AI Voices, Text-to-Speech Redesign, and Android Update

December 4, 2025 2 min read

Today, we’re excited to launch AI Voices, which are high-quality, streaming text-to-speech voices. We’ve completely redesigned the text-to-speech player to make it more modern and intuitive. Lastly, we’re launching a major Android update with an improved search experience and a number of other features.

AI Voices

Instapaper has supported text-to-speech for over 10 years, leveraging system voices available from iOS and Android. The state of the art has improved significantly since we first launch text-to-speech, and we’re excited to launch 17 high-quality text-to-speech voices across the following languages and accents:

  • English (US)
  • English (UK)
  • Chinese
  • French
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Hindi
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese

Below you can listen to the first paragraph of this post with a System Voice versus the new AI Voice:

System Voice (Samantha)

AI Voice (Grace)

AI Voices are available on Instapaper iOS 9.4 with a Premium subscription. Android support will be coming soon!

Text-to-Speech Redesign

In addition to the AI Voices, we’ve completely redesigned text-to-speech as a floating player throughout the application. You can easily expand the player to navigate to Playlist, select different voices, or manage articles while listening.

It’s a huge improvement to the previous experience, especially when combined with enhanced AI voices.

Android 6.4 Launch

We’re also excited to announce the launch of Instapaper Android 6.4:

  • Search Improvements: Local, title-only search is now free and available for all Instapaper users. Full-text search now always opens articles in the reader view, where previously, non-sync’d articles would only open the original website.
  • Article Editing: Edit article titles and descriptions by long-pressing an article > Tap “…” > Tap “Edit”.
  • Folder & Tag Editing: Edit the names of folders and tags by navigating to the folder or tag > Tap “…” > Tap “Edit”.
  • Public Folder Support: Android 6.4 includes support for public folders, showing which folders are public in the menu, and enabling the ability to set folders as public or private.
  • Other fixes & improvements: This release also comes with a number of stability and performance improvements.

Thanks for reading! As always, our roadmap is informed by your feature requests and bug reports, so please don’t hesitate to reach out with any feedback, questions, or concerns to support@instapaper.com.

– Instapaper Team

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