Audeus

What Audeus is

Audeus is a text-to-speech reader for long documents. It reads PDFs, Word files, Google Docs, ebooks, web articles and custom text aloud, with synchronized highlighting, voice selection, automatic saving of your reading position and an estimate of listening time.

It runs as a web app, on iOS and Android, and through a Chrome extension.

What you can do with it

• Listen to a paper or textbook chapter
• Follow along with highlighted text
• Resume where you stopped on another device
• Estimate how long a document takes to hear

Who it is for

• Students and researchers
• Legal and medical learners
• Readers who want to rest their eyes

What to watch out for

• It reads text; it does not make you understand or remember it
• Scan quality, OCR and complex layouts affect the experience
• Confidential documents should not be uploaded without checking the service's privacy rules
• Formulas, charts and dense tables still need the original text