Just the words
Book2Speech reads the text you would read: headings, paragraphs, lists and quotes. Scripts and styling are ignored, and headings become chapters, which suits long single-file books like Gutenberg’s HTML editions.
Listening in three steps
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Drop your file above, or choose it. It opens in seconds.
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Play a few narrator samples and pick the one that fits the book.
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Press play. Sign in or create a free account, and chapter one starts right away.
Save it right, hear it clean
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Save from your browser’s reader view to leave menus and sidebars behind.
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Choose “Web Page, HTML Only”. The extra assets folder isn’t needed.
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Join a multi-page serial into one file, and it plays as one book with chapters.
Made for whole books
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265 narrators in 42 languages. Hear the samples, pick one, switch any time.
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Chapters you can jump between, with a suggested start past the title pages.
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Read-along text that follows the narrator sentence by sentence.
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Speed control, a sleep timer and bookmarks.
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Your place syncs across the web, iPhone and iPad, and Mac (Windows coming soon).
Questions people ask
Can I paste a link instead of a file?
Save the page as an HTML file from your browser (File → Save Page As) and drop that file. It takes a second.
Why did my saved page come out empty?
Some pages load their text with JavaScript or behind a login, so the saved file has no article in it. Save from reader view, or paste the text into a .txt file.
Can I download my HTML file as an MP3 or M4B?
Yes. Choose Download audiobook and you get one file with chapters, cover and book details, as M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV. English books can be narrated free with Standard voices, and books in every language with Premium voices, from your plan’s Premium hours.
Is it free?
Yes, in English. Standard voices are unlimited on every plan, Free included. Free also gives you 10 minutes of Premium voices, one book of your own and one audiobook download. Listener includes 3 downloads, Premium 15 and Ultra unlimited, along with more books and Premium hours.