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Roman Reads reads the book out loud and highlights each word as it is spoken, so you can follow along and never lose your place. It is made for anyone who finds long books hard to finish, including readers with ADHD or dyslexia. We sell the printed books too.
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Listen and read together to keep your place, follow every word, and stay with the story.
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Any book, read out loud in 340 voices.
R1 is our own AI narrator. It reads our audiobooks, and any book or PDF you upload, in 340 voices and 63 languages. Pick a voice you like and it reads you the whole book.
Follow every word. Each one lights up on the page as it is read.
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Calm, steady reading, the way a chapter begins.One character chatting to another, relaxed and friendly.A character shouting in anger, read by the same voice.Reading Faiz. R1 learned his voice from 64 seconds of audio that did not include these lines.Reading his own ghazal. R1 learned his voice from 111 seconds of audio.
Crime and PunishmentFyodor DostoevskyMujh se pahlī sī mohabbatFaiz Ahmed FaizHam ne wafā ke nām parJaun Elia
On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
He had successfully avoided meeting his landlady on the staircase. His garret was under the roof of a high, five-storied house and was more like a cupboard than a room. The landlady who provided him with garret, dinners, and attendance, lived on the floor below, and every time he went out he was obliged to pass her kitchen, the door of which invariably stood open.
‘The loaf I’ll fetch you this very minute, but wouldn’t you rather have some cabbage soup instead of sausage? It’s capital soup, yesterday’s. I saved it for you yesterday, but you came in late. It’s fine soup.’
When the soup had been brought, and he had begun upon it, Nastasya sat down beside him on the sofa and began chatting. She was a country peasant-woman and a very talkative one.
‘Praskovya Pavlovna means to complain to the police about you,’ she said.
Taking no further notice of him, she walked towards the outer door to close it and uttered a sudden scream on seeing her husband on his knees in the doorway.
‘Ah!’ she cried out in a frenzy, ‘he has come back! The criminal! the monster! And where is the money? What’s in your pocket, show me! Where are your clothes? Where is the money! Speak!’
And she fell to searching him. Marmeladov submissively and obediently held up both arms to facilitate the search. Not a farthing was there.
مجھ سے پہلی سی محبت مری محبوب نہ مانگmujh se pahlī sī mohabbat mirī mahbūb na māñgمیں نے سمجھا تھا کہ تو ہے تو درخشاں ہے حیاتmaiñ ne samjhā thā ki tū hai to darakhshāñ hai hayāt
فیض احمد فیضFaiz Ahmed Faiz, 1911–1984
ہم نے وفا کے نام پر کارِ وفا نہیں کیاham ne wafā ke nām par kār-e-wafā nahīñ kiyāخود کو ہلاک کر لیا، خود کو فدا نہیں کیاkhud ko halāk kar liyā, khud ko fidā nahīñ kiyā
جون ایلیاJaun Elia, 1931–2002
NarrationPart One, Chapter IConversationPart One, Chapter IIIA raised voicePart One, Chapter IINazmR1, in Zia Mohyeddin’s voiceGhazalR1, in Jaun Elia’s voice
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Choose who reads itAdrian is readingSarah is readingSelene is readingAyesha is readingHamza is readingZia Mohyeddin is readingJaun Elia is reading
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Translated by Constance Garnett, 1914
9 volumes · 7 writers
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment, 1866
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