Long reports and PDFs, in your podcast app
The report you saved for a quiet afternoon can come with you on a walk instead. Upload a PDF, an ebook or a Word file, and Askwho Casts Pro makes it into an audiobook with chapters, in its own private podcast feed.
Your first article is free, up to 30 minutes. No card needed.
Hear a real one
The cast, in order of appearance
- Narratorvoiced by Clara Linden
- Linda Hamvoiced by Keira Blackwell
- Don McCormackvoiced by Kellan Lawson
Two minutes from a meeting transcript in the report. Its twenty pages became four episodes, 73 minutes in all. The report is a work of the US government, in the public domain.
From a file to an audiobook
Upload the file
A PDF, an EPUB, a Word document or plain text, up to 80 MB. Reports, papers, textbooks and books all work.
Check it over
You see the chapters it found and the people it quotes, and you can switch off what you'd rather skip, like the references. Then you see the price. Nothing is made until you say so.
Listen anywhere
Each chapter becomes an episode in the book's own private feed, so it plays in your podcast app. You can also download it as an M4B audiobook with chapters, or as MP3s.
What you'll hear
The whole text, not a summary. Page numbers, running headers and other print furniture are left out, and sentences split across a page break are joined again.
Tables, charts and diagrams are described aloud in a sentence or three. Citations such as "Smith et al., 2020" are read by name, the way people read papers aloud, and you can choose to hear them in full. Footnotes are read as asides.
The emails, letters, minutes and testimony a report quotes are read in voices of their own, so you can follow who said what.
What it costs
Uploads come with a plan. A book or report costs 1.25 credits a minute of finished audio, and you see the exact price before anything is made. The twenty pages above came to 73 minutes, for 80 credits.
Plans start at $9 a month for 200 credits.
Where it plays
Each book has its own private feed. Add it to Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, AntennaPod, Podcast Addict and most other podcast apps. Spotify and YouTube Music can't add private feeds.
Or listen on the site, with a read-along that lights each line as it's spoken, bookmarks and a sleep timer.
Try it on an article you meant to read
Your first article is free, up to 30 minutes. No card needed.
Try your free articleUploads come with a plan, from $9 a month for 200 credits. A book or report costs 1.25 credits a minute, and you see the price before it's made.