High-accuracy narration for research papers, ebooks, web articles and other text, no matter how complicated.
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Jun 5
Free audiobooks!
Summer reading is more fun when you don’t have to sit still to do it, so we’re giving Paper2Audio readers audio access to six classic public domain books: three adventure picks and three romance picks.
ALT Book covers of Pride and Prejudice, Treasure Island, The Blue Castle, The Call of the Wild, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and Jane Eyre
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Jun 5
We might start doing themed free reads monthly--any topic requests?
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Jun 5
Check out the full list and links to the free audiobooks on our blog:
paper2audio.com/posts/june-f…
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Jun 5
These free titles are pre-converted to audio and won’t count toward your weekly audio generation limit. Just click any of the document links, then click “Save for later” at the top of the document to add it to your listening queue.
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Jun 5
The collection includes shipwrecks, treasure hunts, wilderness survival, sharp social comedy, slow-burn longing, and big emotional payoff. Listen while driving on a road trip, lying on the beach, weeding the garden, or just trying to make the most of a sunny afternoon.
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Jun 1
“Just highlight the words as they’re read” sounds simple for text to speech document processing until the document has equations, citations, Roman numerals, and formatting that shouldn’t be read aloud literally.
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Jun 1
The result is that users can see the rich original document, hear a natural spoken version, and still get accurate highlighting as the audio plays.
Try Paper2Audio with one of our demo documents and see Reader View highlighting in action, or upload your own document.
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Jun 1
The post explains how Paper2Audio solves this with a reconciliation algorithm that runs after audio generation, using matching words as anchors and then mapping mismatched sections like equations, citations, formatting, and Roman numerals back to the visible text.
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Jun 1
Example: a document might have a section labeled “Part III,” but the TTS model may read “Part III” as “Part 3.” That means the visible text and spoken text do not match, but the highlight still needs to move through the audio transcript at the right time.
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Jun 1
We create a new spoken version for the TTS model while still showing formatting from the original document in Reader View. That creates a challenge for word highlighting because audio timestamps come from the audio version, but highlights need to match the enhanced transcript.
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Jun 1
In our latest Paper2Audio engineering blog post, we go behind the scenes on a surprisingly tricky part of building Reader View, our enhanced audio transcript: keeping word-level highlighting accurate when the text users see in the transcript is not the same text read aloud.
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May 26
May updates from Paper2Audio!
*Citation removal for EPUBs*
Footnote references and content are now stripped from EPUB audio narration for cleaner listening for academic and non-fiction books. This was previously only available for PDFs.
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May 26
*Bug fixes @ UI improvements, part 3*
-Fewer unintended pauses in the narration.
-Bugs related to autoplay not advancing to the next document, some documents getting stuck during processing, issues with transcript syncing across clients, foreign character narration, and more.
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May 26
*Bug fixes & UI improvements, part 2*
-Switch between grid and list layout in the document library and collections on desktop.
-Exported and copied highlights now include PDF page numbers to help more easily find the passage in the document when referencing it later.
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May 26
*Bug fixes and UI improvements, part 1*
--Playback now rewinds 3 seconds when resuming after a long pause, so you never lose context.
--Live countdown ETA with real-time estimated completion for documents in processing.
--Faster audio downloads on iOS when the app is open.
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May 26
*Push notifications from the app when your document is ready*
Get notified that your document is done processing even when the app is closed, so you don't have to wait on the processing screen.
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May 26
*Better handling of visual elements*
-Captions from figures and tables in PDFs are now displayed below visual elements in Reader View.
-Improved accuracy of AI-generated summaries for figures, tables, code blocks, and math equations in PDFs.
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May 26
*Narration improvements*
-Math subscripts and superscripts are spoken more naturally not being read out literally.
-Abbreviation pronunciation, including common abbreviations.
-Roman numeral detection more accurately reads things like "III" as "the third"
--Better header removal
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May 21
Today (May 21) is the 15th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), a yearly event spearheaded by the GAAD Foundation to get more people talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion.
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May 21
If you use Paper2Audio for accessibility-related reasons and the Plus plan would better meet your needs than the free plan, please contact us by email (contact@paper2audio.com). We offer accessibility discounts and would be happy to share more information.
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May 21
We know accessibility is an ongoing commitment and we’re continuing to improve Paper2Audio so more people can comfortably read, listen to, and learn from the documents that matter to them.
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