Paper2Audio - Text to Speech

Paper2Audio

About this app

Paper2Audio reads your research papers, ebooks, web articles and other text to you. Paper2Audio’s text-to-speech technology intelligently skips clutter like page numbers and table data. It summarizes figures, tables, and math so you can focus on what matters. Turn your commute, workout, or walk into productive learning time by listening to your docs hands-free.

Key features:

• Supports PDFs, webpages, ebooks, .docx, .txt, and copy-pasted
• Reads documents to you with summaries of visual elements: summarizes math, code, complex equations and tables/figures in plain language instead of confusing symbol-by-symbol narration.
• Cuts junk text you don't want to hear (page numbers, references list, ads, etc.): Skip the clutter and focus only on the meaningful content that matters to your understanding.
• High quality text-to-speech voices: Enjoy natural, engaging voices that make hours of listening comfortable and easy to follow.
• Summarize document option: Get the key insights in minutes when you need a quick overview before diving deeper.
• Add context option: Add term definitions and a background briefing to learn less familiar material.
• 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.
• Original document and audio transcript views: Follow along visually when you need to see figures, equations, or specific text references.
• Playback speed control from 0.5x to 3.0x in 0.1x increments: Find your perfect listening pace whether you're a speed listener or prefer to savor every detail.

Pricing:
Paper2Audio is 100% free (up to 56 hours of audio generation per week) with no ads or annoying stuff.

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

Ratings and reviews

Reddit pointed me to this app and what a great discovery that has been! Very generous free plan and surprisingly realistic voices. I'm impressed! the Orator voice is currently my favorite for reading epub files. As someone who likes to write books, it's nice to be able to hear my work played back for editing. The one feature I'd love to have would be a way to turn on the ability to have footnotes played. one of my books uses footnotes heavily and those are the best parts in my opinion.

I really love the app. The only minor thing that I can think of is that the voices don't always have the correct emphasis or make a pause too short, ect. but the voices are very enjoyable overall and sound very good. 56hrs a week of free converting is actually an insane amount and I don't think I'll actually ever use that up. One suggestion for an update I have that would be epic, is to be able to set different voices to different people. Keep up the good work, and thanks for a great app!

I'm really enjoying the Paper2Audio app! The voice quality is great and the 20K word limit for web articles is a good start. However, I’d love to see that limit increased a bit in the free version to accommodate longer long-form articles. Also, adding OCR (picture-to-text) for physical book pages would be a total game-changer for offline reading. Keep up the great work!

What’s new

We have updated the app to improve your listening experience! What's new:
- Added accessibility labels to transcript images
- Fixed sentence skip not working across sections when paused
- Fixed document list not scrolling to newly added documents
- Fixed table of contents showing corrected pronunciation text instead of original headings
- Bug fixes and UI improvements