Butter Reader - Turn your blog posts into engaging audio
Add AI-powered audio players to any website in minutes. Your readers can listen to your content while multitasking, making your blog more accessible and engaging than ever before.
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Agnes AI
Love that you can just drop AI audio on your blog—so smart for folks (like me lol) who always wanna listen on the go. Realy cool idea, team!
I absolutely love this audio really makes blogs so much more accessible. Does it allow for different voices or styles?
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@ella_hall4 yes fully customizable
Is it compatible with both desktop and mobile devices?
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@mary_gen Yes it is!
This is amazing! Turning written blogs into audio means I can finally keep up with my favorite blogs during commutes. It's such a simple but impactful upgrade for accessibility and audience reach.
I never realized how useful this could be until now. Sometimes I can't sit and read but I'd happily listen while cooking or walking. Great way to modernize how people consume content.
This is fantastic for engagement do you offer any analytics on listens compared to reads?
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@katie_west2 Yes full analytics board, with listening duration, unique visitors, and link attached to player.
I genuinely believe this tool may seem small but it can create a significant impact. Offering more ways for people to consume content reflects a user-first approach that truly brings blogs to life and makes them feel more human.
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@clara_ellington thanks i think so too. Excited to add new players like talking avatars, and more kid-friendly options.
I love the mission but I think some readers might be a bit picky about synthetic voices. If the quality comes off as too robotic they might lose interest. Natural sounding narration will be crucial for long term success.
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@sophie_wood Thats why I added elevenlabs, their work is phenomenial in realistic tone, and voice generation
Does your widget also keep track of analytics like how many people are actually listening compared to reading?
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@camille_mcintyre yes we do:)
What a reader friendly concept. Can I embed the widget on any CMS like WordPress or Ghost?
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@charlotte_richardson1 Yes! Working on documentation to try and test on WordPress, will be another weekend perhaps.
It’s so clean and innovative. Does it support multilingual blogs or is it just English for now?
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@daniel_reed3 The audio generators support several languages, i will have to check the openai docs and add it. Our app is currently only available in English, but we are working on translations soon.
This is a huge win for accessibility. Is there a way to automatically generate audio for every new post?
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@lucas_edwards1 yes you just land on the page and it does it automatically
It's a bit sad that free use requires an API key. It would be great if registration included 1–3 free uses.
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@bca5 Fair assessment, to be fair, ChatGPT and ElevenLabs give you several free credits to start, also, this just allows me not to restrict you.
The concept is great but scalability is key if a blogger has a ton of posts, can they convert them all at once or do they have to activate audio for each one individually?
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@imogen_barrett The audio is generated once, then it cache's and remains until the text is changed, or a voice setting to that player is changed.
This is perfect for busy readers can users download the audio as MP3s for offline listening?
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@elizabeth_turner4 no but thats an easy add and great idea!
How simple is it to set this up on an existing blog?
Does it need any technical tweaks like editing code snippets or is it more of a plug-and-play widget that anyone can use?
Accessibility is a huge plus but how do you manage blogs with mixed media like charts or embedded videos? Do those get skipped in the audio, or is there a fallback explanation provided?