PDF Voice Reader: Read Aloud

PDF Voice Reader reads your PDF documents out loud. Open a book, a study guide, a report or a scanned page and listen while you commute, cook, exercise or rest your eyes. Text to speech uses the voices already on your phone, so listening works offline, with no account and no upload.

Great for students, busy professionals, language learners, people with dyslexia or low vision, and anyone who would rather listen than read.

READ ALOUD, PAGE AFTER PAGE
• Tap Play and the app keeps reading to the end of the document, turning pages for you
• The sentence being read is highlighted on the page, so you can follow along
• Start from any sentence with Read from here
• Skip forward or back a sentence or a paragraph
• Pause and resume exactly where you stopped, even days later
• Listen with the screen off, with play and pause in the notification and on the lock screen

YOUR VOICE, YOUR SPEED
• Adjust reading speed and pitch
• Choose any voice and language installed in your phone's text-to-speech engine
• Skips repeated headers, footers and page numbers so the reading flows
• Pronunciation fixes: tell the app how to say names and abbreviations (Pro)

SLEEP TIMER
• Reading stops by itself after the time you choose
• Perfect for listening to a book in bed

SCANNED PDFS AND PAPER PAGES
• Scanned PDF with no text? Recognize the text on the page (OCR) and listen. 3 pages per document are free
• Unlimited OCR, and camera reads of a book page, a letter or a handout (Pro)
• Text recognition runs on your phone

PDF TO AUDIO (PRO)
• Save a document as an audio file (WAV) to listen in any player

READING QUEUE (PRO)
• Line up several PDFs and listen to them one after another

LISTEN TO ANYTHING YOU HAVE AS A PDF
• Textbooks and lecture notes before an exam
• Novels and e-books in PDF format
• Research papers, reports and contracts
• Manuals, articles saved as PDF and printed letters you scan

WHO IT IS FOR
• Students who want to listen to textbooks and lecture notes while walking, commuting or reviewing for an exam
• Readers with dyslexia, low vision or tired eyes who find it easier to follow a highlighted sentence by ear
• Language learners who hear a text read aloud at a slower speed while reading along

QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK
• Does it read the next page by itself? Yes. Text to speech continues across pages until the end of the PDF.
• Can I stop and come back later? Yes. Each file remembers where you stopped.
• Does it work offline? Yes, as long as your phone's voice for that language is installed.
• Can it read a scanned PDF? Yes, with on-device OCR. 3 pages per document are free.
• Which languages can it speak? Any language your installed text-to-speech voices support.

FREE AND PRO
Listening with automatic page turns, sentence highlighting, speed and pitch, voice choice, the sleep timer, listening with the screen off, resume and OCR for 3 pages per document are free. The free version may show ads, never while audio is playing. PDF Voice Reader Pro removes ads and adds PDF to audio export, unlimited OCR and camera reads, pronunciation fixes and the reading queue. Choose a monthly, 3-month or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices vary by country, and subscriptions can be cancelled any time in Google Play. You can also watch a short video for a 2-hour Pro Pass.

HONEST ABOUT VOICES
PDF Voice Reader uses the text-to-speech voices on your phone (for example Speech Services by Google or your phone maker's engine). It does not use cloud or AI voices, so there is nothing to upload and no per-minute fee. Voice quality and available languages depend on the voices you have installed.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account or registration
• Documents are read on your phone and never uploaded
• No "All files access" permission: the app uses the Android file picker
• Ads use an advertising ID, see our privacy policy

Install PDF Voice Reader and turn your PDFs into something you can listen to anywhere.

Recent changes:
First release of PDF Voice Reader.
• Reads your PDF aloud page after page, with the sentence highlighted
• Listen with the screen off, resume where you stopped
• Speed, pitch, voice choice and sleep timer
• OCR for scanned pages
• Save as audio (M4A) to listen anywhere
• Word-by-word highlight
• Read aloud from any app's text menu