Changelog

What's new in Bookbeam across the Android app, the Wear OS app and the Chrome extension. Newest first.

Coming soon · Android 0.1.116

In testing now.

Performance for ElevenLabs voices. Choose how a book is read: Narrator (one voice, even delivery), Expressive (emotion and pacing from the text) or Full cast (a voice for each character in dialogue). Set a default in Settings › Read aloud and change it for any book from the reader's read-aloud menu.
Cast sheet. In Full cast, characters appear as they speak and you can give each one a different voice. Lines without a named speaker stay with the narrator.
Smoother listening in the car. With Expressive or Full cast, the next few passages are prepared ahead of time. If one isn't ready yet in Android Auto, the Narrator voice reads it so playback never stops.
Even loudness in Android Auto. Whispers stay audible over road noise and shouts don't startle.

Expressive and Full cast use ElevenLabs v3, which uses voice time about twice as fast as the Flash model.

Android Auto chapter progress bar with elapsed time and chapter length. Drag it to jump within the chapter.

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