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ReadLoudly is a free online PDF reader that turns your documents into natural-sounding audio, summarizes them, and lets you chat with your PDFs, all in one workspace.
Opens in the ReadLoudly reader. Free, no signup.
Hear the voices before you listen
Read PDFs aloud, convert DOCX and EPUB to PDF, compress PDF files, read scanned documents and turn eBooks into flipbooks. Free online, fast and secure.
Listening to your PDF documents hands-free is simple with ReadLoudly. Have plain text instead? Paste it into the free text to speech tool.
Choose the PDF you want to listen to and upload it to ReadLoudly.
Open your PDF and jump to the page you want to hear.
Hit play and let ReadLoudly read your PDF aloud—hands-free.
Voice Device, AI voice
Your file is read on our servers to pull out the text. A guest upload is removed after about 24 hours; signed in, you can keep it in your private library.
1,892 natural AI voices across 40+ languages
How ReadLoudly reads a PDF aloud: each sentence highlighted, natural voices at your speed, and the same reader on your phone.
Upload a PDF and press play; each sentence is highlighted as it is read aloud.
Use the free voices on your device, or 1,892 AI voices on paid plans.
Works in Safari and Chrome on iPhone and Android, with nothing to install.
With ReadLoudly.com, you can easily upload any PDF document and read.
Choose the voice, speed and tone that fit the way you listen.
Once you're done reading or listening you can easily share.
Chat with PDFs, adjust voice, and translate to your language.
You don't need to download any software or plugins to use.
One upload becomes a tutor lesson, quizzes, flashcards, notes and a podcast.
Students, researchers and professionals use ReadLoudly to listen to PDFs and eBooks, chat with their documents and study faster.
Total reach — everyone who has opened a document with ReadLoudly, not accounts created.
Real ratings and reviews from people using ReadLoudly, shared on our website with their permission.
Lamees Ibrahim (Student)
Text to Speech
Excellent — high quality.
Frank
Text to Speech
Excellent — a great experience overall.
“Your book is a fusion of real-life and invention; it’s a biography that blurs the lines between truth and myth. At its core, it’s about a mythomaniac—a person who compulsively constructs grandiose stories, and yet, these stories hold a strange, almost magical authenticity. But there is another dimension to this mind: the solipsistic mind, which places the self at the center of its own universe, where reality is constantly interpreted, reconstructed, and sometimes reinvented through the individual's consciousness. The outside world becomes inseparable from the inner world, and the boundary between what exists and what is imagined becomes wonderfully unstable. You take the reader through fragmented episodes—some in your own life, others in invented worlds—shifting from a private, almost claustrophobic void to vast, cosmic possibilities. The solipsistic dimension adds another layer: the world is not simply observed; it is experienced, questioned, and recreated from within the mind of th”
Kevin Were
Read Aloud
Excellent — easy to use, accurate and high quality.
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Quick answers about voices, file formats, plans and your account.
Yes. Open the PDF in your browser on ReadLoudly to read it or hear it read aloud. There is nothing to install, and no account is needed to start.
Upload the PDF, pick a voice and press play, and ReadLoudly reads it aloud like an audiobook in your browser: free with your device's voices, or with 1,892 premium AI voices on paid plans.
Yes. It is a document reader for EPUB, DOCX, TXT, MOBI and more, plus photos and scans through OCR. Each format has its own reader page.
ReadLoudly is an AI-powered text-to-speech platform that converts PDFs, EPUBs, and documents into natural audio using 1,892 premium AI voices across 40+ languages. It works entirely in your browser — upload a file, choose a voice, and listen. Features include PDF chat, highlighting, bookmarking, dark mode, and PDF tools like merge, split, and compress.
Sign in at readloudly.com using your email or Google account. Guest access is also available — you can upload and listen without an account, though your library and settings won't be saved. Logged-in users get a personal dashboard with saved books, preferences, bookmarks, and highlights saved to your account and available when you sign in on any browser.
Yes. Enter a recipient's email address in the share dialog and they receive instant access to the shared book. No account is required for the recipient to view it.
Open the Bookmark tab on your dashboard to see all highlights and bookmarks across every document. Each entry links directly to the page and position where you made it. Highlights and bookmarks are saved to your account and available when you sign in on any browser.
Our support team is here to help you get the most out of ReadLoudly
Not a PDF? Pick the document reader out loud built for your file.
Opens .docx files without Microsoft Word, reads tables cell by cell and skips reviewer comments.
Opens DRM-free EPUB 2 and EPUB 3 books and jumps to any chapter from the table of contents.
Reads UTF-8 and legacy-encoded files, including Cyrillic, Arabic and CJK text, and pauses at every blank line.
