Which languages and voices does it use?

English or German, chosen from the text itself. It prefers your device's higher-quality voices (premium, enhanced, natural, Siri or Google) when they are installed.

What speeds can I choose?

Normal, 1.25× and 1.5×. Before it starts, it estimates the listening time at about 170 words per minute.

How does it know what a repeated header or footer is?

On documents of three pages or more, short lines that repeat at the top or bottom of most pages are skipped.

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Read a PDF aloud (text to speech)

Have a PDF read to you by your device's own voices, with page numbers and repeated headers and footers skipped and words broken across lines rejoined.

Open Read aloud →Free · no sign-up · your file never leaves your browser

When you'd use it

Your eyes are tired and you want to hear a long report instead of reading it.
You want to listen to a course reading while cooking or commuting.
Someone with dyslexia wants a letter read aloud while following along on screen.

Just say what you need

There are no menus to learn. Drop your file on pdfagents.ai and type it the way you would say it:

“read this to me”
“read aloud from page 3”
“text to speech”

How it works

Drop the PDF.
Choose the starting page and the speed.
Listen; pause, resume or stop at any time.

Uses the voices built into your browser and device, so nothing is sent anywhere. It plays live; exporting an MP3 is on the wish list.

Questions

Which languages and voices does it use?: English or German, chosen from the text itself. It prefers your device's higher-quality voices (premium, enhanced, natural, Siri or Google) when they are installed.
What speeds can I choose?: Normal, 1.25× and 1.5×. Before it starts, it estimates the listening time at about 170 words per minute.
How does it know what a repeated header or footer is?: On documents of three pages or more, short lines that repeat at the top or bottom of most pages are skipped.

Guides

PDF text to speech: read a PDF aloud without the clutter

Private, and it keeps going

Your document is opened and saved on your own device, never uploaded. When the result is ready, type the next request (rotate, compress, add a password) and it applies to the result.

Read aloud, right now

The document read to you in a system voice, without page numbers and repeated headers.

Open Read aloud →

Doing this often? The free Mac app runs this agent on whole folders, offline, with no page limit. See the Mac app →