How Drishan reads a chapter
From the moment you open a page to the moment you hear it, in the order it happens.
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You open a chapter
On a comic site you already use, in the iPhone app's browser or in Chrome with the extension, or from pages saved on your device. Drishan only works with the page you have open.
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It finds the words on the picture
The text in each bubble and caption is read from the image. On the iPhone this happens on the phone. With a plan, our AI reading is also used for the hardest pages, which is the part plans pay for.
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It works out who is speaking
Each line is matched to a character, with how they say it: calm, angry, whispering, laughing. A character met before keeps the voice they were given the first time.
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It translates, if you asked it to
The lines are put into your language and lettered into the bubbles in place of the original.
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It reads, in order, as you scroll
Lines are voiced a moment before you reach them, so speech starts without a wait. Each word lights up on the picture as it is said, with sound effects and music around the voices.
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It remembers the series
The cast, your corrections and your voice choices are kept, so the next chapter sounds like the last one.
What a chapter means here
Plans are counted in chapters because that is how you read. One chapter is 1,000 words read aloud: a typical webtoon chapter is about one. A very long chapter counts as more than one; reading a chapter again soon after does not count twice.
What stays on your device
On the iPhone, finding the words and speaking them happens on the phone. Pages are sent to our servers only for features that need them, such as our AI reading with a plan, and only the part being read. The iPhone privacy policy and the extension and website privacy policy list every case.