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24 alternatives to I wrote 100 book summaries
Turn any article, PDF, or text into a natural-sounding podcast. Listen on the go.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. I wrote 100 book summaries launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Listening.io▲243Turn articles into audio and listen in your podcast app
2022 · listening.com · its alternatives →
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Listen To This▲151Paste an article to listen to it in your podcast app
Mar 2026 · listentothis.xyz · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I'm stoked to share a project I've been working on called PDF to Podcast. It's a free, open-source tool that automatically converts PDF documents into engaging, informative podcast-style audio content using large language models and text-to-speech tech. Inspiration: The idea for this project came from the NotebookLM demo at Google I/O, where they showcased generating audio dialogue from uploaded PDFs and other sources. However, that audio feature hasn't been publicly released yet, and I wanted to challenge myself to build something similar using existing tools and APIs. How it…
2024 · pdf-to-podcast.com · its alternatives →
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read-this.ai▲153Turn instantly any article into a podcast with one click
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Outtloud▲208Create unlimited audiobooks & podcasts from your documents!
2025 · outtloud.com · its alternatives →
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I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speechfree tier, from $15/mo▲140Hey HN. I’m Ivan, hacker from Ukraine. For about a year, I was working on Listenly — an app to listen to text content with OpenAI's natural-sounding text-to-speech model. At some moment, I realized that it would be cool to take all the public domain e-books and create audio versions for them. So I did it... kind-of. It would cost an immense amount of money to generate all the audio right away (OpenAI TTS costs approximately $0.84/hour of audio; 11labs, for comparison, is 10 times more expensive). So, I took a more gradual approach. I took all the metadata from the Project Gutenberg…
2024 · listenly.io · its alternatives →
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Turn your 'must do' reading into on the go listening
2021 · its alternatives →
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Transform PDFs into podcasts with AI-generated voices
2024 · viral.vadoo.tv · its alternatives →
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PDF to MP3▲169Hey HN, I've built a new feature to listen to blog posts. I also have an app, that's what I personally use to listen to audio while driving. I would love to get some feedback on the UX and whether this is useful for you!
2024 · listendock.com · its alternatives →
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Productivity, consistency, resiliency
2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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Convert articles, PDFs, and emails to natural-sounding audio. Listen in the Audioread app or Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Start free.
2021 · audiblogs.com · its alternatives →
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- 20TA
2020 · remarkboard.com · its alternatives →
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The gear I've used to create this here podthingy
2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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Books deserve better. Listen & Experience like never before
2025 · lvlpedia.space · its alternatives →
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