Selected or copied text,
read out loud.

Select text in any app and press a shortcut. Narrato reads it in a natural voice, at a pace you set. If nothing is selected, it reads whatever you last copied. Powered by Kokoro, running locally on your Mac. No hourly caps and no word meters, because it's your machine doing the reading.

Reader · narrato.app/manifesto

The quiet kind of software

There is a quiet kind of software that asks for nothing: no account, no email, no cloud. It runs on your machine, listens when you ask, and speaks in a voice you chose.

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Try Narrato free Hear the 54 voices →

54 VOICES · 9 LANGUAGES

Worth listening to.

Every one renders on your Mac. Pick a voice, and it takes over the reader at the top of the page.

AMERICAN ENGLISH · US

Heart

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Three keys, then it talks

One shortcut, start to finish. No window to manage, no app to switch into.

Select or copy text

IN ANY APP

Highlight a passage anywhere. If nothing is highlighted, Narrato reads whatever you last copied.

Press the shortcut

⌃⌥Space

System-wide. You never leave the app you’re reading in.

It reads while you work

Carry on: scroll, switch apps, take notes. It keeps reading in the background, in the voice you picked.

Steer it without looking

Skip around or change the pace mid-read, without ever leaving what you were doing.

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Narrato reads the passage you selected.

Skip ahead when a paragraph repeats itself, or

jump back when a sentence deserves a second pass.

Tune the pace in small, precise steps until the

voice keeps up with the way that you think.

Your eyes stay on the page and your hands stay

on the keyboard, because every transport control

answers to the same two modifier keys. Skim less,

hear more, and stay right where you were working.

Skip forward 15 seconds

Selected text first, clipboard otherwise

Highlighted text comes first. If nothing is highlighted, Narrato reads whatever you last copied. Flip the switch and watch which path lights up.

⌃⌥Space

NARRATO CHECKS

Any text selected?

YES

Reads your selection

highlighted text wins

Reads your clipboard

whatever you last copied

TTS ENGINE · MODEL CARDnarrato://engine/tts

MODEL

Kokoro 82M

Open-weight TTS, synthesized on your Mac through MLX on Apple’s GPU.

No cloud voice API and no audio leaving the device. The Kokoro project reports training on under 100 hours of permissive, non-copyrighted audio; 24 kHz output. See how privacy works →

hexgrad/kokoro ↗ Kokoro-82M ↗

PARAMETERS82M

ARCHITECTUREStyleTTS 2 · ISTFTNet

LICENSEApache-2.0

RUNTIMEMLX · Apple GPU

SAMPLE RATE24 kHz

EXECUTION100% on-device

WAIT BEFORE READING STARTSunder a second

Email & list~0.7 s

Clipboard text~0.7 s

Plain prose~0.6 s

Forum thread~0.55 s

Long passages are chunked, so Narrato starts reading the first section while preparing the rest — bigger selections don't start slower. Measured July 20, 2026 on an M3 MacBook Pro (16 GB, macOS 15), models warm.

Give your eyes a rest.

Listen to selected or copied text on your Mac, in a voice you picked, without a word leaving the device.

Try Narrato free

Selected or copied text,read out loud.