Read later App Omnivore is shutting down heise online

Open source tool Omnivore helps save and organize web pages and documents for later reading. Marking, comments, keywording, changing fonts and sizes, integrating RSS feeds, and automatic reading are also possible. The latter is controlled by ElevenLabs’ embedded voice output. But now ElevenLabs is incorporating the complete Omnivore application.

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Omnivore’s founders announced this on Tuesday. They invite their users to use a new application called ElevenReader, which is available for Android and iOS. Unlike Omnivore, there are apparently no browser plugins. Data stored in Omnivore can be transferred to ElevenReader until November 15, after which Omnivore will delete any remaining data.

If you don’t want to switch to ElevenReader, you can also download your Omnivore data, only until November 15th. The Omnivore source code remains available as open source. It remains to be seen whether anyone will use it to set up a new read-letter service.

32 languages ​​plus Bavarian

Like Omnivore, ElevenReader is free – for now. A “premium” version of the app will be released “one day.” “Nevertheless, we will maintain a generous duty-free tariff,” ElevenLabs promises. The ElevenReaders user interface is initially available only in English, with other languages ​​becoming available later. Reading routine speaks 32 languages. Some of them also have pronunciation variants, for example Bavarian German, Canadian English or Moravian Czech.

Of course, Polish is also supported, after all, ElevenLabs was founded by two Poles in New York. That was just two years ago. Earlier this year, venture capitalists valued speech-to-text company ElevenLabs at more than $1 billion. Not only are fully synthetic voices offered, but synthetic clones of real voices are also offered. Voice clones are so good that they can even fool bank voice ID systems.

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