PDFSpeech

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PDFSpeech will help you read more. It taps into text-to-speech (TTS) technology built into macOS to help you zip through PDFs. With great tools at hand, you’ll look forward to reading a book cover to cover, and even read an entire chapter in one sitting. PDFSpeech strives to banish the effort involved in reading, and it adds invaluable momentum to help you complete your biggest reading tasks.

Browse the PDFSpeech User Guide online or download as PDF (10 MB, 13 pages).

Tutorials

Create a PDF Pack by printing from a website, for example, book chapters from SafariBooksOnline.com tutorial

Print to PDF with custom paper sizes to reduce scrolling and for easier reading on screens tutorial
Convert EPUB books to PDF using Calibre UI or Calibre via the command-line on macOS or the Clearview app

See Release Notes for PDFSpeech.

Version 1.4 released August 5, 2019
Version 1.3.1 released August 4, 2019
Version 1.3 released July 8, 2019.
Version 1.2 released May 2, 2019.

Download link for PDFSpeech version 1.0 with purchases handled by Paddle.com

Link to buy and download PDFSpeech app from the Mac App Store for US$ 9.99

Updated August 2019. Requires macOS 10.7+
Need multiple licenses of PDFSpeech? Buy at paddle.com

Zip through your reading list with text-to-speech

Open a PDF and double-click on a word to start reading.
PDFSpeech works with text-to-speech voices bundles with macOS, or purchased separately.

Shift up a gear for skim reading a PDF

Use the Fast Skip mode to read faster or when you just want the big picture.
Works great for web articles, scholarly PDFs, and even textbooks!

Build your reading list with PDF Packs

A PDF Pack is a merged PDF comprising of multiple PDFs. Create these packs directly in PDFSpeech.
Use the table of contents button to navigate through the PDFs in a pack.

Import Rich Text and PDF pages to build PDF Packs

Any rich text, copied from the web or a Word document, can be imported into PDFSpeech.
Optionally, use the built-in rich text editor to satisfactorily edit the text before conversion to PDF.

Print to PDFSpeech from any app

Use the powerful macOS "Print to PDF" feature to send content from any app to PDFSpeech.
PDFSpeech can merge these prints into a single PDF pack, and grow the table of contents accordingly.