Media.

Aureley is built by Sol Media, a small studio in Melbourne, Australia. Small enough that the people who build Aureley answer the support email, and stubborn enough to believe software can be honest and still pay for itself.

Write to mail@solmedia.com.au. We read every email and reply within two working days.

Sol Media · ABN 46 930 759 486 · solmedia.com.au

Suite 1208/530 Little Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

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