Elseleaf

Elseleaf brings a new way to experience online journalism, combining clear, focused reading with audio powered by your device. Read at your own pace, save passages that matter, or listen while you get on with your day. At its heart are the words. Elseleaf presents articles in manageable sections, preserving the short paragraphs and structure that make journalism easy to follow. Recipes show ingredients and steps. Reviews show ratings and pros and cons. Save a passage to revisit later, follow links to explore further, or open the original story on the publisher’s website. When you want to listen, Elseleaf reads aloud using a voice that runs locally on your device. Speech is generated on your device, with no cloud processing required. It also works alongside your music, so you can hear the stories you care about over the soundtrack you choose. Publishers keep publishing on their own websites. Elseleaf offers another way for readers to engage with that work, through text, audio, or a little of both. You can even see visual stories such as photojournalism or artist galleries with their words underneath. Elseleaf Programmes bring individual stories together into something you can listen to as an episode. Using the Elseleaf publisher plugin, publications can compile their journalism into curated collections. Your device then reads those stories aloud, turning published articles into an episodic listening experience without requiring a separately recorded podcast. It’s a new way to connect with a publication’s reporting—and to make journalism part of your everyday listening. And it's totally free.