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We occasionally write in-depth blog posts to share what we've learned while building Paper2Audio.
Compilation of book covers from Paper2Audio's July summer reads (The Great Gatsby, Federalist Papers, Franklin's Autobiography, Scarlet Letter, Association Football, Eighty Years and More, Common Sense, O Pioneers, American Indian Stories, Behind the Scenes (or 30 Years a Slave), and Civil Disobedience)
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July Free Reads: Happy Birthday America!

Lindsey Golden • 7/7/2026

Diagram comparing hallucinated and accurate audio outputs from Vision OCR, showing hallucinated text error for a rotated page and correct interpretation.
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Fixing rotated PDFs before they become bad text to speech audio

Yuvraj Motiramani and Chandradeep Chowdhury • 6/11/2026

Compilation of images from 6 book covers (Pride and Prejudice, Treasure Island, The Blue Castle, The Call of the Wild, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and Jane Eyre)
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June Free Reads: Summer Escapes

Lindsey Golden • 6/4/2026

Graphic showing "x^2" as one visual unit being converted to "x squared" as two spoken words, an example of the mismatch between visual representation and spoken word in text to speech conversion.
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Making text to speech word highlighting work for complex documents

Chandradeep Chowdhury and Safal Dhamala • 5/18/2026

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Review of text to speech models for reading research papers

Joe Golden and Chandradeep Chowdhury • 4/21/2025