Hear your poem, story or script as a voice-over
You wrote it by hand - in a notebook, on the back of an envelope, on a pad by the bed. Take a photo and Scriveno turns the page into text, then into a voice-over you can listen to, share or keep. No typing it up first.
A handwritten page, ready to be heard
Handwritten Paragraph
The original handwritten paragraph — small, faint writing on dim paper.
How it works
Photograph or scan the page
Take a photo (JPG or PNG) or upload a PDF. A multi-page PDF is read page by page into one document.
Check the text
The handwriting is transcribed into text you can read through and correct, so the voice-over says exactly what you wrote.
Choose a voice and listen
Pick a voice for the language you wrote in, create the voice-over and download it as an MP3 - or play it straight away.
Hear the rhythm of your poem
A poem is written to be heard. Listening to it read aloud shows where a line runs too long, where a rhyme lands too hard and where the rhythm stumbles - things that are easy to miss on the page.
Write the draft by hand as you always do, photograph it and hear it read back before you rework it, read it at an open mic or send it to someone.
Bedtime stories you wrote yourself
Turn a story you wrote for your children into audio they can play when you're not there to read it - on a trip, at a grandparent's house or for the hundredth time in a row.
The same works for short stories, fairy tales and chapters of a longer piece: hearing your own prose read by another voice is one of the quickest ways to catch clumsy sentences.
Hear your script before anyone else does
Scripts for a short film, a play, a podcast episode, a presentation or a speech are meant to be spoken. Hear your handwritten draft read aloud to check its length, its flow and how the lines sound out loud.
One voice reads the whole document, so it is a read-through of your draft rather than a performance with a voice for each character.
Keep a handwritten letter with a voice
Letters, diaries, family recipes and the stories older relatives wrote down are easy to lose and hard to read once the handwriting fades. Photograph the page to keep the words as text, and as audio anyone in the family can listen to.
Every voice is software-generated - none is a recording of a real person - so a voice-over keeps the words, not the writer's own voice.
- Hear a poem's rhythm and line breaks before you read it in public
- Give children a bedtime story you wrote, to play any time
- Check how a script or speech sounds, and roughly how long it runs
- Keep a handwritten letter or recipe as text and audio
Frequently asked questions
- Does it work with my own handwriting?
- Yes - it is made for handwriting, and printed pages work too. You see the transcribed text before you make a voice-over, so you can correct a misread word first.
- Can each character in my script get a different voice?
- No. One voice reads the whole document, so a voice-over works as a read-through of your script rather than a full cast performance.
- Which languages can the voice-over be in?
- The language you wrote in - choose it when you pick a voice, and its voices are listed there.
- Can I download the voice-over?
- Yes. Every voice-over can be played in the browser or downloaded as an MP3 file. Voice-overs use voice-over points; see the pricing page for each plan's monthly allowance.
- Are the voices real people?
- No. Every voice is software-generated; none is a recording of a real person's voice.
- What happens to my uploaded notes?
- Pages are read by recognition models Scriveno runs on its own servers in Denmark - they aren't sent to a third-party AI provider and are never used to train a model. Uploads and every file made from them are deleted automatically after the file-retention period, currently 7 days. Read the Privacy Policy
Hear what you wrote
Photograph a handwritten page, check the text and turn it into a voice-over.
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