Hear awkward wording
Listening to a draft makes missing context, tone problems, and repeated phrases easier to catch before sending.
Read-aloud
Text-to-speech for desktop: read any selected text aloud.
Peanut is a desktop TTS app for macOS and Windows. Highlight text and listen back while reviewing notes, specs, long threads, drafts, or dense reading that is easier to process by ear.
Use it for
Docs, support threads, release notes, PRs, drafts, research, and dense messages.
Control
Choose supported voices, providers, and playback speed.
Memory
Replay useful sessions from history when you need to hear them again.
Rest your eyes
Use audio for long text when staring at the screen is slowing you down or competing with other work.
Pick the voice path
Use supported OpenAI or ElevenLabs options, including your own keys where provider control matters.
TTS workflows for listening to text
Moment
Screen-only
With Peanut
Draft review
Scan visually and miss tone
Listen before sending
Long thread
Skim and lose details
Hear the thread while preparing a reply
Technical spec
Read line by line
Listen through context and pause for notes
Accessibility
All text stays visual
Use audio as part of a lower-friction workflow
Text-to-speech should connect to dictation.
Most dictation apps focus only on speech-to-text. Peanut makes text-to-speech, listen-back review, and dictation part of the same daily desktop loop.