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Highlight capture, spaced review and a read-later app for saved articles

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Readwise is now tuning Reader's voices, not just adding them.

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◆Current state
Readwise ships a weekly changelog that pairs one or two features with a long run of Reader fixes. The October 9 release follows up on the Lifelike Voices beta: steadier pacing, no clipped first words, and fixes for TTS stalls that delayed some RSS articles by 20 seconds or more. The rest is mobile polish (menus, paginated mode, iOS 27 highlighting) and an extraction fallback for articles the main parser truncates.
◆Where it's heading
Text-to-speech has become the main product thread: new voices and a floating player on October 2, then pacing and reliability work a week later. Ghostreader moved to library-wide AI in August and to a GPT-6 Luna default in September, while the mobile Reader app keeps absorbing cleanup after the 2.0 rebuild. Readwise is building Reader into a place where you can read, listen to, and query everything you've saved.
◆Prediction
Lifelike Voices will likely leave beta or add languages beyond American and British English, since the last two releases both worked on it. Whether Ghostreader and TTS get connected is not visible in these entries.

◆Recent moves

  1. 8d ago

    Lifelike voices get steadier pacing as TTS stalls are fixed

    A week after Lifelike Voices launched in beta, Readwise retuned their pacing and fixed TTS stalls on stylized text and long RSS articles. Fixing playback this soon shows listening is a core Reader mode now, not a side feature. A parser fallback for truncated articles and a batch of mobile reading fixes fill out the release.

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  2. 15d ago

    Lifelike TTS voices, reading themes and a faster Reader launch

    Text-to-speech gets 16 new beta voices with previews, a floating mobile player, and footnote markers skipped when read aloud. Reading themes and a faster app launch round out a release focused on the mobile Reader experience after the 2.0 rebuild.

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  3. 22d ago

    Ghostreader defaults to GPT-6 Luna; homepage redesign

    Automatic summaries and document tagging now run on GPT-6 Luna by default, included in the existing subscription. It keeps Ghostreader's baseline quality moving without a pricing change, following the Global Ghostreader launch in August.

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  4. 29d ago

    Redesigned review emails and Reader API highlight creation

    Developers can now create anchored highlights through the Reader API, and Daily Review emails get the 2.0 design. The API change matters most for third-party tools that sync highlights into Reader.

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  5. 1mo ago

    YouTube chapters in Reader, focus-indicator toggle, scan loupe

    Saved YouTube videos now expose their chapters in the Contents panel with synced seeking. It extends Reader's treatment of video as a first-class document type.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Reader fixes: focus mode, PDF page jump, custom OpenAI keys

    Fixes focus-mode dimming across document types and a false 'Invalid key' error for custom OpenAI keys. Maintenance that removes friction without adding features.

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