For the readers who tried Speechify on a textbook
Chapter-aware narration for textbooks, research papers, and the technical reads no publisher will ever record.
No credit card. 5,000 words to try it.
The pile
The organic chemistry textbook your professor assigned in week one. Designing Data-Intensive Applications you bought at the airport and read past chapter three. The 40-page PDF on your desktop labelled paper_to_read.pdf. The shelf you’ve carefully curated — and the unfinished pile that grows next to it.
There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s something wrong with how those books work as audio.
Articles don’t have footnotes. They don’t have multi-page tables of contents, or appendix indices, or chapter headings that need to be skipped, or end-of-chapter problem sets that get read aloud as if they were prose. Articles are flat.
Speechify is great at flat. Audionarrator is built for the rest of your shelf.
How it works
Audionarrator reads the structure of your document — front matter, chapters, back matter — and classifies each one. The table of contents gets skipped. The body chapters get a real audiobook layout, in order, named.
Generated chapter by chapter at a measured, professional pace. Every voice is available on every plan. Switch voices any time without re-uploading.
A library that holds your books. A chapter list that hides what you don't want to hear. A player that knows where you left off — on your phone, your laptop, the train.
Three lives
The med student
opens the pharmacology textbook on a Tuesday morning. Drops it into Audionarrator before leaving for the lab. By the time she gets there, she’s listened through the first chapter — the one on receptor pharmacodynamics — on the walk. Tomorrow she’ll pick up where she stopped, on the same chapter she paused on Tuesday, with a chapter list that lets her jump to drug interactions when the lecture covers them.
The engineer on the commuter rail
uploads the 40-page paper he’s been telling himself he’ll read this weekend. By the time he gets to work, the introduction and methodology are done. The discussion section waits for the return trip. Nothing got read as figure 2.4 caption. Nothing got rendered as et al. 2018.
The autodidact folding laundry
turns The Mythical Man-Month into something he can finally finish. Chapter list on the laptop, audio on the kitchen speaker, two bedsheets and three towels — and he’s into the second chapter for the first time in eleven months.
What you get
Pricing
5,000 words on signup gets you about one short chapter — enough to hear the voices, feel the chapter navigation, decide if it’s for you. After that, Creator is $9 a month for 50,000 words and chapter Q&A. Pro is $45 a month for serious study. Studio is $149 a month for serious volume.
For context: Speechify Premium runs $29 a month. Creator is $9 a month, includes chapter detection, and you can start without a credit card.
Drop in the PDF you’ve been meaning to finish. Hear the first chapter on the walk to work tomorrow. See if it sticks.
No credit card needed.