Liso

Liso turns your reading queue into a listening queue: highlight any article, newsletter, blog post or thread on the web and Liso reads it back in a natural AI voice — "a personal podcast built from your own reading list," as they put it, positioning directly against Speechify. There's a browser-extension flow (highlight, right-click, listen) plus paste-into-app, with playback controls, resume-where-you-left-off and offline downloads.

The use case is real and specific: people whose eyes are busy but ears are free — commutes, chores, gym time — with a saved-reading list that only grows. Compared to generic TTS, the library-and-queue model is what makes it a reading workflow rather than a one-off conversion.

Who it's for: long-form readers who want to reclaim screen-free time, newsletter hoarders with 47 unread issues, and accessibility users. Pricing runs $17/month or $88/year. Worth checking which sites' paywalls interact badly with the highlighter before committing — that's the usual friction point for this category.