article2audioListen to complex PDFs, charts and tables included
Upload a PDF or paste an article link, and listen to it read like a person who understands it: figures described, tables summed up, and headers, footers and page numbers skipped.
Your first 40,000 words are free. No card, and no trial that bills you.
Hear it before you sign up
A research paper and an article, narrated by article2audio. Listen for the figures, the tables and the lists.
Location, Location, Generation: Where You Ask Matters for Generative Engine Optimization
A 4-page paper on arXiv by Mahe Chen and Nick Koudas on how ChatGPT and Gemini change their sources depending on where you ask from. Skip to 12:45 to hear its tables summed up. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
The problem-solver’s playbook: 17 questions to sharpen your thinking
A post on Medium by Debbie Widjaja. Listen for the images, like the distracted-boyfriend meme a minute in. If you have a Medium membership, compare it with Medium's own audio version.
“I built article2audio because I listen to everything I read.”
Where a plain reader stumbles, we keep going
Textbooks, papers and reports are full of figures, tables and page clutter. That's where most read-aloud apps break.
Figures described
A chart or a diagram isn't skipped or read as “Figure 3.2”. You hear what it shows.
Tables summed up
Instead of fifty cells read one by one, you hear what the table tells you.
Code explained
Code blocks and pre-formatted text are explained in plain words, not spelled out symbol by symbol.
No page clutter
Headers, footers and page numbers are left out, and headings get a pause, so a chapter sounds like one piece.
Questions
Your first 40,000 words are free, on your own PDFs and articles. That is about 4 papers or 12 articles. You don't need a card. Every document shows its word count before you convert it, and the app shows how many free words you have left. If a document crosses the line, we finish it anyway, as long as it runs no more than 10,000 words over. A longer one, like a whole textbook, needs premium or extra words.
No. The free sample is not a trial, and we never have your card for it. When it runs out, you decide whether to subscribe: $99 a year or $11 a month, from Plan & Words in the app. You can cancel in one tap there too, and premium stays on until the end of the period you paid for. See pricing.
PDFs up to 100 MB and 1,000 pages, and articles: paste a link, or upload a saved HTML page. They all go into one library. It works best with nonfiction, like textbooks, research papers, reports and articles, where there are figures and tables to describe.
Figures and images are described, so you hear what a chart shows instead of “Figure 3.2”. Tables are summed up instead of read cell by cell. Running headers, footers and page numbers are skipped. The descriptions and summaries we add don't count against your words.
On premium, we finish the document anyway, as long as it runs no more than 40,000 words over what you have left. The extra words are on us. If you need more in a busy month, extra words are $5 per 50,000 and never expire.
Press play on any document in the app, on your phone or computer. On a phone, add the app to your home screen and it works much like a native app.
Not yet, only the web app. You can add it to your phone's home screen, and it will look and feel much like a native app.
English only, for now.
Two American English voices: one female and one male.
The audio is for your own listening. The rights stay with whoever owns the text, so unless that's you, you need their permission to share the audio files.
Email article2audio@proton.me from the address you sign in with. We delete your account, the files you uploaded, their text and their audio within 30 days. If you have a subscription, cancel it first in Plan & Words, or ask us to. Billing records are kept as long as tax law requires. See the privacy policy.
Premium. Ask within 14 days of a subscription's first payment and we refund it, minus the words you converted, at your plan's own rate ($11 per 150,000 words on monthly, $99 per 1,000,000 on yearly). If you converted nothing, you get everything back. After that, cancelling stops the next renewal and premium stays on until the end of the period you paid for. If you cancel a yearly plan later on, you can also ask for the whole months you haven't started to be refunded, and premium ends then. A plan's unused words don't roll over.
Extra words. Words you bought and haven't used are refunded at the price you paid, at any time.
Email article2audio@proton.me and say what you would like refunded. This doesn't limit any rights you have under consumer law.
Simple pricing, no trial that bills you
Your first 40,000 words are free. Then $99 a year
That's about $8.25 a month, or $11 if you pay monthly. Cancel in one tap.