ReadLoudly: PDF Text to Speech

Turn any PDF to audio. ReadLoudly is a text to speech PDF reader and PDF audio reader that reads documents, scanned pages and web articles aloud, highlighting each sentence as it speaks. Whether you want to read PDF aloud for class, listen to PDF chapters on your commute, or use a natural voice reader for long reports, ReadLoudly keeps your place sentence by sentence.

Read aloud with sentence highlighting
• Each sentence lights up as it is read, so your eyes and ears stay together
• Tap any sentence to start reading from there
• Reading speed from 0.5x to 2x
• Keeps playing with the screen off, with controls on the lock screen
• Make pages or text bigger with zoom and text size controls
• Flipbook view: read a PDF with page turns
• A PDF voice reader for long documents: turn a PDF to audiobook style listening

Natural AI voices and device voices
• Device voices from your phone's text to speech engine never use credits
• Natural voice reader options in two Pro styles, Standard and Natural, paid with credits
• Pro voices in English (US, UK, India, Australia), Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Polish, Hindi, Bengali, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese

Document scanner with OCR
• Built-in document scanner: scan paper pages with your camera; the page edges are found and cropped for you
• Enhance the scan so the text is clearer, and it opens in the PDF reader
• Text recognition (OCR) finds the words on scanned pages so they can be read aloud
• Scan text to speech also works on image-only PDFs that have no selectable text
• OCR languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Polish, Hindi and Bengali

Bring in what you want to hear
• Import PDF, EPUB and Word (DOCX) files into one voice reader
• Paste a web link and listen to the article
• Paste or type text, or open a .txt file
• Turn photos into one PDF
• Image to speech: photograph printed text and hear it read aloud

Chat with your PDF and study
• Ask questions about a document and get answers from its content
• Get an AI summary of a long document
• Take notes and add sentences to them while you listen to PDF files
• Bookmark pages and search inside a document
• Pick up where you stopped from the Home screen

PDF tools in the same app
• Split, merge and compress PDFs
• Rotate, reorder or number pages
• Sign a PDF by drawing your signature, or add a text watermark
• Protect a PDF with a password
• Save pages as images, or pull the pictures out of a PDF

Who it helps
Students working through readings and study notes, people who learn better by listening, readers with dyslexia or ADHD who focus better when they see and hear the text together, readers with tired eyes, and anyone who wants to read PDF aloud with a PDF audio reader that plays documents like an audiobook while walking, commuting or cooking.

Plans
ReadLoudly has a free plan with ads that appear after some tool results. Pro removes ads and includes credits for Pro voices. Device voices never use credits.

Questions or feedback: open Support in the app or visit readloudly.com.