Paper2Audio: Text to Speech

Paper2Audio: Text to Speech

PDFs, Docs & Books Read Aloud

784 ratings
173 reviews
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Released
May 29, 2025
Updated
November 5, 2026
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Listen to your documents, articles, and ebooks with advanced text-to-speech technology. It intelligently skips irrelevant content and summarizes visual elements, making learning hands-free and productive. Enjoy natural voices and a familiar interface for an enhanced listening experience.

✓Reads PDFs, webpages, ebooks, .docx, .txt
✓Summarizes math, code, tables, and figures
✓Intelligently skips junk text and ads
✓High-quality, natural text-to-speech voices
✓Document summarization and context addition
✓Highlighting, notes, and table of contents navigation
✓Adjustable playback speed
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What's New in Paper2Audio

2.74

November 5, 2026

We have updated the app to improve your listening experience! What's new: - Add up to 20 documents at once, with progress for each file - Keep the spoken line centered with a new auto-scroll option - Choose whether playback skips by sentence or paragraph - Control automatic offline-audio downloads on each device - Rate and report Ask AI responses, and expand grouped sources - More reliable Ask AI access and saved listening progress - Improved Browse controls, download reliability, and Library annotation counts - Request a missing language or retry with the correct language - Bug fixes and UI improvements

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User reviews

Amazing

I’ve tried SO many different methods to convert my PDFs to audiobooks…this is the ONE! I’d usually have to convert to PDF to OCR manually which took forever and there would still be errors. By the time I finally finished and turned to readable file into an audiobook, the narration would be robotic and difficult to understand and follow along. With Paper2Audio it’s literally seamless with tones of customization features, as well as the ability to download the audio directly to my phone. As a PDF hoarder and avid reader, I absolutely love this app!
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Response from developer

Thanks for your feedback! I'm glad that our app is working well for you. Please email us if you ever have more feedback to share. Joe, Paper2Audio Founder

Really Useful and Polished

I’m super happy with this app. Instead of streaming each sentence to an api for audio it converts the entire document (book, pdf, etc.) into an audio file. It’s not the absolute highest quality you can get from a text to speech ai these days, but it sounds good enough to listen to an entire light novel using it and it’s cheaper than the fancier options. The app itself seems well made and is much less buggy than some competitors I’ve tried. Overall really great
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Response from developer

Thanks for your detailed feedback Wino66878887! I'm glad you're enjoying listening via Paper2Audio. We specialize in reading an entire document, and parsing it for accurate narration. Please email if you have any questions or further feedback. Joe, Paper2Audio Founder

Love It

Can’t afford it

Rare generous service

Great service, fairly solid voices, a lot of capacity for free users. Thanks Paper2Audio

My go-to for reading fanfic

I have tried MANY text to speech and audiobook type apps, this is the best one I’ve found that lets me turn a pdf from a fanfic website like ao3 into an audiobook that I can listen to while I’m doing chores. It’s not glitchy. It is excellent even if you’re on the free version, which is still what I use now. Very generous upload limits (for longer fics). The narration is great. I can also leave notes and highlights/bookmarks easily. It’s easy to organize your documents into folders and archive certain ones you don’t want to see in the main list anymore. Highly recommend.
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Response from developer

Thank you for your kind and detailed feedback! I'm glad you're enjoying our app and many of our features. Please email us if you ever have more feedback. Joe, Paper2Audio Founder

User experience

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Reported Bugs

1 issue

Occasional issues with chapter/section detection in long documents

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Requested Features

4 requests

Add support for footnotes and citations

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Implement custom pronunciation dictionary

Feature

Improve handling of multilingual content

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Expand compatibility to more file formats

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FAQ

What does Paper2Audio do?

Paper2Audio transforms your written content, including research papers, ebooks, and web articles, into spoken audio. It uses advanced text-to-speech technology to read the text aloud, making it possible to learn and consume information hands-free.

What are the key features of Paper2Audio?

Key features include support for various document formats like PDFs and .docx, intelligent skipping of clutter such as page numbers and ads, and the summarization of complex elements like math equations and tables into plain language. It also offers high-quality voices, document summarization, note-taking, and adjustable playback speeds.

Is Paper2Audio free to use?

Yes, Paper2Audio is 100% free with a generous limit of up to 56 hours of audio generation per week. The app is also free of ads, providing an uninterrupted listening experience.

What devices is Paper2Audio compatible with?

The description does not specify device compatibility. However, as a mobile application, it is designed to run on smartphones and tablets that support its operating system (typically iOS or Android).

How can Paper2Audio help me be more productive?

This app turns your commute, workout, or any downtime into productive learning time. By listening to your documents hands-free, you can absorb information without needing to actively read, allowing you to multitask effectively.