Too much to read
Courses assign more reading than there are evenings. Listening adds hours you already have.
For students
Get through the reading list, not just the reading.
Aethel is built for coursework that doesn't fit a normal audiobook: maths, statistics, engineering, economics and research papers. Listen between lectures, ask about the hard step, and keep what you learnt with review cards.
Five books and an hour of narration free. No card needed.
The problem
Generic voices can't do maths
A normal reader turns equations into symbols and skips figures, which is exactly the content you're tested on.
Re-reading doesn't stick
Hearing a chapter once is a start. Remembering it needs review.
How Aethel helps
Student price
Sign up with your university email address and the student discount is applied at checkout when a student offer is running.
Review cards
Every chapter you open gets review cards: real questions with short answers, spaced over days so they stick.
Offline listening
Save chapters on your phone for the bus, the gym or a flight home.
Start free
Five books and an hour of narration are free, no card needed.
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.
x = (−b ± √(b² − 4ac)) / 2a
Aethel says
x equals the quantity negative b plus or minus the square root of the quantity b squared minus 4ac, over 2a
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
e^(iπ) + 1 = 0
Aethel says
e to the power of i pi, plus 1 equals 0
Get started in three steps
- 1Create a free account with your university email.
- 2Import this week's chapter or paper.
- 3Listen once, then spend five minutes a day in Review with the cards Aethel wrote for that chapter.
Questions
Which emails count as student emails?
University and college domains such as .edu, .ac.uk and similar academic domains in many countries. If your university's domain isn't recognised, contact us.
Can my university library offer Aethel?
Yes. See the partners page for libraries and accessibility services.
Hear your own book this way.
Free to start: five books and an hour of narration, no card needed.