Shorthand everywhere
“EPS +12% YoY”, “bps” and “FY2025” are fine on a page and painful when a voice reads them letter by letter.
Finance · annual reports · exam study
Annual reports and finance books, made listenable.
Reports and finance textbooks mix prose with tables, ratios and shorthand. Aethel expands the shorthand, describes what a table shows instead of reading every cell, and reads valuation formulas in words.
Five books and an hour of narration free. No card needed.
The problem
Tables don't read aloud
A voice reading a table cell by cell is noise. You need to know what the table shows.
Too many pages
A large company's annual report can run to hundreds of pages. Listening to the letter and the segment reviews while travelling saves desk time.
How Aethel helps
Finance shorthand expanded
YoY, QoQ, bps, EBITDA, EPS, CAGR and fiscal-year labels are read as words.
Tables summarised
Tables stay on screen; the narration says what they show, and you can ask for a specific figure.
Formulas in words
CAPM, discounting, Black–Scholes and portfolio maths are spoken clearly.
Executive dossiers
On the Executive plan, a dossier gives the thesis, mental models and takeaways of a book in minutes.
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.
E(Rᵢ) = R_f + βᵢ(E(R_m) − R_f)
Aethel says
E of R sub i equals R sub f plus beta sub i times the quantity E of R sub m, minus R sub f
σ² = (1/n) Σᵢ (xᵢ − μ)²
Aethel says
sigma squared equals the quantity 1 over n, the sum over i of the quantity x sub i minus mu, squared
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
Get started in three steps
- 1Create a free account.
- 2Upload the report or textbook as a text-based PDF.
- 3Start with the shareholder letter or the chapter you need, then ask about any figure.
Questions
Does it give investment advice?
No. Aethel reads and explains documents; it does not recommend investments. Check important numbers against the original document.
Can I use it for CFA, FRM or ACCA study?
Yes, if your study materials are available to you as a DRM-free EPUB or text-based PDF. Files locked to a store or a course platform can't be imported.
Compared with
Hear your own book this way.
Free to start: five books and an hour of narration, no card needed.