Document listening for iPhone
Listen to PDFs, reports, notes, and long text with built-in iPhone voices, or connect your own Azure or Google Cloud account for natural cloud voices and saved audio.
Built for iPhone. Provider voice costs, quotas, and free tiers stay in the provider account you choose.
Start with built-in iPhone voices when you just want to listen.
Switch to Azure or Google with your own provider account.
Save generated audio for commuting, travel, and repeat listening.
iPhone voice · Azure · Google Cloud
Lirivo is an iPhone reader for turning your own text and documents into audio. Paste text or open a PDF, Markdown, or text file, choose a voice, listen in the app, and save generated audio for offline playback.
Use the voices already available on your iPhone when you want the simplest path.
Connect your own Azure or Google Cloud account when more natural provider voices are worth the setup.
Save generated audio so the listening experience does not depend on a connection.
Listen with built-in iPhone voices without setting up a cloud provider account.
Use your own Azure or Google Cloud account when you want natural provider voices, transparent quotas, or direct account control.
Save generated audio and keep listening when you do not have a network connection.
Why Lirivo is shaped this way
Lirivo focuses on the parts that make document audio useful in daily life: clear import paths, saved audio, reliable playback, local-vs-cloud choice, and honest provider boundaries.
Use built-in iPhone voices when simple local playback is enough. Add your own cloud provider when natural voices, generated audio, or provider-level control matter.
Lirivo does not bundle cloud voice usage into a separate consumer voice plan or resell provider credits.
Use your own provider account, provider free tiers where available, and the same transparent pricing model professionals use.
Document listening often happens while commuting, walking, cooking, or resting your eyes. Streaming-only workflows make that fragile.
Saved audio, playback progress, and a calm audio library are central to the app, not an afterthought after generation.
People listen while walking, driving, commuting, resting their eyes, or doing chores. A reader should behave closer to a podcast or audiobook player than a one-off generator.
Background playback, lock-screen controls, headphone controls, resume position, speed control, and scrubbing are part of the listening experience.
For VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Bluetooth controls, and long listening sessions, small player problems become real blockers.
Lirivo is built with system-friendly controls, VoiceOver awareness, Dynamic Type support, and an explicit feedback loop for improving reading-support workflows.
Long reports, generated research, notes, and PDFs are the first use cases Lirivo is designed to make easier to listen through.
Lirivo focuses public claims on text, Markdown, PDF, and tested document paths instead of pretending every complex layout is solved.
Built-in iPhone voices are the simple path when you want to listen without configuring a cloud voice provider.
Cloud voice mode sends text directly from the app to the provider you choose. Lirivo does not operate an intermediary backend for those requests.
A quick version of the details that matter before you download, connect a provider, or trust the app with your reading workflow.
No. You can start with built-in iPhone voices. Cloud accounts are optional for people who want provider voices and are comfortable managing their own provider setup.
Lirivo focuses on pasted text, plain text files, Markdown, PDFs, and saved audio files.
Offline listening has two paths: you can listen with built-in iPhone voices without a cloud provider, and Lirivo is also built around saving generated audio on your iPhone so you can keep listening without a network connection.
No. Lirivo does not sell bundled cloud voice credits. If you use Azure or Google Cloud voices, provider pricing, quotas, and free tiers are handled by your provider account. Free tiers and pricing can change, so always check the provider's current terms.
Built-in iPhone voice playback can stay on device. Cloud voice mode sends the text needed for speech generation to the provider you choose.
Provider credentials are stored locally using iOS Keychain, Apple's secure storage system for credentials.
Yes. Optional cloud providers can generate audio files that Lirivo saves in your local audio library, so you can keep listening without a reliable network connection.
Lirivo is designed for clear iPhone navigation, system media controls, Dynamic Type, and VoiceOver-aware workflows. Feedback from people who rely on these workflows is especially useful.
Lirivo is moving through TestFlight and App Store preparation with the current focus on release signing, screenshots, privacy wording, and setup guidance.
Azure and Google Cloud setup guides are the next public pages for people who want natural cloud voices with their own provider account.
Lirivo starts on iPhone. If you want to test builds, share feedback, or register interest in Android, use the feedback links to get in touch.