Runo — Finnish for poem
The things you read,
read aloud.
Bring a file. Runo splits it into chapters and narrates them with an AI voice you choose — then hands you an audiobook you can keep and a player that remembers exactly where you stopped.
In preview — narration is free while we tune it.
Thirty-four seconds
This is what it sounds like
Not a demo reel — Runo made this clip the same way it will make your chapters, in the same voice you get on your first upload.
Voice: saga AI-generated speech, not a human recording
Three steps, then it is audio
You bring the words and choose what gets read. Runo does the rest — finding the chapters, cleaning up the page furniture, narrating, and keeping your place across every device you listen on.
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Bring the text
Upload the file. Including books you have bought, as long as they came without copy protection. Runo never goes and fetches anything on your behalf — nothing enters your library that you did not put there.
Runo does the tidying: tags, author notes, navigation, drop-cap images and anti-piracy lines all go, so none of it gets read aloud at you.
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Pick a voice
Then narrate one chapter and listen before committing a whole book. Nothing is narrated until you ask for it.
You decide what gets read and when — chapters are made one at a time, so you can stop, change voice, and carry on where you left off.
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Listen anywhere
Play it here with the text following along, or download a single M4B with chapter markers that your phone treats as an audiobook.
Yours to keep — every chapter downloads as an ordinary audio file that plays anywhere, with or without us.
Whatever it is you have
Built for the things you already read
Novels, papers, manuals, manuscripts, the report you would rather hear on the train. If it is text in a file, it is something Runo can read to you.
- EPUB Ready now
- MOBI · AZW3 Ready now
- PDF Next
- Word · HTML · text Coming
- Slides Coming
Each format gets its own handling rather than a shared best guess — chapters found the way that format marks them, and the page furniture stripped the way that format buries it. That is slower to build and it is the reason the narration does not read a table of contents at you.
Where we stand
Your library is yours
Audio is private to your account. There is no sharing surface, no public feed, and no browsing other people's books — including for us. Delete a book and its audio goes with it.
Built in the EU
Run from Finland on European infrastructure. You can export your data or delete your account outright.
Not a piracy tool
Runo narrates things you already have, for your own listening. It fetches nothing on your behalf and hosts no catalogue — every file in your library is one you uploaded. We are not a library.
Start with one chapter
A whole book takes a while to narrate. One chapter takes minutes, and it tells you everything you need to know about whether this is for you.