Paper2Audio - Text to Speech

Paper2Audio

About this app

Paper2Audio is a free text to speech audio app that reads aloud your PDFs, research papers, ebooks, web articles and text documents, and plain text, turning complex reading into clear audio you can listen to anywhere.

Paper2Audio’s text to speech (TTS) reader technology intelligently skips clutter like page numbers, footnotes, citations, and more. It summarizes figures, tables, and math so you can focus on what matters. Convert your documents and pdfs to audio to turn your commute, workout, or chores into productive learning time by listening to your documents hands-free.

Key features:

• Read PDFs, web pages, EPUBs, .docx, .txt, scanned documents and copy-pasted text
Turn your ebooks into audiobooks and your pdfs to audio to read text out loud

• High quality text to speech voices
Enjoy natural text to voice with engaging and realistic voices that make hours of listening engaging and easy to follow, including for people with visual impairments or learning challenges like dyslexia or ADHD.

• Reads documents aloud with summaries of visual elements
Summarizes equations, code, tables and figures in plain language instead of confusing symbol-by-symbol narration

• A smarter voice reader that cuts junk text you don't want to hear (page numbers, references list, ads, etc.)
Our text reader skips the clutter and focuses only on the meaningful content

• Read and follow along while the audio reads text out loud with Reader View
Reformats your documents for easier readability on small screens and shows images, math, formatting, and word-level highlighting in sync with the audio.

• Highlighting and notes
Keep track of key text with highlights and add your own notes

• Familiar UI similar to a podcast or audiobook app
Jump right in with an intuitive interface you already know how to use

• Table of contents to select a section
Navigate instantly to any section that interests you most without endless scrolling

• Read text aloud at your own speed with playback speed control from 0.5x to 4.0x in 0.05x increments
Find your perfect listening pace whether you're a speed listener or prefer to savor every detail

• Scan and read documents aloud
Upload scanned PDFs and turn them into listenable audio.

• Screen reader compatible and dyslexia-friendly fonts

Pricing:
Paper2Audio is a free audio document reader (up to 56 hours of audio generation per week) with no ads or annoying stuff. Paper2Audio Plus, our paid tier for business users, has higher limits and allows for audio file exports.

Terms of use: https://www.paper2audio.com/terms-of-use
Privacy: https://www.paper2audio.com/privacy

Ratings and reviews

paper2audio has replaced every other audiobook app I've tried. The voices sound genuinely human, the interface is clean and intuitive, plus it has text highlighting while reading. 56 hours of audio generation per week is more than enough for me. Most TTS engines sound robotic, or drop weird pauses mid-sentence. None of that here. It flows like a real person is reading to you. Simply the best.

Paper2Audio is a blessing for dyslexia and/or anyone who writes lyrics. Its is really useful to hear out-loud what you’ve committed to paper. I feel very fortunate to have come across this FREE no strings app. It’s adaptable to a number of uses but I love to listen to my lyrical writing. It gives me confidence in my word choices. And the developer only asked that you forward it on for your friend(s) to use well. Now, that’s a first, an app that works!

Interface is easy to use, voices are clear, speed option is awesome. Occasionally mispronounces words and some of the image descriptions are simplified from what the image actually is, which is understandable. Very clear this was made with education and studying in mind. I have recommended this to a lot of people already.

What’s new

We have updated the app to improve your listening experience! What's new:
- New DM Sans typography matching the website
- Fixed math symbol rendering in transcripts
- Bug fixes and UI improvements