You need to get through it β but not with your eyes on a screen. Upload the file and choose a voice: SonikaAI narrates the text in its original language, and you listen on the move, on a walk, or while you get on with the day.
Many narration tools only take text you paste in yourself β so a book or a document has to go across in chunks, and you have to keep track of where you stopped. SonikaAI takes the whole file: upload the entire PDF, EPUB or Word document, with no copying by hand. For PDFs you can also pick the pages you want.
Listen to the voice samples for the language of your file, and check how names and terms are pronounced in a short sample. SonikaAI also takes headings and paragraphs into account when placing pauses, so the text is easier to follow by ear. Dates, times and currency amounts are read out naturally too, not spelled out digit by digit.
Choose main text to skip recognised running heads, page numbers, notes and bibliographic references β the usual choice for books. If you want those parts, choose full narration: it adds them where the file has them.
If SonikaAI recognises the chapters, you get one M4A file with chapter marks; if not, an MP3. Download it and listen offline β the format does not depend on whether you chose main text or full narration.
PDF, EPUB, DOCX, DOC, ODT, TXT and MD are supported. PDFs need a text layer β scans with only page images are not supported. The voices available to you, and how much audio you can create, depend on your plan. Before narration, you can enable masking of detected names, addresses and other personal data β depending on your plan and consent to cloud processing.
Choose narration without translation and upload the file.
Choose main text or full narration.
Start processing and get on with your day β the audio is prepared in the background.
Download the finished file from your account and open it in your player.
Choose [translation with narration](/en/tools/translate-and-narrate) to get audio in the language you need alongside the translated text β from a single upload.
Translate a book or document and get audio in the target language from a single upload. Listen to study and work material whenever it suits you.
No translation needed, you just want to listen to the file in its original language? Compare the file formats and the choice of voices.
Preview voice samples for every SonikaAI plan and choose the narration quality level that fits you.
Start with a free sample to judge the voice and how it sounds on your own book or document. For the full narration you can pay once without a subscription, or take a monthly plan.
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