Listen
Hands-free playback with word-by-word highlighting, in any of six voices, at your pace.
ExploreGuided academic listening for deeper understanding
Listen through difficult readings. Understand them as you go.
Recitare combines synchronized word-level listening with document-grounded explanations, comprehension checks, and study preparation. You stay connected to the original material, from the first page to the moment you need to demonstrate what you know.
- Follow every word
- Choose your voice and speed
- Ask questions in context
- Prepare from the original material
attention-is-all-you-need.pdf
PII redactionWe propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.
Max: What does the model lose, and gain, by dropping recurrence? [Page 1]
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Follow
Listening that keeps you inside the reading.
Recitare highlights each word as it is spoken, so you follow the original text rather than replacing it with detached audio. This is the difference between hearing a paper and actually reading one.
- Word-level sync, so your eyes stay on the sentence being spoken
- Adjustable pace for the passages that need slowing down
- Your place is kept, so you can look away and come back
Six voices, three accents, the same on every plan. Hear each one on the player: every sample is a real Recitare recording of this sentence.
attention-is-all-you-need.pdf
PII redactionWe propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.
Max: What does the model lose, and gain, by dropping recurrence? [Page 1]
Hear the real voice0:00 / 0:09
Choose your voice. All 6 available on every plan. Tap one to hear it.
Clarify
When the reading becomes difficult, ask without leaving it.
Pause on a hard term, model, or paragraph and get an explanation grounded in the document, with a path back to the page it came from. Switch modes on the same document, no re-uploading.
Study
Tap any sentence for Explain this or Plain English. Draw over a figure and Max explains it. Every answer cites the page.
ExploreResearch
Word cloud, term frequency by page, concordance, and collocates, computed in your browser for literature-review triage.
ExploreUnderstand, then prepare
Do more than finish the reading.
Max checks whether you can explain what you just read, shows you which ideas still need attention, then turns what you understood into preparation you can revise from.
The figure in your paper
Fig. 2: no caption, no mercy.
Snap it. Max explains
Max: Each “head” reads the sentence from a different angle, then the results are combined, like three readers highlighting the same page for different reasons.
Cited from your diagram, Page 4Summaries & study guides
See the argument before deciding where to read more closely. Generated from your source, not the open web.
Flashcards
Spaced-repetition cards created from the concepts you actually listened to.
Audio Overviews
A two-host podcast-style discussion of your paper for a relaxed first pass.
Your library learns with you
Every paper you read makes the next one easier.
Each paper you add joins your library with a capsule — a one-line summary, key terms, and a ready-to-paste Harvard citation. Read it, and it becomes part of your reading record. Then ask questions across all of it at once: where your papers agree, where they pull against each other, and what the evidence actually says.
Where do my papers disagree on AI adoption in SMEs?
Max, from 4 of your papers
Three of your papers treat cost as the main barrier, but they split on trust: one argues adoption follows vendor credibility, while another finds employee attitudes matter more than the technology itself…
Cui & Bulis, p. 4Fernandez et al., p. 12Oldemeyer et al., p. 7
Ask your papers, in aggregate
Patterns of agreement, points of tension, the thread of an idea across a semester of reading — one question, every paper consulted, every claim cited back to its page.
From your sources, not the open web
Max answers only from the papers you’ve added. If your library doesn’t cover a question, Max says so instead of improvising — and every answer cites the paper and page it came from.
It compounds
A three-paper library answers small questions. A semester’s library maps a field. Your reading builds an asset you keep — with summaries, citations, and a record of what you’ve actually read.
Your first paper earns its summary and citation within a minute of signing up — no card required.
The problem
Difficult readings should not require five different tools.
A PDF in one place. Generic AI in another. Notes somewhere else. And no clear connection back to the source. Recitare brings the whole process into one guided flow.
Without Recitare
- A PDF open in one tab
- Audio playing somewhere else
- A hard paragraph pasted into generic AI
- Notes in a separate application
- Flashcards still waiting to be made
And a summary standing in for the understanding you actually needed.
With Recitare
- Listen. Start the reading you have been putting off.
- Follow. Never lose your place in a dense argument.
- Clarify. Get unstuck in seconds, not at office hours.
- Understand. Know the difference between recognising words and understanding them.
- Prepare. Prepare from the material your course actually assigned.
One document. One flow. Always connected to the source.
Where you are in your studies
Undergraduate
Catch up on the reading you are behind on, or go deeper on the reading you already do well.
See howGraduate and research
Work through long reading lists and difficult theory without losing the argument.
See howStudying in a second language
Follow assigned English material, and clarify the hard parts in the language you think in.
See howThe Recitare method
From difficult reading to confident understanding.
Five connected stages, all inside the document you uploaded. You never leave the original material to get help with it.
Listen
01Hear difficult academic material in a natural voice, at a speed suited to the reading.
Start the reading you have been putting off.
Follow
02Word-level highlighting keeps your eyes on the original text as it is spoken.
Never lose your place in a dense argument.
Clarify
03Pause on a difficult term, model, or paragraph and ask for an explanation without leaving the page.
Get unstuck in seconds, not at office hours.
Understand
04Document-grounded answers, page citations, and comprehension checks confirm you actually got it.
Know the difference between recognising words and understanding them.
Prepare
05Turn the reading into study guides, review questions, and flashcards drawn from the source.
Prepare from the material your course actually assigned.
Then demonstrate what you know with confidence.
In seminar discussion, in the assignment, in the presentation, and in the exam.
recitare: reader
PreviewDrop your paper
attention-is-all-you-need.pdf
Parsed: 15 pages, 6,204 words
The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks.
Why does multi-head attention help?
Each head attends to the sentence from a different angle, so the model captures several relationships at once. [Page 4]
Max: Q, K and V are three “views” of your sentence, attention scores how much each word should look at every other word.
Cited from your diagramDrop in any paper, parsed in seconds
Trust, by design
Stay connected to the source.
Every answer is grounded in the document you uploaded, not the open web, and points back to the page it came from. Concrete mechanisms, not a legal page of promises.
PII auto-redacted
Names, emails, and identifiers are stripped before anything is sent to an AI model.
Answers you can verify
Every response from Max cites the exact [Page X] it came from, no unsourced claims.
Never trained on your work
Your documents are yours. They are never used to train models, full stop.
Encrypted + audit log
Data encrypted at rest and in transit, with an activity log of every AI action — visible to you.
Pricing
Priced to work alongside the AI you already use.
Recitare is not another general AI subscription. It is a specialized reading environment for getting your actual reading done, alongside whatever AI you already use. Lock in early-adopter rates while Recitare is in early access: your price stays the same for as long as you stay subscribed.
Free
$0forever
Everything you need to try real guided listening.
- 20,000 words free to start, a full paper, no card
- 1,000 words per week after (quality AI voices)
- Upload PDFs, Word docs, text & images
- Word-by-word karaoke highlighting
- Max's Quick Insights (3 / day)
- Chat with Max (5 messages / day)
- Key Concepts study guide
- No credit card required
Recommended
Scholar
$9/ month
The plan for most readers: a month of course reading, guided and studied.
- 100,000 words per month (≈ 12–16 papers, or ~11 hrs of listening)
- 6 natural voices, 3 accents
- Unlimited Max insights & chat
- All 5 study guide formats
- Webpage & arXiv import
- Audio Overview podcasts (5 / month)
- Chrome extension
- Email support
For intensive reading
Researcher
$18/ month
For grad students and intensive readers working across a substantial monthly literature load.
- 300,000 words per month (≈ 35+ papers, a full semester)
- Max AI Tutor with adaptive voice & vibe
- Snap-to-Explain (300 DPI diagram analysis)
- Socratic Study Mode
- Smart Cards with clipboard export
- Ask While Listening
- Audio Overview podcasts (50 / month)
- 10-Minute Sprint Mode
Secure payment via Stripe. Cancel anytime from your account.
Why Recitare exists
Recitare began as a side project in the first year of a PhD, born of a reading list that never got shorter. It is built around one idea: listen like you study, slowly, with a tutor beside you and a citation for every claim.
Independently built, now in early access. No investors telling us to chase skimmers instead of serious readers. Read the story
From our first readers, coming soon
Recitare is in early access, so we won't invent quotes or numbers. Real words from real early users will live here. Want to be one of them?
Join the first cohortFAQ
Questions, answered straight.
Is the free plan actually usable, or just a teaser?
Yes. When you sign up you get 20,000 free words to start, enough to listen all the way through a full paper (or two) with the same lifelike voices and word-by-word karaoke as the paid plans, no credit card. It's a one-time welcome grant that waits until you use it; after that, Free continues at 1,000 words a week.
Why are the classics free? Who are they from?
They are in the public domain: their copyright has expired, so anyone may read, copy, and share them. Recitare lists about 6,000 of them, with texts from Project Gutenberg (a volunteer library running since 1971) and audiobooks from LibriVox volunteers. Listening to them uses your plan's words like any other document, and the voices and word highlighting are the same.
What can I upload or import?
PDFs, Word docs, PowerPoint, and images (we OCR them), plus any web article. You can also pull papers straight from arXiv, PubMed, and Project Gutenberg with one click.
Is this just text-to-speech?
No. Text-to-speech reads a document at you and stops there. Recitare keeps you inside the reading: each word is highlighted as it is spoken, you can pause on a hard passage and ask about it without leaving the page, answers cite the page they came from, and Max checks whether you can explain what you just heard before helping you build study material from it.
Will listening on its own actually make me understand the reading?
Listening gets you through material that felt resistant, which matters. But it is the start of the process, not the whole of it. Recitare is built so that listening leads somewhere: clarify what confused you, confirm you can explain it, then prepare from the original source. A summary is not the same as comprehension, and we do not present it as one.
How is Max different from ChatGPT?
Max only answers from the document in front of you and cites the exact [Page X] it drew from, no open-web guessing or invented sources. Anything personal is stripped out before it ever reaches a model.
Is my data private? Do you train AI on it?
Never. Your documents are yours. Personal details are auto-redacted before AI analysis calls, everything is encrypted in transit and at rest, and every access is logged.
See how we handle your data →Do the early-adopter prices really stay locked?
Yes. Subscribe during early access and your rate stays locked for as long as your subscription remains active. Price rises only ever apply to new subscribers, never to a continuously active plan.
Does it work on my phone?
Recitare runs in any modern browser on desktop and mobile, and a Chrome extension can read any webpage aloud. There is no app to install.
Which voices and accents are there?
Six lifelike Inworld voices across American, British, and Australian accents, all with word-by-word karaoke highlighting, on every plan.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes, one click from your account. Billing is handled securely by Stripe.
Your next difficult reading does not have to feel impossible.
Listen through it. Follow every word. Clarify what is difficult. Understand what matters. Prepare to demonstrate what you know.
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