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Listen to your documents. Accurately.
High-accuracy narration for research papers, ebooks, web articles and other text, no matter how complicated.
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Paper2Audio Plus is a paid subscription for professional users offering additional premium features, including higher audio generation limits and larger file size limits. Visit our pricing page for more information.
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Features
Built for academic and professional documents, not just plain text.
Accuracy
High-accuracy audio for complex documents that standard text-to-speech can't parse.
Visual element summaries
Tables, figures and math explained with summaries, not read out loud.
Productivity features
Choose your pace and depth, and take notes as you go.
Navigation and Organization
Navigate with table of contents, organize documents into collections and search your library.
Text removal
Cut footnotes, references, page headings and other non-essential text for cleaner audio flow.
Reader Mode
Reformats PDFs for readability on your phone or desktop and includes images inline.
Accuracy
High-accuracy audio for complex documents that standard text-to-speech can't parse.
Visual element summaries
Tables, figures and math explained with summaries, not read out loud.
Productivity features
Choose your pace and depth, and take notes as you go.
Navigation and Organization
Navigate with table of contents, organize documents into collections and search your library.
Text removal
Cut footnotes, references, page headings and other non-essential text for cleaner audio flow.
Reader Mode
Reformats PDFs for readability on your phone or desktop and includes images inline.
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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 text-to-speech app with high-quality realistic voices for all types of documents, especially text with complicated formatting such as research papers, books, news articles, or scanned documents. Visit our About page for more information about our mission and team.
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.
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!
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, reading feels like a game to me.
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. If you're not using this to read papers, you need to start because others are going to out read you bro
Contact us
You can reach us by email at contact@paper2audio.com. Or, check out our discussion communities on Reddit or Discord, or our social media pages for news and updates:
Frequently asked questions
Paper2Audio is a text-to-speech tool available on the web, iOS and Android that accurately converts academic papers, ebooks, web articles and other text into high-quality audio so you can listen on the go. Paper2Audio has both free and paid versions.
Just upload your document, pick an audio type (Full Text, Long Summary, or Short Summary) and an optional context level, then our AI will read the paper to you.
Paper2Audio is for everyone, but is especially useful for university professors, industry researchers, doctors, lawyers, students, people with accessibility needs, or anyone who prefers listening to dense technical content, articles or ebooks rather than reading it.
Paper2Audio is free for individual personal use. A paid subscription (the 'Plus' plan) is required to use Paper2Audio for professional purposes. See the Pricing page for more information about the Free and the Plus plans.
It's purpose-built for research papers, ebooks and web articles. For papers, it is better at handling equations, references, tables, figures, and domain-specific jargon. For ebooks, it is better at detecting chapters accurately and skipping extra content. For web articles, it does a better job skipping extraneous content and summarizing visual elements. Its summaries are not simulated podcasts—they're more information-dense and optimized for learning.