Free tool · Read PDF aloudRead any PDF aloud, in a natural voice.
Drop a PDF, a Word file or an EPUB and hear it read aloud: a report, a paper, a book. Leelo takes the words from the file, splits them into lines and reads them in the voice you pick. Your free credits read 1,000 words, and you download MP3s or a whole audiobook.
- Free: 1,000 words, about 7 minutes of speech
- No card, no time limit
- A free account is all it takes: no card, and the tool opens with this already in place.
01How it works
Three steps, start to finish.
- Step 1
Drop your document
A PDF, a Word file, an EPUB or plain text, up to 30 MB. It's read in your browser.
- Step 2
Check the lines
Make a free account: the document opens as a project, split into lines, for you to look over before anything is made.
- Step 3
Pick a voice and listen
Choose a narrator and press Generate. Download each chapter as an MP3, or the whole of it as one audiobook.
02Made for
Where people use it.
- AudiobooksChapters, one steady narrator“Nobody had lived in the house for eleven years.”An 80,000-word novel ≈ 80,000 credits
- Articles & accessibilityA listen button on every post“Why cities are getting quieter. By Ana Ruiz.”A 1,200-word article ≈ 1,200 credits
- E-learning & trainingLessons people finish“In this lesson, we'll look at how compound interest works.”A 10-module course ≈ 7,500 credits
03Details
What the free plan covers.
- Free to start
- 1,000 words in a standard voice, given once when you sign up: two or three pages.
- Files
- PDF, Word (.docx), EPUB, plain text and Markdown, up to 30 MB.
- PDFs
- The text in a PDF is read. A scanned page is a picture of words, with none to read.
- Download
- An MP3 or WAV for each chapter, or one M4B audiobook with chapters.
- Voices
- Hundreds of natural voices in 80+ languages and accents, the same ones paid plans use.
04Questions
Before you start.
Yes. A free account starts with 1,000 credits, and a word in a standard voice costs one credit: 1,000 words of speech, two or three pages of a PDF. No card is asked for. A longer document needs a credit pack or a plan.
The file is read in your browser and stays there. Its words go into your project when you import them, so they can be read aloud; the file itself isn't kept.
Only the text a PDF holds as text. A scanned page is a picture of words, with nothing to read: run it through a text recognition (OCR) tool first, then drop the result here.
Yes. The document opens as an audiobook project: mark the chapters (a Word or EPUB file brings its own headings), pick a narrator, and export one M4B with chapters or an MP3 per chapter.
Over 80 languages and accents. Pick a voice in the document's language: a German PDF in a German voice, a Spanish one in a Spanish voice.
Try it on your own work.
1,000 free credits to try everything. No card needed, and nothing to install.
Start free: 1,000 creditsNo subscription? Pay once, from $9