(For listeners)
With text-to-speech, you can listen to posts in the Substack app in just two steps.
Note: Text-to-speech is available on most but not on all publications.
1. Open the Substack App and tap on the play icon at the top right of your screen on a post.
2. The audio will automatically start playing in the app player.
Tips for text-to-speech:
- Just like a podcast episode or voiceover, the audio will play in the background unless you tap pause or fully exit/fully close the app i.e. remove it from your device's menu of open apps.
- If a Substack doesn't have text-to-speech available or on some older posts, you may see a message about how the post doesn't have audio when you tap the play icon.
Tip: Text-to-speech is only available on the Substack App and posts that are written in English.
(For writers)
If your publication has the text-to-speech feature, you can select from a variety of voices that listeners will hear when your post is being read aloud.
Head to the Branding section on your publication's Settings page. Next to "Read-aloud voice", select from the menu female or male voices with different tonality and pronunciation. Oliver (male voice with a direct neutral tone) will be the default voice unless a different voice is selected.