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Experience The Great Gatsby Hear the full cast For publishers

A woman with headphones relaxes on a sofa, eyes closed and smiling. From the open book in her lap, a 1920s jazz party spills out.

Ariadne

One book. Every way to read and experience it.

Ariadne is a reader app for everyone and a publishing tool in one. Publishers bring a book; Ariadne turns it into text, a full-cast performance and a conversation, in any language, for sighted, blind and low-vision readers alike.

Free for readers to try. Open to publishing partners.

How it works

Listen

Any book, fiction or non-fiction, performed by a full cast of voices.

A man on a sofa with an open book in his lap, speaking into his phone.

Ask

Talk with the book: ask about a character, go back to a chapter, or change language mid-page.

Hands resting on an open illustrated book showing a country path, a stone wall and a cottage.

See

Images, covers and illustrations become rich spoken descriptions. Text is translated faithfully into the reader's language, spoken or on the page.

Why Ariadne

Full-cast voices
Every character has their own voice, personality and emotions.
Any language
Read, listen or ask in your own language, and switch mid-page.

Atkinson Hyperlegible
Ariadne’s reader is available in a typeface designed for low-vision readers, so I, l and 1 never blur together.
Equal for all
Sighted, blind or low-vision, everyone gets the same book, in the way that suits them.

Multi-voice performance

Not just a single narrator.
A full cast with voices and personalities.

Ariadne gives every character their own voice, personality and emotions. Our proprietary story graph engine keeps each one true to context, from the first page to the last. Next, we’re moving beyond books to creating complete digital worlds.

Every scene illustrated, voiced and translated

Write once. Publish in any language.

Reader screen: an illustrated night party at Gatsby’s mansion; Lucille whispers to a man in glasses. The card reads Chapter 3, with Lucille’s line voiced alongside Nick’s narration. — EnglishLucille · Nick Carraway Two voices in one paragraph, chapter 3

Reader screen: Daisy, in a pale dress and pearls, lounges on a white sofa as curtains blow in. The card shows Nick’s narration from chapter 1. — EnglishNick Carraway Daisy’s drawing room, chapter 1

Reader screen: Gatsby in a tan three-piece suit leans on his cream roadster by the water. The card shows Nick’s narration in Swedish, chapter 4. — SvenskaNick Carraway Gatsby’s roadster, chapter 4

Reader screen: Gatsby’s Art Deco mansion at night, a figure in the doorway. The card shows Nick’s narration in Simplified Chinese, chapter 7. — 简体中文Nick Carraway The mansion at night, chapter 7

The cast

Nick CarrawayNarrator
Warm, observant, quietly ironic
Jay GatsbyThe host
Polished and hopeful, with a careful edge
Daisy BuchananHis lost love
Light, musical, restless
Tom BuchananHer husband
Heavy, blunt, impatient
Jordan BakerThe golfer
Cool, dry, amused

Cover art for The Great Gatsby, read by Ariadne: an Art Deco silhouette of a couple dancing.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Listen to The Great Gatsby, performed by Ariadne

Read and listen with illustrated scenes, in five languages.

English · original
Suomi
简体中文
Español
Svenska

Try the web demo

Apps coming soon to iPhone and Android

How it works

A team of specialist agents

Emerging AI lets us give people human abilities, and some superhuman ones: every language, a photographic memory, perfect hearing, keen sight. Our agents work together in real time to do it.

Perceiver

Builds a layered picture of the content's source, intent and context, and stores it as story graphs.

Language Translator

Translates each element faithfully, in context, from the original language into the reader's.

Modal Adapter

Turns text, audio and images into the form each reader needs.

Presenter

Like the storytellers of the past, it performs the book, answers questions and listens to feedback.

Accessibility, for readers and publishers

Every reader you reach, and every rule you meet, in one step

Designed to help publishers meet the European Accessibility Act, Directive (EU) 2019/882.

For readers

Any book, in the way you read best

Experience it in any language, any format, and switch on the go
Works fully with VoiceOver and by voice alone, with no screen needed
Every image, cover and illustration described aloud
One screen, four gestures: tap to listen, swipe to turn, pinch to resize, hold for the menu
The reader app is available in Atkinson Hyperlegible, a typeface designed for low-vision readers

Try it free

For publishers

New readers, new revenue, one catalogue

Global reach from day one: any language, any market, unlocking new licensing and partnership revenue
Move from book publishing to creating complete world models: characters, places and voices that live beyond the page
Reach blind and low-vision readers in every language
Build a defensible position: formats built on new patents, giving your catalogue an edge competitors can’t easily copy
Since June 2025, the Act requires e-books sold in the EU to be accessible: Ariadne helps you comply

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