The same paragraph, three times
Attention drifts mid-sentence and the eye goes back to the top. An hour passes and the page has not turned.
ADHD · staying with the text
Dense reading that holds your attention.
Many readers with ADHD find that hearing a text while seeing it keeps them on the page: the voice sets the pace and the highlight shows the place. Aethel brings that to technical books and papers, where attention is hardest to hold and where ordinary read-aloud tools break on the equations.
Five books and an hour of narration free. No card needed.
The problem
Starting is the hard part
A 40-page chapter is easy to put off. A ten-minute listen is not.
Questions break the flow
Looking up one term opens five tabs, and the chapter is forgotten.
How Aethel helps
Two channels at once
Audio and highlighted text together. If your eyes wander, the voice keeps going and the highlight shows where to rejoin.
Set the pace
Speed from 0.8× to 2.5×. Some listeners find a faster voice easier to stay with than a slow one.
Continue where you stopped
Your place is saved in every book and follows your account from one device to the next. Short sessions add up.
Ask without leaving the page
Tap the sentence and ask. The answer appears in place, and the chapter is still there when you have read it.
What you will hear
These are produced live by the same speech engine the app uses. Press Listen to hear them in your device's voice; in the app you choose a studio or ElevenLabs voice.
P(A|B) = P(B|A) P(A) / P(B)
Aethel says
P of A given B equals P of B given A, times P of A, over P of B
X ∼ N(0, 1)
Aethel says
X is distributed as N of 0, 1
Get started in three steps
- 1Create a free account.
- 2Import the chapter you have been putting off.
- 3Press play and listen to one section. Stop there, or keep going.
Questions
Is Aethel a treatment for ADHD?
No. It is a reading tool. It combines listening with highlighted text, which many readers find helps them stay with long or dense material.
Can I use it in short bursts?
Yes. Your place is saved, so five minutes on a bus continues where the last session ended.
Does it work for formula-heavy subjects?
That is what it is built for: equations are read as maths and figures are described, so the audio has no holes in it.
Can I listen away from the screen?
Yes. Save chapters for offline listening and take the first pass on a walk, then return to the page for the details.
Hear your own book this way.
Free to start: five books and an hour of narration, no card needed.