Listen without losing your place
Upload a PDF, choose where to begin, and listen with a free voice while each sentence is highlighted on the page. Move between sentences, paragraphs, and chapters, and adjust the reading speed.
Your PDF is stored privately for 30 days after your last visit. Delete it anytime from the reader or My Documents.
Free voices are available with an account. Text-based PDFs only.
PDF READER PREVIEW
Sign in, choose a text-based PDF, and start from the chapter or sentence you need. The interactive reader will become available after upload.
field-notes.pdf
PRIVATEA better way to stay with the page
Long documents ask us to hold a map in our heads: where we are, what came before, and which idea deserves another look.
Listening can make that map easier to follow.
The reader keeps the original page in view while the spoken sentence is gently marked, so your eyes and ears move through the document together.
12The PDF stays visible while you listen. The current sentence is highlighted on the original page and the reader follows your place automatically.
Keep diagrams, page numbers, footnotes, and surrounding text in view.
Select a sentence on the page instead of waiting for the whole document.
Your page and sentence position are saved to your account.
Listen slowly for study, speed up familiar material, and choose from the free public voices currently available in DocsToAudio.
Use Edge voices without spending credits. An account is still required to upload and read a PDF.
This reader currently uses free public voices. Additional voice options can be added in a later release.
Go from a PDF file to synchronized reading in four steps.
Sign in and choose a text-based PDF from your device.
Use the table of contents, a page, or a sentence on the document.
Pick an available free public voice and set the reading speed.
Listen while the current sentence is highlighted and the page follows along.
The reader opens the page you need first and prepares nearby pages as you move. It does not wait for every page to finish parsing before you can begin.
LISTEN AWAY FROM THE SCREEN
What works today, when an account is required, and how your private PDF is handled.
Yes. Upload a text-based PDF, choose a starting point, and listen while the original page remains visible.
Yes. Free Edge voices do not use credits, but you still need a DocsToAudio account to upload and read a PDF.
Yes. Uploading, opening the private reader, using a free voice, and saving reading progress all require sign-in.
Yes. You can choose a PDF outline entry, navigate to a page, or select a sentence as your starting point.
Yes. The free Edge voices use timing data to highlight the current sentence while it is spoken.
Yes. Choose an available free public voice and use speeds from 0.75× to 2.0×.
Not yet. PDFs made only from scanned images require OCR. The first version supports PDFs that already contain selectable text.
Your PDF is stored privately for 30 days after you last open it. Opening it again restarts the 30-day period. You can permanently delete it at any time from the reader or My Documents. Incomplete and failed uploads are removed after 24 hours.
Playback switches to the new location and audio prepared for the previous location is cancelled where possible.
Yes. The PDF remains the main view, with the contents in a drawer and playback controls fixed near the bottom.
Language availability depends on the selected voice. The voice picker shows compatible languages before playback.
