It is a service that adds AI voice to book text, providing a new reading experience where you can deepen your understanding both visually and aurally during multitasking times like commuting or doing housework.

Why is Smartbooks needed?

In a time when reading habits are declining in Japan, it was developed to support efficient knowledge acquisition for modern people who have not lost time but have changed how they use it.

How does Smartbooks differ from existing audiobooks?

Unlike simply listening, Smartbooks aims for deeper understanding and higher learning effectiveness by following the text with your eyes while listening to the audio, including charts and diagrams.

Knowledge in Your Time.

Published Apr 1, 2026 5:10 PM ・ Updated Jun 13, 2026 11:53 PM ・ 2 min read ・ Source: PR TIMES

Smartbooks Inc., through April Dream, announces its vision for "Smartbooks," a service that adds audio to books. Aiming to redesign access to knowledge in Japan, where reading habits are declining, it offers a new reading experience that fosters deeper understanding through simultaneous audio and text during "multitasking time" such as commuting or housework.

🔳 Redesigning Access to Knowledge by Adding "Voice" to "Words" in Books.

Our company supports April Dream, an initiative to make April 1st a day for sharing dreams. This press release is the dream of Smartbooks Inc. (Representative Director: Henli Aiuchi).

We are announcing the future we want to realize.

■ The Challenge: Not "Cannot Read," but "Stopped Reading"

In Japan, it is said that about half of the population does not read even one book a month.

However, this does not mean that "more people cannot read."

It means that "more people who can read have stopped reading."

🔳 Is Your Time Just Flowing Away?

■ We Have Time. The Way We Use It Has Just Changed.

During commutes, travel, and housework.

We already spend a lot of time.

However, that time is often replaced by other information, such as social media and videos, rather than "time spent on knowledge."

If that time were to transform into time for understanding, thinking, and acting,

Reading would surely return to our daily lives.

■ Knowledge in Your Daily Life with "Multitasking"

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Knowledge in Your Time.

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🔳 Redesigning Access to Knowledge by Adding "Voice" to "Words" in Books.

■ The Challenge: Not "Cannot Read," but "Stopped Reading"

🔳 Is Your Time Just Flowing Away?

■ We Have Time. The Way We Use It Has Just Changed.

■ Knowledge in Your Daily Life with "Multitasking"

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