Translate a book or document and listen to it in your language

Listen on the commute, on a walk, or after a day spent looking at a screen. Upload the file, choose the language and the voice — SonikaAI prepares audio from the translated material.

Translate and narrate

One upload, ready audio

Translation and narration together

You do not have to move the translation between services yourself, or prepare the text for narration somewhere else.

Translation goes straight to audio

You do not have to move the translation between services: the system prepares audio in the target language, ready to listen offline.

Hear the voice before you start

Pick a voice from the samples for the language and plan you need. SonikaAI takes headings, lists and paragraph boundaries into account when placing pauses; check how names and specialist terms sound in a short sample. Dates, times and currency amounts in the translated text are read out naturally too, not spelled out digit by digit.

Which files can be narrated

Upload EPUB, PDF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, TXT or MD. PDFs need a text layer: scans that contain only page images are not supported at the moment. Before translation and narration, you can enable masking of detected names, addresses and other personal data — depending on your plan and consent to cloud processing.

How it works

1

Choose translation with narration and upload the book or document.

Choose translation with narration and upload the book or document.
2

Set the languages, the voice and the scope

Choose main text or full narration.
3

Start processing — the service prepares the translation and the audio in the background.

Start processing — the service prepares the translation and the audio in the background.
4

Download the finished audio from your account.

Download the finished audio from your account.

Narration in detail

Main text or full narration

Choose main text to skip recognised running heads, page numbers, notes and bibliographic references — the usual choice for books. If you want those parts, choose full narration: it adds them where the file has them.

Chaptered M4A or MP3

If SonikaAI recognises the chapters, you get one M4A file with chapter marks; if not, an MP3. Download it and listen offline — the format does not depend on whether you chose main text or full narration.

The whole book, or selected PDF pages

Translate and narrate all of it, or pick the PDF page range you need. Scope and what gets narrated are two separate choices.

If you do not need a translation

Choose [narration without translation](/en/tools/text-to-speech) to listen to the material in its original language. The voices available to you, and how much audio you can create, depend on your plan.

Narrate text, books and documents online

Turn a PDF, Word file, EPUB or plain text into audio without translating it. Choose a voice, pick main text or full narration, and download the finished file.

Translate a whole book in one go

Translate an entire book into the language you need — no copying extracts, no piecing the text back together. Upload an EPUB or PDF, choose the full scope, and read or listen to the result.

Translation with narration compared

Translation for audio with SonikaAI, or translation in DeepL and audio in ElevenLabs? Compare how much the service does for you.

Tools

Translate and listen to your file

Start with a free sample to judge the translation and the voice on your own document or book. For the full run you can pay once without a subscription, or take a monthly plan.