Turn a document into a podcast
Drafts, meeting notes, briefs, chapters. Documents pile up in a way that reading time does not, and most of them are things you need to know rather than things you need to study. Upload one and listen to it instead.
Word (.docx), plain text or Markdown, up to 20 MB.
How it works
- 1Upload the documentWord (.docx), plain text or Markdown, up to 20 MB. Read on our server to pull the text out, then discarded.
- 2Choose what to make of itA summary, the key points, or a structured set of notes.
- 3Listen or take the MP3Read aloud in a natural voice, and downloadable.
What survives the conversion and what does not
The words survive. Headings survive as text. Almost nothing else does — comments, tracked changes, footnotes, headers and footers, and anything living in a text box or a shape.
That is usually the right trade for listening, because those are exactly the elements that make a document unreadable aloud. It is the wrong trade if the comments were the point, which is worth knowing before you upload a draft under review.
Google Docs and anything else in a browser
A Google Doc is not a file until you export it. File → Download → Microsoft Word (.docx), then upload that. The same is true of Notion, Confluence and most other browser-first editors, all of which export to .docx or Markdown.
If the document is published to a public web address, the article tool is the shorter route: paste the address rather than exporting.
Long documents
Length is not the constraint people expect. A summary of a two-hundred-page document takes about as long to produce as a summary of ten pages, and is about as long to listen to, because the tool decides the output length rather than the input doing it.
What changes with length is what is worth asking for. For anything substantial, key insights first: they tell you whether the full read is warranted, in under a minute.
What it will not do
- Comments, tracked changes and footnotes are not part of the extracted text.
- Tables and diagrams flatten to text and lose their structure.
- Google Docs must be exported to .docx first — there is no direct connection.
- Reading the document is free. The AI tools and the narration are part of the subscription.
Questions
- Which formats work?
- Word (.docx), plain text (.txt) and Markdown (.md), up to 20 MB.
- Can I connect Google Docs directly?
- No. Export the document as .docx and upload that, or paste its address if it is published publicly.
- Are comments and tracked changes included?
- No, only the document text itself.
- Is my document stored?
- No. It is read to extract the text and then discarded.
- Is it free?
- Reading the document is free. The AI tools and the narration are part of the subscription.