Drop the DOCX or EPUB of your draft and listen to it the way a reader would. Repeated words, flat dialogue and pacing problems are obvious by ear long before they are obvious on the page.
Why authors listen to their own drafts
Reading a draft for the tenth time stops working: your eyes skip what your brain expects. A narrator has no expectations. It reads exactly what is on the page, so an accidentally repeated word, a sentence that runs out of breath or a line of dialogue that no human would say lands with full force.
Book2Speech keeps your chapters, so you can listen to the scene you rewrote last night without scrolling, and switch narrators to hear the same passage in a different voice, gender or accent.
A working loop
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Export the draft as .docx (Word, Google Docs, Scrivener) or .epub (Vellum, Atticus, Calibre). Heading styles become chapters.
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Drop it here. Parsing takes seconds; narration starts within seconds more.
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Listen with the text alongside: read-along highlighting shows the sentence being spoken, so you can note the fix and keep going.
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Re-upload the revised file whenever you want; each version sits in your library.
What this is, and what it is not
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It is a fast, private way to hear a draft with a natural voice in a language of your choice.
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It is not a retail audiobook pipeline. Book2Speech streams narration in the web player and the iOS app; a full-book file can be requested, and publishers who need finished audio with human review can contact us about the Commercial plan.
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Your manuscript stays in your account until you delete it. It is not used to train voices and it is not shared.
Pick a narrator that fits the book
260+ narrators in 40+ languages: refined British, plain-spoken American, warm Southern, Australian, plus native voices for German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and more. Hear a sample of each before you commit, and switch mid-book.
Questions people ask
Will my draft be safe?
Uploads live in your private library, are used only to narrate for you, and are removed when you delete the book or your account.
Can I produce an audiobook for sale?
Not from the consumer app; it is built for listening. For full-book production, voice customisation and human review, ask about the Commercial plan on the Plans page.
Does it handle chapter headings from Scrivener or Vellum?
Yes, when they are exported as real headings (Heading styles in DOCX, chapter files in EPUB). Plain chapter titles on their own line are usually detected too.