We have a 3-day trial. Here is why it will not burn you.
Everyone in this category runs a 3-day trial. The trial is not the problem — the way it is wired is. Here is exactly how ours is built, and what we gave up to build it that way.
Blog
Notes from the indie side of text-to-speech.
Long-form writing about how Audris works, why we built it this way, and what we are learning as we ship it. No SEO content farming — every post is genuinely useful or it does not get published.
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How we built Audris: a 6-month indie engineering retrospective
A solo developer, an Expo subscription, and 13 days to validate an on-device TTS pipeline. Here's what we learned shipping Audris's first prototype.
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Why your TTS app reads section headers like body text (and how to fix it)
PDF-to-speech apps treat your document as a flat stream of characters. Here's why that breaks listening — and what the structural metadata in PDFs lets us do differently.
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The best offline PDF-to-speech apps in 2026
Six apps that actually read PDFs aloud without sending your documents to a server. Ranked, with honest pros and cons.
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What your PDF reader sends to the cloud.
Privacy posture varies wildly across PDF-to-speech apps. Here's a concrete breakdown of what flows where, based on each app's own terms and architecture.
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How to listen to research papers on your phone.
Academic papers are dense, structured documents — and that's exactly why structure-aware audio matters. Here's how to consume them without losing your place.
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Speechify vs NaturalReader vs Audris: an honest comparison.
Three popular PDF-to-speech apps, compared on the dimensions that actually matter to commuters and readers.
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How Audris reads documents like a human.
The structure-aware reading pipeline that gives Audris its cadence — and why every other PDF-to-speech app sounds like a monotone.