WikiReader

WikiReader is a lightweight web app that turns Wikipedia articles into spoken audio using either offline browser based speechSynthesis or OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini-tts. It fetches articles via the official Wikipedia REST API, parses them and reads them aloud in near real-time.

How it works

• Choose your playback option.
• Paste a Wikipedia article URL and click Fetch Article.
• The app fetches the main article text via the Wikipedia public API and parses it.
• Uncheck "Read introduction only" if you want the whole article to be read.
• Browser's build-in support is local and free. For OpenAI you need to provide your own OpenAI API key. Note: API key is only used for TTS request and is not stored. Cost of TTS depends on the article length and is billed directly by OpenAI from your account.

Getting Started

• Run npm install to install dependencies.
• Run npm run dev to start the development server.

🚧 Note

This project is built with SvelteKit and TypeScript and is under active development. Expect bugs!

Current plans include a text-to-speech pipeline, Wikipedia article fetching and parsing, audio caching, usage tracking, login with basic/full tiers, and production-ready deployment.