A full table read, just you
You want to hear the scene out loud. Every character voiced. Every beat, every shift in power, every silence between lines — performed, not imagined. A complete read-through of the script with a cast that sounds like real people.
Oteria gives you that. Assign a distinct voice to every character, shape each delivery with audio direction, and listen to your scene the way it was meant to be heard. Alone in your room, on your schedule, as many times as you need.
A voice for the character
Oteria’s curated voice library covers the range you need for a convincing scene read-through. Warm and nurturing. Sharp and authoritative. Young, old, measured, volatile. American, British, and beyond. Each voice carries a distinct character — not a generic text-to-speech tone, but a presence you can cast against.
Connect your own ElevenLabs account to choose available voices from your personal library, subject to that account’s plan and limits. Cast your actual scene partner’s voice if you’ve cloned it with consent. Cast your own voice as a reference track.
Shape every delivery
Short delivery cues let you try a particular pause, tone or emphasis. Treat the result as one possible reading, not a substitute for the choices you will make with the cast and director.
DETECTIVE: [softly] I know what you did. SUSPECT: [laughs nervously] You have no idea. DETECTIVE: [whispers] Try me.
Whispers, shouts, laughter, sighs and pauses can bring variety to the dialogue. Listen back and adjust cues that feel out of place; the results vary between voices and passages.
Per-character speed control
Not every character speaks at the same pace. Slow a voice down for a character who carries gravitas in every syllable. Speed another up for the nervous energy of someone who can’t stop talking. Oteria lets you set playback speed independently for each character in the cast, so the rhythm of the scene read-through feels organic rather than machine-even.
Bring a scene
Paste text directly from your sides, a Google Doc, or an email. Drop a PDF. Photograph a printed page with your phone and Oteria extracts the dialogue automatically. Standard screenplay format, CHARACTER: line format, character names in caps — all recognized out of the box.
Messy formatting? One click runs AI cleanup, restructuring the text into castable dialogue. Check the result against your original before running the scene.
Not a script? Listen anyway.
Oteria doubles as a prose reader. Paste any passage — a novel chapter, an article, a monologue from a book you’re adapting — pick a voice, and listen. No character assignments, no casting. Just beautiful audio from text.