PDFSpeech
PDFSpeech is a macOS reading app that uses built-in text-to-speech voices to read PDF documents aloud and help users move through long reading lists.
What is PDFSpeech?
PDFSpeech is a native macOS reading app for listening to PDF documents with the text-to-speech voices built into macOS. It is designed for people who want help getting through long articles, textbooks, research papers, and other PDF-heavy reading. You can open a PDF and start speech from a chosen word, making it easier to continue from a specific point in the document. The app also supports creating combined PDF packs, importing rich text, and sending content from other apps into PDFSpeech through macOS print workflows. For users who spend a lot of time reading on a Mac, it focuses on turning static PDF material into a more continuous listen-and-read workflow. PDFSpeech is published by Onekerato.
Key features
- Read PDF text aloud using macOS text-to-speech voices
- Start speaking from a selected word in the document
- Stop playback directly from the PDF reading view
- Create combined PDF packs from multiple documents
- Import rich text content and convert it into PDFs for reading
- Send printable content from other apps into PDFSpeech
- Navigate merged reading collections with a table of contents
- Customize pronunciation with editable word mappings
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
PDFSpeech is a legitimate Mac reading app focused on opening PDFs and using macOS speech features to read them aloud. Access to your documents is expected for this purpose. If you remove it, any app-specific settings or imported reading material kept inside the app may no longer be available there, but ordinary PDF files stored elsewhere on your Mac are not normally affected.
Recommendation: Keep PDFSpeech if you use text-to-speech for PDFs or maintain reading packs inside the app. If you no longer use it, you can remove it like other Mac apps, and you may also clean up its support files afterward if you want to reclaim a small amount of space.
Common paths
/Applications/PDFSpeech.app
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/me.onekerato.PDFSpeechMAS
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