Upload the reading
A text-based PDF, an EPUB or a TXT file. If you can select a sentence in the PDF, it will work.
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Listen to Your Textbooks and Study PDFs
Turn the reading list into something you can listen to on the bus, at the gym or with tired eyes — chapter by chapter, at your own speed, and with a different voice for every character in set novels and plays.
From reading list to audio
Works best for prose-heavy material.
It becomes chapters
Non-fiction is read by one clear narrator; set novels and plays get a voice for each character.
Study on the move
Speed from 0.25× to 3×, background playback, and the text on screen follows the voice when you want to look.
What works well
- Humanities and social sciences — chapters of argument and narrative.
- Literature courses — set novels and plays, with every character voiced.
- Revision — replay a chapter as often as you like; it costs hours only the first time.
What does not
Maths and science textbooks full of equations, tables and diagrams. Those are read as text, or skipped where there is no text at all, so listening is a companion to the page there, not a replacement. Scanned PDFs without a text layer cannot be narrated.
Why listening helps
Hearing the material frees your eyes and adds study time you would not otherwise have — the commute, the walk, the queue. Following the text on screen while it reads helps some people concentrate, and for readers with dyslexia it can make long reading manageable; see listening instead of reading.
Why listeners choose Lyraboo
The things people notice in the first chapter — and the reasons they stay.
Every character gets their own voice
Lyraboo’s AI finds every character in the book and casts a distinct voice for each — automatically, for every book. You always know who is speaking, and dialogue sounds like a real conversation instead of one narrator doing all the parts. Most reading and text-to-speech apps use one voice for everything.
The text follows along, like lyrics
Under the player, the book scrolls with the voice the way song lyrics do in Spotify: words light up as they are spoken, each line shows who says it, and tapping any word jumps there.
A player that feels like a music app
Chapters, speed from 0.25× to 3×, background playback with lock-screen controls, and it picks up exactly where you stopped.
Upload, and you are listening in minutes
Pick an EPUB, PDF or TXT and there is nothing to set up: the first chapter is ready in about one to two minutes, and the rest generate while you listen.
Any book you have, not just a catalogue
Novels, fanfiction and web-serial exports, indie ebooks, study PDFs — plus over 1,000 English classics already in the app.
Fair on cost
One free hour of listening every month, no card needed. Hours are spent once per chapter — replaying is always free.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I turn my textbook into an audiobook?
If you have it as a DRM-free, text-based PDF or EPUB, yes. Textbooks bought through platforms that lock the file (DRM) cannot be imported.
How does it handle formulas, tables and footnotes?
Not well, honestly. Narration works best on prose. Equations, tables and dense footnotes are read as text, which can sound awkward — keep the PDF open for those parts. For research papers full of them, Paper2Audio, which summarises tables and skips references, is the better tool.
Is it good for literature courses?
That is where it shines: set novels and plays get a full cast, with a different voice for every character, so dialogue is easy to follow.
How much listening do I get for free?
One hour a month, without a card. A subscription adds more hours; each chapter costs hours once, and replaying it for revision is free.
Try Lyraboo on Android
Upload a book you own and let the app turn it into a multi-voice audiobook automatically.