Slow English FM is a free live radio in easy, slow English. It plays world news, stories, English guides and music, day and night. On slowenglish.fm, you can listen and read the words on screen at the same time.

It is for beginners who know some basic English, for intermediate learners, and for anyone who wants to listen to easy English every day. The sentences are short, the words are common and the voices are calm. When a harder word is important, the presenters explain it.

Yes, it is free. There is no account and no sign-up. Press “Listen live” and the radio starts.

The voices speak at about 130 words per minute or slower. That is calmer than most news on radio or TV. The accent is American English.

Yes. On the live page, a prompter shows the sentence on air and highlights each word as it is spoken. On a phone, the words appear above the player. After the first broadcast, every programme has a full transcript: tap a sentence to hear it again.

Yes. AI chooses the stories, writes the scripts, checks them and reads them with synthetic voices. People designed the rules, the sources and the checks, but no journalist writes or reads each bulletin. See how it works.

Every fact comes from a published source, and every programme lists its sources with links. A story needs two independent publishers or one official source. A separate AI check compares each script with its sources and removes anything they do not support. AI can still make mistakes, so for anything important, open the source links.

From more than 50 news feeds by over 20 publishers, including BBC News, The Guardian, NPR, PBS News, Al Jazeera, France 24, DW, Le Monde, CBC News, CNA and NASA. The weather uses data from Open-Meteo. The full list is on the About page.

No. Maya, Alex, the columnists and the other presenters are AI characters with synthetic voices. They keep the same names and voices every day, so you can recognise them. Meet the presenters.

The news does not: facts are attributed to their sources. Commentaries are clearly introduced as commentaries, and stories are always presented as fiction.

Full news bulletins play several times a day, and short news flashes play at most other hours. Weather, sport and technology updates come when there is real news. The schedule shows today’s exact times in your own time zone.

On air, the time is announced in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), because listeners are all over the world. On this website, every time is shown in your own time zone, so you never need to convert it.

Yes. After its first broadcast, every programme goes to Listen again, with its transcript and sources. Before that, you can only hear it live.

No. The player stays at the bottom of the screen and keeps playing while you move around the website.

Yes. Open the stream address https://slowenglish.fm/live.mp3 in any audio player that plays internet radio, for example VLC.

Yes. On twitch.tv/slowenglishfm you can watch the live radio with the words on screen, a globe that shows where each story happens, and the weather.

Yes. Between the news, you can hear stories in easy English, short English guides to listen and repeat, longer programmes and music. New programmes join the station over time.

No. The stories are fiction about everyday life, written in easy English. They are always presented as fiction, separately from the news.