Later reading app Omnivore closes down

The open source tool Omnivore helps to save and organize websites and documents so that they can be read later. It is also possible to add markers, comments, keywords, change the font and font size, integrate RSS feeds and read aloud automatically. The latter is handled by the embedded voice output from Elevenlabs. Now, however, Elevenlabs is incorporating the entire Omnivore application.

The Omnivore founders announced this on Tuesday. They are inviting 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.

Those who do not wish to switch to Elevenreader can also download their Omnivore data, also only until November 15. Omnivore's source code will remain available as open source. It remains to be seen whether anyone will use it to set up a new late reading service.

32 languages plus Bavarian

Like Omnivore, Elevenreader is free of charge – for the time being. "One day" a "premium" version of the app will be released. "Even then, we will maintain a generous free tariff," promises Elevenlabs. The Elevenreaders user interface is only available in English for the time being, with other languages to follow. The reading routine speaks 32 languages. For some of these, there are additional accent variants, for example Bavarian German, Canadian English or Moravian Czech.

Of course, Polish is also supported, as Elevenlabs was founded by two Poles in New York. That was just two years ago. At the beginning of this year, venture capitalists valued the voice output company Elevenlabs at more than one billion US dollars. The company offers not only fully synthetic voices, but also synthetic clones of real voices. The voice clones are so good that they can even fool banks' voice ID systems.

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