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Heed the Prophets is a free player for talks given by apostles and prophets. It holds the Journal of Discourses: 1,349 talks given between 1839 and 1886, with AI narration of each one being added now. Until the narration is in, Read ↗ opens each talk’s text.
Report a problem
A mispronounced name, a wrong date or speaker, a talk that won’t play, or anything else: please write.
For a talk, include its title or its JD reference (for example JD 5:120) and about where in the talk (for example 12:30). It also helps to say which device and browser or app you were using.
About the narration
No recordings were made of these talks; they survive as reports taken down in shorthand and printed. Each one here is read aloud from the printed Journal of Discourses by a computer-generated voice. It is a synthetic voice, not the speaker’s own and not a copy of it. Each speaker is given one stock voice so you can tell them apart. Every recording begins by saying it’s narrated by an AI voice, and the list marks each one AI narration.
The computer voice may mispronounce some names and places. Reports help fix them.
Read ↗ opens each talk’s printed text on BYU’s Scripture Citation Index.
Your progress
- Where it’s saved: on this device only, in this browser or in the app. Each browser and device keeps its own.
- Moving it: at the bottom of the main page, Export progress saves a small file and Import progress loads it in another browser or on another device. Importing never un-checks anything.
- What erases it: clearing your browser’s cookies and site data, or closing a private-browsing tab. On iPhone and iPad, Safari can also erase it after 7 days of using Safari without opening this site. Adding the site to your Home Screen (Share → Add to Home Screen) and opening it from there largely avoids that. Exporting now and then keeps a copy safe.
Listening tips
- ▶ plays a talk and then continues down the list, skipping talks you’ve checked off. + Queue adds a talk to the end of the queue.
- A talk is checked off when it plays to the end. You can also tick it yourself.
- The download button saves a talk’s narration as an MP3 file you can keep.
- Speeds run from 1× to 3×. On a computer, Space plays or pauses, ← and → go back 15 or ahead 30 seconds, Shift+← and Shift+→ go to the previous or next talk, and [ and ] change the speed.
- On iPhone, audio keeps playing with the screen locked, but Safari may pause the page itself, so moving on to the next talk by itself is less dependable there than on a computer.
Is it free?
Yes: no ads, accounts or purchases, and nothing about you is collected (see Privacy).