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Research papers
Attention Is All You Need
Ashish Vaswani et al. (2017)
Voices: Narrator (F), Orator (M), Interviewer (M)
The foundational paper for modern AI. Includes table, figure and math summaries, removal of in-line and endnote references, and the "additional context" feature.
Job Market Signaling
Michael Spence (1973)
Voice: Teacher (M)
"Long summary" of a landmark economics paper about workers using education as "signaling" inherent ability for a job, reducing listening time by 87% while still conveying the key details.
Webpages
Dad Joke
Wikipedia (2025)
Voice: Teacher (M)
Wikipedia article with Image summaries, footnote and reference list removal, and only converting article text (not entire webpage layout).
Pericles' Funeral Oration
Thucydides (circa 400 BCE)
Voice: Orator (M)
Classic oration about Athenian democratic values, including header, footer and endnote removal.
Books
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
Voice: Counsellor (M)
The most famous Sherlock Holmes story. Converted from EPUB with expressive narration and table of contents for easy navigation.
Candide
Voltaire (1759)
Voice: Adviser (F)
Timeless witty satire. Converted from EPUB showcasing handling of classic prose, French names and natural narration.
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Who is Paper2Audio for?
Everyone! Paper2Audio helps you understand documents by creating accurate and enhanced audio versions of them.
Use cases:
- Listen to documents in your reading queue, with the option to auto-play the next document.
- Listen when you find it hard to focus on reading or you learn better that way
- Listen when you don't have enough time to read or need to multitask
- Listen because you enjoy it more
Listening strategies:
- Understand more than the abstract: listen in summary mode.
- Understand the paper pretty well: listen in full paper mode.
- Understand the paper really well / review the paper: listen to the paper first, then read it while taking notes.
Listening advice:
- Find your optimal playback speed–Paper2Audio offers 0.5x-3x speed. Too slow may be boring and make it hard to pay attention. Try increasing speed over time. A faster speed helps you listen to more documents. Adjust your speed for some documents (or sections). Slow down to understand difficult documents or speed up for less challenging ones.
- Listen during activities that require your time, but not your full attention. Good activities that support listening: driving, doing dishes or laundry, cleaning, walking, traveling, exercising, dressing, brushing your teeth and yard work.
- Listen to your own papers, articles or books to proofread them. You may find issues your eyes gloss over.
- Listen in summary mode when you don't need to know all of the details but want to understand more than the abstract.
About Paper2Audio
Paper2Audio is a project started by Joe Golden and Chandradeep Chowdhury.
Who is using Paper2Audio:
- Professors and graduate students at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia, MIT and other universities
- AI researchers at startups and large companies
- Doctors in a variety of specialties
- Corporate litigators and other lawyers
- Teachers preparing lesson plans and accessibility materials for their students
- People with ADHD, dyslexia, blindness and other software accessibility needs
- High school students from around the world
Testimonials:
"As someone who struggles with solo reading, having my documents, books, and articles read aloud in clear, natural voices has been a game‑changer. The interface is simple, the playback quality is great for long listening sessions, and it handles different file types effortlessly."
- iOS app reviewer
"I've tried a ton of different paper to speech apps, and they all struggle with academic papers - often including footnotes or other unnecessary features, and always turning into a mess when a table, figure or equation shows up. This is the first app I feel I can genuinely trust to accurately read a paper to me, and I love it. Thank you so much!"
- email feedback
"I'm a senior in high school who was recently diagnosed with ADHD, although I presume the most interesting thing about me is that I have never read a book in my life… until I discovered Paper2Audio. I have never been so consistent and motivated in my reading prior to finding your website. It's almost a miracle, at this point. At this point, reading feels like a game to me, and not in the willy-nilly, mindless way, but in the "how much information can I retain at this listening speed" way. As a result, I actually retain the things I read now."
- email feedback
"The voice is very natural. It avoids reading stuff in headers and footers. It saves me so much time allowing me to get through papers while I'm on the move. I submitted a request and real kind humans responded. If you're not using this to read papers, you need to start because others are going to out read you bro"
- iOS app reviewer
Our sci-fi inspiration from The Matrix
Team
Paper2Audio is made by Joe Golden and Chandradeep Chowdhury.
Joe is an entrepreneur and economist. Paper2Audio is his second startup. His first was Collage.com, an e-commerce site for photo printing where he was co-founder / CEO, which sold in 2021. He taught the Stanford MBA class The Business of AI in 2024, and previously was a software engineer at Microsoft and an economist at Google and Upwork. His PhD in economics is from the University of Michigan. Joe loves listening to podcasts, audiobooks, and more recently, research papers.
Chandradeep is a software engineer with a math background. He previously worked on AI applications at Amazon AWS. His MS in Computer Science is from Cal Poly. Chandradeep loves listening to audiobooks, and more recently, research papers.
We want your feedback
We'll use it to make Paper2audio a better service! Please share feedback: Joe@paper2audio.com. Be critical and channel your inner R2:
