Learn to listen to PDFs, books and web pages.
Follow step-by-step guides with the exact iPhone settings for Speak Screen, Safari and reader apps.
Read PDFs aloud
Make your iPhone read a PDF aloud: three ways
Use Speak Screen, Speak Selection or a reader app to hear a PDF on your iPhone. Here is what each one does with page numbers, footnotes and your place.
Choose an appBest text to speech app for iPhone: what to check
Pick a text to speech app for your iPhone with five checks: the voice, offline use, your formats, keeping your place and the real price.
Listen to articlesListen to web articles on your iPhone instead of reading them
Use Safari's Listen to Page for one article, or save articles to a reader app to hear your whole reading list offline, without ads and citation numbers.
Listening timeHow long does it take to listen to a book read aloud?
A 300-page book takes about 9 hours to hear at 1x and 4.5 hours at 2x. See the numbers for books, PDFs and articles, and how speed changes them.