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The text is read in reading order. Page numbers, headers and footers repeated on every page are left out.
Free tool
PDF to audio, read aloud by AI.
Drop in a PDF and listen to it instead of reading it: a report, a paper, notes for class or a book. The text is read in order, split into chapters at its headings, and each part is saved as an MP3 you can play on your phone, in the car or on a walk. The AI voice runs in this tab, so your PDF is never uploaded.
Reading
Each chapter appears with a player as soon as it is ready. The first time, the page downloads the AI voice (about 92 MB for English) and keeps it for next time.
Your PDF is read aloud in your browser. It is never uploaded.
How it works
From PDF to MP3s.
02 / Choose
Pick parts and a voice
Headings start new parts. Untick what you do not need, such as references, then pick one of 20 voices in nine languages.
03 / Listen
Play or save
Each part plays in the page as soon as it is ready. Save them one by one or all together in a ZIP.
Questions
Good to know.
Is my PDF uploaded?
No. The PDF is opened in this tab and the AI voice runs here too, so nothing leaves your computer. There is no account and no page limit.
Does it work with scanned PDFs?
Only if the PDF has real text. A scan is a picture of text: get the text out first with PDF to text, which has OCR, then paste it into the audiobook maker.
How long does it take?
It depends on your computer. In our test on a Mac the English voices made about one second of speech every two seconds, so 10 pages of about 5,000 words, around half an hour of listening, take about an hour. Keep the tab open; each part is ready to play as soon as it is made.
What about tables, pictures and maths?
Only the text is read. Pictures are skipped, tables are read cell by cell in the order the PDF stores them, and formulas may come out as letters and symbols. It works best on PDFs that are mostly sentences.
Which voices and languages?
The same voices as our text to speech tool: eight English voices, plus Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Arabic, Hindi and Bangla. Pick a voice that matches the PDF's language. Each voice's licence allows commercial use; some ask for credit, listed on the text to speech page.
Can I translate the PDF first?
Yes. Use the PDF translator, save the result as a PDF, then open it here with a voice in the new language.