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Book2Speech vs Paper2Audio
Paper2Audio: Document-to-speech app that turns PDFs, ebooks, papers and web articles into audio, skipping page numbers, footnotes and citations. Book2Speech does one thing and does it thoroughly: it turns the books you own into audiobooks, with chapters, a narrator you choose and a file you can keep.
Choose Paper2Audio if…
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A generous free plan: 56 hours of new audio a week.
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Built for papers: reader view with tables, figures and math, and skips footnotes, citations and page numbers.
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Offline listening on the mobile apps, and a native Android app.
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A sleep timer that can stop at the end of a chapter or document.
Choose Book2Speech if…
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Any book, not just the bestsellers that got an audiobook: fewer than 1 in 100 books ever does.
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Unlimited free listening in English with Standard voices, no trial clock.
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A real audiobook file to keep: M4B with chapters and cover, or MP3. One is included on the Free plan.
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Built for whole books: the book’s own chapters, a start past the front matter, page clutter left out of PDFs.
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265 narrators in 42 languages, and 70,000 free classics ready to play.
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Paid plans from $4.99 a month.
Switching takes a minute
Your books are files you own. Drop the same DRM-free EPUB, PDF or Word file into Book2Speech, pick a narrator and carry on listening. Nothing to migrate.
Prices in USD on 2026-10-07. The pricing page shows $16/month with annual billing (“Save 20%”); the US App Store lists Plus Monthly $20.00 and Plus Annual $191.99.
Formats from the vendor FAQ: PDF, EPUB, HTML, TXT, DOCX, DOC, RTF and Markdown; the App Store adds scanned documents. MOBI is absent.
Plus subscribers can download audio files, which the FAQ says are M4A (Opus); MP3 and M4B are not named, so export is shown as not verified.
The FAQ describes voices “optimized for … pronunciation accuracy” but no pronunciation editor.
Questions people ask
Is Book2Speech a good Paper2Audio alternative for books?
If you mostly listen to books, yes: it keeps the chapters, skips the front matter, lets you download an M4B or MP3, and English listening with Standard voices is free and unlimited.
Is Book2Speech cheaper than Paper2Audio?
Book2Speech starts free and its paid plans start at $4.99 a month. Paper2Audio: Plus $20/month or $191.99/year on the US App Store ($16/month billed annually on the pricing page): 168 hours a week, audio and transcript downloads.
Is Book2Speech free?
Yes: unlimited Standard voices in English and 10 minutes of Premium voices, one book of your own and one audiobook download, plus 70,000 free classics.