Turns on your microphone. Then just talk over the book — no button to hold.
Asking questions and adding books need the judges’ access code. It’s in the Playhead submission on lablab.ai. Listening is open to everyone.
00:00 / 00:00
Your notes
Your questions get pinned to the spine at the moment you asked them — a map of where the book lost you.
Say any time
- “Wait, what did that mean?”
- Explains what you just heard
- “What’s this book about?”
- The whole thing, before you commit
- “Take me to the part about…”
- Jumps the book to a topic
- “Carry on”
- Cuts the answer short, back to the book
- “Go back”
- Rewinds thirty seconds
- “Say that again”
- Repeats the last answer
- “Where am I?”
- Where you are, and what’s happening
You stopped at 00:00 last time.
Your books
Try one of these
Or add your own
Playhead transcribes the audio with AssemblyAI, cuts it at the reader’s own pauses, and embeds each passage against its timestamp — the same index the shipped book uses. A chapter takes a minute or two. Try any recording from LibriVox: open a chapter on archive.org and copy the direct MP3 link.
- Pick a book from the library
- Enable asking questions
- Talk over it whenever something doesn’t land