Every book, given a voice
Android
Lunettes is a premium Android reading app that gives every book a voice — designed specifically for people with dyslexia, visual impairment, ADHD, or any print disability, but built to feel like a luxury product rather than a medical tool.
The name comes from the French word for spectacles, rooted in lune — moon. In architecture, a lunette is the small semicircular window above a door that lets light into a dark space. That is exactly what the app does.
Most text-to-speech apps just read words aloud in a flat, robotic voice. Lunettes passes the text through Claude AI first, which detects the emotional context of what's being read — tension, grief, romance, humour, panic — and generates delivery instructions. ElevenLabs then narrates with matching pitch, pace, and tone. A chase scene sounds like a chase scene. A quiet moment sounds quiet. No other TTS app does this.
Overlay mode sits invisibly on top of Kindle or any ebook app. The user presses Play, the screen dims to near-black (appearing off, but keeping the reading service running), and the app reads whatever is on screen — turning pages automatically, completely hands-free. No DRM is touched; it reads only what's already displayed, which is fully legal under the Marrakesh Treaty 2018.
Import mode lets users bring their own DRM-free EPUBs or PDFs — Project Gutenberg titles, sideloaded books — directly into the app.
A Family Helper account lets a carer, parent, or friend remotely set up the next book and adjust voice settings from anywhere, with the reader's explicit real-time consent before anything changes. Real-time translation into any language is also built in — useful for non-native speakers and the Japanese manga community.
Dark navy, warm cream, soft gold. Cormorant Garamond for headings and reading text, DM Sans for controls. Literary, calm, and confident. The hand can find the play button in the dark. It never feels like a medical device.