How Pashto is written
Pashto is spoken in Afghanistan and north-western Pakistan.
Pashto uses an extended Arabic alphabet with letters of its own, for example for its retroflex sounds, and Afghan and Pakistani spelling differ in places. Because Persian uses a similar alphabet, a short text can be taken for Persian.
What to upload
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EPUB, DOCX, TXT, HTML, RTF, MOBI, AZW3 or FB2 with real Pashto text, up to 10 MB and DRM-free.
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PDFs need a text layer: a scan of printed pages without one has no text to read. Try selecting a line of Pashto in the PDF: if you can copy it, there is text to read.
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Right-to-left text is read in its natural order; keep the file as Unicode text, as modern ebooks and word processors save it.
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No file? Paste a link to a web article and it becomes a book too.
From Pashto book to audiobook
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Drop your file above, or choose it. It opens in seconds.
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Book2Speech detects the book’s language from its text. A short or mixed text in Pashto can look like Persian. If the book opens with the wrong language, choose Pashto as the book’s language in the app.
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Pick a narrator. Premium voices read Pashto: play a few samples and choose the one that suits the book.
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Press play. Chapters, read-along text, speed, a sleep timer and your place synced between devices work as in every other language.
What Beta means for Pashto
Pashto is one of our Beta languages. Premium voices read it well, but the sound varies more from one narrator to the next than in our 42 main languages.
So play a sample with two or three narrators before you start a long book, and keep the one whose Pashto sounds right to you.
Keep your Pashto audiobook
Choose Download audiobook and get one file with chapters, cover and book details, as M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV. Pashto books are narrated with Premium voices, so a download uses your plan’s Premium hours. Play it in Apple Books, any audiobook app or the car, offline.
Questions people ask
Can Book2Speech read Pashto aloud?
Yes. Pashto is a Beta language: Premium voices read it, and quality varies more by voice than in our 42 main languages. Drop a book and hear it in seconds.
Is Pashto narration free?
You can try it free: the Free plan includes 10 minutes of Premium voices, enough to hear your Pashto book. After that, Pashto needs a paid plan, from Listener at $4.99/month or $49.90/year. Standard voices, unlimited on every plan, read English only.
What if my Pashto book is detected as another language?
Choose Pashto as the book’s language in the app, and the narrator reads it as Pashto. It can happen when a passage looks like Persian.
Can I download a Pashto audiobook?
Yes. Download audiobook makes one file with chapters, cover and book details (M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV), narrated with Premium voices from your plan’s Premium hours.