Features

What Drishan does when it reads a page, and what you can change. Where a feature is only in the iPhone app or only in the Chrome extension, it says so.

Reading the page

Finds every bubble, in reading order

Drishan finds the speech bubbles, captions and narration boxes on the picture and reads them in the order a person would: top to bottom on a vertical webtoon, and right to left on Japanese manga when you choose that direction. Side-by-side bubbles are read in the right order rather than by which sits a little higher.

Follows your scrolling

It reads the part of the page you are looking at and keeps up as you scroll. If you scroll back up, it can read a line again; if you jump ahead, it starts from where you are. Long chapters that load as you go are read as they appear.

Skips what isn't story

Credits pages, site watermarks, page numbers and translator notes are recognised and left out, so you hear the story rather than the website.

Reads lettering in many scripts

Latin, Korean, Japanese and Chinese lettering is read, including Japanese written in vertical columns. Small reading marks beside Japanese characters are left out so they are not read twice.

Voices and acting

A cast for every series

Drishan works out who says each line and gives every character a voice that fits: a man, a woman, a child, an older person. The same character keeps the same voice for the whole series, even when the AI describes them differently on a later page. Open the cast list to hear each voice and change it.

Lines are acted, not just read

A shouted line is louder, a whisper is quiet, a sad line is slower. Laughs, sighs, gasps and screams written in a bubble are played as the sound itself rather than read out as words.

A natural voice on your device

Drishan includes Kokoro, a natural-sounding voice that runs on your own phone or computer. It reads English, Hindi, Spanish, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese and Mandarin with its own voices; other languages use the voices built into your device. Plans add premium AI reading and voices on top.

Fix a line yourself

If a line is misread or given to the wrong character, correct the words or the speaker. Your correction is remembered for that series.

On the picture

The word being read is lit

Each word is highlighted on the drawn lettering as it is spoken. The rule we keep: the words you hear are shown on the picture itself, not repeated in a separate box. Captions are there if you want them, one tap away.

Translation drawn into the bubble

When you read in another language, the translated words are lettered into the bubble in place of the original, so the panel still reads like a comic. Switch the language in the middle of a chapter and reading carries on from the same line.

Sound and mood

Sound effects from the lettering

Drawn sound words such as CRASH, BAM or ドン play as sounds. A flash of light can play a sparkle, footsteps play footsteps, and sounds that are only drawn for effect stay silent.

Music that follows the scene

Quiet background music follows the mood of the chapter, calm, tense, sad or romantic, and dips under the voices so every line stays clear. Turn it off at any time.

Ways to read

Cinematic mode (Chrome extension)

A full-screen stage that moves through the chapter panel by panel, following the dialogue like a camera, with the voices and sound around it.

Video dubbing (Chrome extension)

For a video that has subtitles, Drishan can read them in character voices, in the original language or translated, and turn the original voices down while a line plays.

Your own pages

Open comic pages saved on your device, or a picture, and have them read the same way.

Clip maker (iPhone app)

Turn a scene into a short voiced clip to share. Free clips carry a small Drishan mark; Plus clips do not.

Your account

Sign in with a one-time code sent to your email; there is no password to remember. Your cast choices, corrections and plan follow your account between the iPhone app and the extension. You can delete the account and its data at any time from the app or by writing to support@myind.ai.