Notes from Yomite
Voice releases, engineering posts, usage guides, and Japanese literature picks. Everything happening where reading meets speech synthesis.
How to Find Untranslated Japanese Web Novels Worth Reading
Fan translations lag 6–12 months behind serialization. Here's a practical workflow for finding great untranslated Japanese web-novel series: which ranking pages to trust, how to judge a novel by its tags, and how to read ahead of the translation.
The Japanese TTS reader you actually own — offline, one-time purchase, no subscription
Tired of cloud TTS subscriptions that expire the moment you stop paying? Yomite is a fully offline Japanese text-to-speech reader you buy once and own forever on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
How to Fix Japanese TTS Misreadings: The Pronunciation Dictionary Guide
Japanese TTS apps mispronounce fantasy character names and author-invented kanji constantly. Here's exactly why it happens and how to fix it permanently with a per-novel pronunciation dictionary — includes a starter list of common misreadings.
Your Reading Year, By the Numbers — Yomite's Year-in-Review Dashboard
Yomite's Year-in-Review dashboard turns a year of listening into shareable stats, earned badges, and real motivation to keep going. Here's how to use it.
Best Japanese TTS Voice for Light Novels — A Genre-by-Genre Casting Guide
Isekai, romcom, cultivation, horror, fantasy, slice-of-life, mystery, comedy, romance — a practical guide to choosing the right voice and style from Yomite's 30+ voices and 101 styles by light-novel genre.
Listen to any web article — paste a URL into Yomite's Web Reader
Tutorial for Yomite's Web Reader. Paste a NHK, Nikkei, note, Hatena Blog, or Qiita URL — the body text is extracted and read aloud. No ads, no comments, no clutter.
Listening to Aozora Bunko — a complete guide from download to playback
How to use Yomite's built-in Aozora Bunko reader. Search, download, favourites, voice picking — turn Sōseki, Dazai, Akutagawa, and Miyazawa Kenji into audiobooks.
Meet all 30+ voices — personality, styles, and when to use each
A character-by-character tour of every voice in Yomite. With novel-genre recommendations, style-switching tips, and casting ideas for narration projects.
Introducing Yomite — an offline Japanese TTS reader with 30+ voices
Today we're launching Yomite for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. 30+ Japanese character voices, all running 100% on-device. No cloud, no API keys, no upload.