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We occasionally write in-depth blog posts to share what we've learned while building Paper2Audio.
Covers of 5 classic books (The Age of Innocence, Shakespeare's Sonnets, A Tale of Two Cities, Wuthering Heights, and Crime and Punishment)
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Back to School Free Reads: Classic Literature for AP English

Lindsey Golden • 9/1/2026

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