Web novels and serials
Send a chapter from Chrome or Edge in one click. Menus, ads and comments stay out.
system messages get their own chimeMade for reading. All kinds of it.
The chapter you’re hooked on, the long article you saved for later, the scene you wrote last night. Hummle reads them all, and knows the difference.
Articles and blogs
Long reads, newsletters, guides. Headlines get a pause; links and footnotes stay quiet.
Your own writing
Paste a draft into the Studio and hear how it flows.
change one line, redo one line
Read selectionJust the bit you select
Highlight a few lines on any page and Hummle reads only those.
Whole books, chapter by chapter
Add chapters as you go, keep your place, and save the lot as an audiobook. Coming later
Same words. Different scene.
Most read-aloud tools say every line the same way. Hummle reads what’s happening around a line and performs it to match. You never type stage directions.
Three years after the war, the door finally opened and there he was, thinner, smiling.
“You’re here.”
soft and slow, a catch of breath first
The lights died. When they came back on, the stranger was already standing in her kitchen.
“You’re here.”
low and clipped, after a pause that’s too long
It knows what it’s reading.
Books, articles and web novels each have their own habits. Hummle handles them the way a good narrator would, and you can change any of it.
Lin raised the lantern. The light caught on something in the trees.
♪ [ Skill acquired: Lantern Sense ]
a chime, then a calm system voice
So that’s what it wanted, she thought.
thoughts sound closer and softer
“RUN,” Theo said. “Now.”
urgent, not screaming
A/N: Thanks for reading! Support me on…
author’s notes: skip or read, your call
The night train is back
headline, then a short pause
On 3 May, the sleeper carried 1,204 passengers north.
“the third of May”, “one thousand two hundred and four”
Dr. Ellis, who lives on St. Mary’s Street, booked a cabin.
Doctor, Saint, Street: read by context
Check the timetable[2] before you go.
links and footnotes stay quiet
Sade closed the shop at nine.
set a name once (shah-DAY), used everywhere
She had read the note twice before the lead pipe hit the glass.
read or read? lead or lead? worked out from the sentence
BOOM.
the word, plus a real sound under it
* * *
scene break: a breath of silence
Ten readers to start. Many more on the way.
Every voice is original, and keeps who they are while the story changes how they speak. New voices join as each one passes our listening tests.
- MaraNorth American English
- EliasNorth American English
- JuneCanadian English
- TheoNorth American English
- NadiaSouthern British English
- IdrisNigerian English
- ClaraBritish English
- ArthurBritish English
- SadeNigerian English
- LucaNorth American English
- Many moreOn the way
Meet the voices
portraits show each voice’s character, made with AI
The little things that make listening easy.
Hummle is being built to do a handful of things extremely well. Here are a few of them.
Follow every word
The sentence being read lights up. Click any line to jump there, and scroll freely; Hummle waits for you.
- Speed from 0.75× to 2×, without chipmunk voices
- A sleep timer for bedtime chapters
- Remembers where you stopped, in everything you read
The road narrowed as the lanterns thinned. Theo slowed. “Do you hear that?” he whispered. Mara didn’t answer.
Sound that belongs to the story
Laughs, sighs and gasps happen in the voice itself. Doors, thunder and system chimes land on the words they belong to. You never write a single tag.
- Its own mixer, so you set the balance
- Switch any layer off, for one book or all of them
- Quiet ambience under a whole scene Later
Fix a line in two clicks
If a line comes out wrong, click it and say what you want. Hummle redoes only that line, and remembers your fix for the rest of the book.
- Expression: Subtle, Natural or Dramatic
- Keep your favourite take; approved takes are protected
- Teach it how to say a name, once
She folded the letter. “Well,” she said, “that’s that, then.”
Every word, checked
Before a line reaches you, Hummle listens to its own recording and compares it with the page. Skipped or invented words are caught and redone.
- Checks the voice still sounds like itself
- Marks anything it isn’t sure about, so you can choose
At last, she heard his key in the door.All words checked
He paused on the step, then knocked twice.Redone, now checked
“It’s me,” he said.All words checked
Keep it for later
Save a chapter as audio for a walk, a drive or a long queue.
- High-quality WAV and FLAC files
- Phone-friendly audiobooks with chapter marks Later
- Your library lives in a folder you choose
- Chapter 12, The Lantern Road.flac14:08
- Kitchen scene, draft 3.wav2:31
- The Lantern Road (book).m4bLater
What you read stays on your computer.
Hummle does all its work on your own PC. There’s no account to make, nothing is uploaded, and nobody sees what you read.
- No accountNothing to sign up for. Ever.
- No cloudYour text and audio are never sent to an online service.
- No trackingNo analytics, no ads, no automatic crash reports.
- Works offlineOnce the voices are set up, the internet is optional.
Your PC
Your library
The voices
The checks
Nothing travels from your PC to the internet:
Only used to download voices once, and for web pages you open yourself.
Hummle is still learning its lines.
It’s in private development, and it won’t ship until every voice sounds right. When it’s ready, you’ll find it here.
