For research & science communicators
The audience you want will never open the PDF.
You already translate research into plain language. Narrate those summaries and they reach people where papers can't — commutes, labs, clinic waiting rooms — with the text highlighted in sync for the parts that need a second look.
Try it with your own summary
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Plain language deserves more than a webpage.
The whole point of a research summary is reach: past the paywall, past the jargon, past the PDF. Audio extends that reach into the hours your audience isn't reading, and the read-along player keeps the precision: listeners see exactly which sentence they're hearing, which matters when the sentence is a finding.
From summary to narrated explainer
Three steps, no microphone involved.
Paste the summary's link
Allmagine fetches the article and strips the page furniture. Google Docs and plain paste work too.
Pick a clear voice
Choose a narrator that reads measured and clean. About 1,000 characters becomes a minute, so a 900-word summary is roughly 5 minutes.
Embed it with the article
Paste the player snippet into the post, or share the narration's page alongside the paper link.
This is the player, live
The exact read-along player you'd embed. Press play and watch the text follow the voice.
Precision read-along
Dense material rewards synchronized text, so listeners can back up and re-read the exact sentence they just heard.
Sections as tracks
Longer explainers split into titled tracks — background, findings, implications — so listeners can jump straight to what they came for.
Access is the mission
Public narrations play free for anyone, no account, and one more barrier removed between research and the people it's for.
You're in charge
Every summary carries one setting — who can reach it — and you can change it whenever you like.
| Where it goes | Private | Unlisted | Public |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plays for anyone with the link | No | Yes | Yes |
| Embeds on your own site | No | Yes | Yes |
| Listed on Discover and your profile | No | No | Yes |
| Turns up in web search | No | No | Yes |
Useful while a paper is still under embargo or in review: narrate the summary now, keep it private or unlisted, and switch it to public on the day the work is out. Unlisted still plays for the colleagues you send the link to, and still embeds on a lab or department page.
What it costs, in summaries
Narration minutes are the only cost: a typical 900-word summary uses about 5 of them. Listening costs your audience nothing.
Free
$0
- 30 narration minutes every month
- 🎁 +60 bonus minutes when you sign up
- Your first month covers about 18 summaries
- Share and embed your narrations anywhere
Standard
$19/month
or $190/year, 2 months free
- Everything in Free
- 150 narration minutes every month
- About 30 summaries a month
- Premium narrator voices
- Purchased extra minutes never expire
Upgrade in-app whenever you outgrow Free
Questions science communicators ask
How does it handle technical terms?
The narrator reads terms as written. Common scientific vocabulary generally comes out right, but gene names, drug names, and Greek letters are worth a listen before you publish. For anything it gets wrong, pronunciation rules let you set how a written form should be spoken, and they apply to every narration you generate from then on, so a gene or an assay you correct once stays correct across the whole body of work. Regenerating a corrected track only re-spends that track's minutes.
Can I narrate summaries of open-access papers?
Summaries you wrote are yours to narrate. If you're narrating or adapting the paper's own text, follow its license: CC BY works require attribution (source, authors, license, and a note that the text was adapted for narration), which fits neatly in the narration's description.
What does regular publishing cost?
A 900-word summary runs about 5 narration minutes, so the free plan's 30 monthly minutes covers roughly 6 summaries; Standard's 150 covers a heavy publishing schedule.
Do listeners need an Allmagine account?
No. Public narrations play in full for anyone, in the embedded player on your site or on the narration's own page. Listeners only need a free account if they want to save things for later and keep their place in sync across devices.
What happens when I edit the text?
Update the narration's text and regenerate: only the tracks you changed are re-narrated, and only that text spends minutes. Unchanged tracks keep their audio.
Your next summary could reach ears, not just eyes.
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