MojoPad reads to you. Any page, web clip, PDF, or imported book can be read out loud — on your Mac, with the sentence and word you're hearing highlighted as it goes, so you can follow along or just listen. It's the twin of Dictation: that turns your voice into text; this turns your text into voice.
Open any page and press ⌥⌘R, click the speaker in the format bar, or choose
Edit ▸ Read Page Aloud. Reading begins from the top, and a small reading bar appears with the
controls. To start partway down instead, put your cursor where you want to begin and choose
Read Aloud from Here (⇧⌥⌘R) — or right-click and pick it. That's the quick way to
skip a book's front matter and start at chapter one.
While a read is running, the bar shows play / pause, a stop square, and your place (sentence 12 / 340). Change the speed on the fly — 0.8× to 2× — and it takes effect from the next sentence. Pick a different voice from the same bar and the read switches to it. Reading also stops on its own the moment you leave the page, so a read always belongs to the page it started on.
System voices — every voice built into your Mac (System Settings ▸ Accessibility ▸ Spoken Content has more to download). They're instant and fully offline. Enhanced and Premium system voices are grouped at the top of the picker.
MojoPad Voice — a small neural voice that runs entirely on your Mac for a warmer, more natural read (choose from Heart, Bella, Nicole, Michael, Fenrir, Emma, or George). The first time you pick one, MojoPad asks to download the voice model once (roughly 90–330 MB, depending on your hardware). After that it lives on your Mac and nothing you read aloud ever leaves the machine — the download is the only moment it touches the network.
Read a note and the spoken sentence and word light up in place — the page scrolls to keep them centered, like a teleprompter. The same follow-along works in web captures, in PDFs (the reader turns pages as it reads), in ePub books (it reads the chapter you're on), and on canvas cards — the speaking card wears a ring. Folded-away content stays silent; what you've collapsed isn't read.