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4.91,000+ reviews30,000+ installs

Listen to your documents.Accurately. On any device. For free.

High-accuracy narration of research papers, ebooks and web articles in natural, high-quality voices, no matter how complex.

56 hrs/week free
No ads
No junk text
Cross-platform sync
Not a limited trial
No credit card

4.91,000+ reviews30,000+ installs

High-accuracy narration of research papers, ebooks and web articles in natural, high-quality voices, no matter how complex.

56 hrs/week free
No ads
No junk text
Cross-platform sync
Not a limited trial
No credit card

One home for all your documents

Free text to speech to read aloud PDF, EPUB, HTML, TXT and Word documents.

Accurate narration: abbreviations, numbered lists, symbols, decimals and more.
Intelligent summaries: images, figures, tables, math and code.
No junk text: page numbers, frontmatter, references, footnotes, ads and headers removed.
Citation removal: inline citations stripped for smoother listening.
Smart navigation: an auto-generated table of contents to jump around.

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Preview our natural-sounding AI text to speech voices

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Features

A text to speech reader 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 View

Reformats PDFs for readability on your phone or desktop and includes images inline.

What you can do with 56 hours of free text to speech

Most free text to speech readers give you a few hours a month, or a few days’ trial that wants your card. Here’s what every single week looks like instead.

Read aloud text, PDFs, EPUBs and web articles — completely free. Paper2Audio is a free AI reader and PDF text to speech reader with natural AI voices, no ads, no paywalled voices and no credit card.

Your documents, anywhere you go

Read aloud your documents on web, iOS and Android, with your library and listening progress synced automatically. For free.

Apps

iOS

Android

Browser extensions

Chrome

Firefox

Edge

Our browser extension lets you add documents in just a couple of clicks, even pages behind paywalls, with no download needed.

What our users think

Why students, professors, lawyers, engineers, AI researchers, teachers and users with accessibility needs pick Paper2Audio over other text to speech apps.

This is honestly a life saver. I have ADHD and have difficulty reading words off a page. My job requires a LOT of reading, so I have been fooling around with TTS apps for a while and they can be very expensive. This has delivered a better product that is easier for me to set up than competitors, automatically converting only relevant text. It also summarizes figures fairly accurately.

– iOS app reviewer

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 Store

This is honestly a life saver. I have ADHD and have difficulty reading words off a page. My job requires a LOT of reading, so I have been fooling around with TTS apps for a while and they can be very expensive. This has delivered a better product that is easier for me to set up than competitors, automatically converting only relevant text. It also summarizes figures fairly accurately.

– iOS app reviewer

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 Store

I think I've tried every text to speech app and Paper2Audio is the best. The voices are fantastic, it can handle web pages, PDFs and very large ePubs (I imported a 900-page ePub and it worked flawlessly) and I can listen offline, which I appreciate when hiking in areas without cell coverage. Highly recommended.

– 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

I think I've tried every text to speech app and Paper2Audio is the best. The voices are fantastic, it can handle web pages, PDFs and very large ePubs (I imported a 900-page ePub and it worked flawlessly) and I can listen offline, which I appreciate when hiking in areas without cell coverage. Highly recommended.

– 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

Best TTS Reader! Your app has been a game changer for me in my comprehension of academically difficult papers! I tried the same paper on some other top-rated apps (Speechify, Natural Reader, Eleven Reader) and they all garbled the scanned PDF I submitted. And the AI voices are top-notch. The option to switch easily between the original PDF and the transcript is very helpful.

– iOS app reviewer

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.

– Email

Best TTS Reader! Your app has been a game changer for me in my comprehension of academically difficult papers! I tried the same paper on some other top-rated apps (Speechify, Natural Reader, Eleven Reader) and they all garbled the scanned PDF I submitted. And the AI voices are top-notch. The option to switch easily between the original PDF and the transcript is very helpful.

– iOS app reviewer

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.

– Email

I have a brain injury which has affected my ability to be reading on screens, and I have never been able to find an accessible text to audio source that doesn't sound awful. This is such a valuable resource for me.

– Reddit user 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. If you're not using this to read papers, you need to start because others are going to out read you bro.

– iOS App Store

I have a brain injury which has affected my ability to be reading on screens, and I have never been able to find an accessible text to audio source that doesn't sound awful. This is such a valuable resource for me.

– Reddit user 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. If you're not using this to read papers, you need to start because others are going to out read you bro.

– iOS App Store

Need more hours or larger documents?

Plus and Enterprise scale our text to speech reader for power users and teams who need to convert PDFs, reports, legal documents and forms to audio at volume.

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Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about our free text to speech reader

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 complex documents, ebooks and web articles. For complicated documents like research papers, reports or manuals, 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. Our "Reader View" also reformats PDFs and other documents to fit your screen and allows you to easily read along while you listen by including tables, figures, images, math, and other inline formatting.

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“The ear is the avenue to the heart.”

Voltaire

Listen to your documents.Accurately. On any device. For free.

One home for all your documents

Research papers

Textbooks

Fiction

Web articles

Forms

Plain text

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Attention Is All You Need

Job Market Signaling

Dad Joke

Pericles' Funeral Oration

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Candide