Read any PDF aloud, free
Open a PDF in Chrome, press play, and Read It To Me reads it to you with natural voices. Get through research papers, ebooks and long reports with your ears instead of your eyes — no sign-up, no word limit on the built-in voices.
Add to Chrome — free
Listen to a PDF the way you listen to a podcast
Open the PDF, press play, keep going. Pause when you need to, pick up where you left off.
Open a PDF, press play
No converting, no uploading to a website. Open the PDF in Chrome and Read It To Me starts reading it aloud.
Built for long PDFs
Research papers, textbooks and ebooks. Pause and resume, and follow the highlighted sentence so you never lose your place.
Natural voices
Clear voices you can listen to for a full chapter — not the flat robotic kind that make you give up after a page.
Reads it in your language
Translate the PDF and listen in your own language, not just the one it was written in.
Private on-device voices
The built-in voices run in your browser, so your PDF does not have to be uploaded to be read aloud.
Free, no word limit
Read whole PDFs with the built-in voices for free. No sign-up, no card, no cap that stops you mid-chapter.
A free PDF read-aloud tool, minus the friction
Most "read PDF aloud" tools make you upload the file or hit a free-word limit. This just reads it, in your browser.
Read PDF aloud — FAQ
How do I get a PDF read aloud for free?
Install Read It To Me in Chrome, open your PDF in the browser, and press play. It reads the PDF aloud with natural voices for free, with no word limit on the built-in voices.
Can it read long PDFs like research papers?
Yes. It reads the selectable text in a PDF. Long PDFs like research papers and ebooks work well — you can pause, resume and follow the highlighted sentence.
Does it also read other files aloud?
Yes. Besides PDFs it reads articles, Google Docs, Word files, Kindle books and email.
Is reading PDFs aloud private?
Pick a voice that runs on your device and your PDF text never has to be uploaded to be read aloud.
More ways to listen
Listen to your next PDF
Add Read It To Me to Chrome, open a PDF, and press play.
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