Listen to any web article — paste a URL into Yomite's Web Reader

Your “read later” pile keeps growing because reading takes a dedicated hour you don’t have. Yomite’s Web Reader turns those waiting minutes into reading minutes — paste a URL, get a clean spoken article with no ads, no nav, no comments.

Three steps

1. Copy a URL

From your browser, a Twitter thread, a Slack link, an email. Anything.

2. Open Yomite

Tap the “Web リーダー” (Web Reader) tab at the bottom.

3. Paste and “読み込み” (Load)

Paste the URL → Load. Yomite fetches the article and runs 記事抽出 (the same library Firefox and Pocket use) to extract the body text.

What’s read aloud: title, author, body. What’s not: ads, navigation, related-articles widgets, comment threads.

Sites we’ve verified

記事抽出 works on a long list of sites. Tested and reliable:

News

• NHK NEWS WEB
• Nikkei Online (free articles)
• Asahi Shimbun Digital (free articles)
• Mainichi Shimbun (free articles)
• Yomiuri Online
• Yahoo News
• Bloomberg Japan
• Reuters JP
• ITmedia / @IT
• CNET Japan / TechCrunch Japan

Blogs and long-form

• note
• Hatena Blog & individual Hatena bookmark articles
• Qiita / Zenn
• WIRED Japan
• Huffington Post

English sources

The voices are Japanese, so English text gets read with a Japanese phonetic interpretation — fine for skimming, weird for serious listening. But it works on:

• Medium
• The New York Times
• The Atlantic
• BBC News
• The Verge

Paywalls and login pages are out of scope

Yomite can’t bypass paywalls or login walls. That includes:

• Nikkei paid members-only articles
• Asahi members-only articles
• NYT articles past the free quota
• Sites that require an account to view
• Some SPAs that render body text purely via JavaScript

Workaround: get the article into readable form in your browser first (or just copy-paste the text), then drop it into Yomite’s “Text Reader” feature.

Build a “to listen” queue

Tap to save any article to your Library. Saved articles:

• Work offline (the extracted body is cached locally)
• Track read / unread state
• Can be sorted into folders
• Support batch operations (“mark all read”, “delete all”)

A practical loop: queue 5–10 articles before your commute, blow through them on the train.

Voice recommendations

• Hard news → 阿井田 茂 (broadcaster baritone)
• Analysis pieces → 凛音エル (cool, controlled)
• Essays / blog posts → 桜音 or まい (warmer)
• Tech (Qiita / Zenn) → fumifumi / 阿井田 茂 (matter-of-fact)
• note long-form → みちのくあいり (expressive)

You can set a default voice per category in “Web Reader settings → Default voice”, so you don’t have to pick every time.

Speed sweet spots

• Skim listen → 1.5×
• Comprehend properly → 1.0×–1.2×
• Just the highlights → 2.0× + chapter skipping

Speed is remembered per article, so you can have “this one at 1.2×, that one at 1.8×”.

Enjoy it in the app

Yomite is a reading / listening app. Listen to imported articles inside the app. Speech synthesis runs entirely on your device, and the text is never sent to our servers. If you do publish the generated audio externally, follow the Terms (§7) and at minimum credit “Yomite (読み手)”.

When things go wrong

• Body extraction fails on a site — 記事抽出 heuristics sometimes mis-classify. Send the URL and what you saw to [email protected] and we’ll investigate.
• Playback stalls — check device storage. 言語処理 model + a voice = roughly 1 GB needed.
• A character is consistently mispronounced — register it in the pronunciation dictionary. The override applies across every article.

Happy reading-by-ear.