# Paper2Audio: Text to Speech

> Quickly add papers, articles, ebooks and other text to Paper2Audio. Paper2Audio reads your research papers, web articles, ebooks and other text to you. Fast, easy and free.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/paper2audio](https://chrome-stats.com/d/paper2audio)

## Overview

- **ID:** `paper2audio`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Paper2Audio
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 314
- **Weekly downloads:** 23
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.8.13
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-08
- **First published:** 2025-04-11
- **Size:** 425 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/paper2audio/)
- **Website:** [https://www.paper2audio.com](https://www.paper2audio.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/paper2audio/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/paper2audio/privacy/)

## Description

Paper2Audio reads your papers, ebooks, PDFs, and web articles aloud, with a focus on research learning. It automatically skips clutter like page numbers, ads, and references, and it can summarize figures, tables, and math into plain language. Choose natural voices, adjust playback speed from 0.5x to 3.0x, and listen hands-free to turn commutes or workouts into productive study time.

Key features include support for PDFs, webpages, ebooks, .docx, and .txt; a table-of-contents navigation; an option to add context such as term definitions; original document and transcript views for reference; and a quick summarize option for overviews. The familiar podcast-like UI makes it easy to jump in, and the extension is free with no ads.

## Rankings

- #6,504 — Overall
- #15 — text to speech
- #16 — speech
- #18 — speech to text
- #55 — udio
- #94 — audio

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `activeTab`
- `scripting`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `<all_urls>`
- `https://paper2audio.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/paper2audio)