Listen to your documents. Accurately.

Listen to your documents. Accurately.

High-accuracy narration for research papers, ebooks, web articles and other text, no matter how complicated.

Get started here. Free, not a limited trial.

Generous free plan (no ads)
56 hours per week of audio
More accurate than other text-to-speech readers, especially for complex documents
Better at narrating abbreviations, numbered lists, symbols, decimals, etc.
Cuts junk text
Page numbers, references list, footnotes, ads, headers/footers, etc.
Summarizes figures, tables, and math
No orphaned figure captions, tables read line-by-line or crazy math narration
High quality voices
Syncs automatically to all your devices with offline playback
Available on the web, iOS, and Android
Paid plan for professional users with higher limits and premium features

Supported content

PDFPaper PDFs
PDF BookPDF Books
EPUBEPUB books
Web PageWeb articles
Word DocumentWord docs
TextPlain text

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Research papers

Web articles

Books

Plus Plan

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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Read along with the document

Transcript view

View the AI-enhanced transcript

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How to use Paper2Audio

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."

- 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

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:

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