An AI podcast generator, and pages for a file you already have
If you’ve only got a topic, start with the AI podcast generator. If you’ve already got a PDF, some notes, an article or a YouTube link, open that page. Each one says what the iPhone app does with it, and what it won’t.
notion to audio
Turn a Notion page into an audio show
Export the Notion page with Export → PDF, include subpages if you want the whole tree, then upload the file to Lissin and describe the show you want from it. Lissin reads the text layer, writes a script, and narrates it. Toggles export collapsed, so open them first.
obsidian notes to audio
Turn Obsidian notes into an audio show
Obsidian’s Export to PDF turns one note into a file Lissin can read. For a folder, use the Pandoc or Webpage HTML plugin to produce a single HTML file first. Upload it, say what kind of show you want, and Lissin writes and narrates it.
google docs to audio
Turn a Google Doc into an audio show
File → Download → PDF Document or Microsoft Word (.docx), then upload the file to Lissin and describe the show. Both formats carry the full text. Accept or reject tracked suggestions first: DOCX exports them as live revisions and the narration can end up reading both versions of a sentence.
pdf to audio
PDF to audio: hear the file, or make it a podcast
PDF to audio here means you upload the file in the iPhone app and Lissin makes something you can listen to. Ask for a walk-through, or a podcast with one voice or two. Uploading needs Plus or Pro. A normal PDF is read from its text, and a scan goes through OCR. On a long file, name the chapters.
pdf to podcast
Turn a PDF into a podcast
PDF to podcast, in the Lissin iPhone app, starts with an upload on Plus or Pro. Say if you want one narrator or two people talking it through. A text PDF is read as text. A scan is read with OCR. For a long report, name the pages, or the episode skims.
pdf to audiobook
Turn a PDF into an audiobook on your iPhone
Upload a PDF in the Lissin iPhone app. Ask for a straight read, or a short show on the part that matters. Uploading needs Plus or Pro. A normal PDF is read from its text, and a scan goes through OCR. The Free plan doesn't include document uploads.
powerpoint to audio
Turn a PowerPoint deck into an audio show
Upload the .pptx and describe the show. Lissin reads slide text and speaker notes together. A deck is a set of headlines, and the argument connecting them usually lives only in the notes, so a deck without notes narrates as a list.
word document to audio
Turn a Word document into an audio show
Upload the .docx or .doc and say what the show should be. Lissin reads the document’s text and heading structure, writes a script, and narrates it. Accept or reject tracked changes first — an unresolved revision can be read as both the old and the new sentence.
spreadsheet to audio
Turn a spreadsheet into an audio briefing
Upload the .xlsx and ask for an interpretation, not a reading. Lissin reads the cell values and sheet names. A script that narrates rows is unusable. One that answers ‘what moved, by how much, and what is the likely reason’ makes a useful two-minute briefing.
research papers to audio
Turn research papers into an audio show
Download the paper’s PDF and upload it, or paste the PDF link, then ask for the level you want: the result and why it matters, the method in detail, or the argument against it. Upload several papers together to get one episode that compares them.
sec filing to audio
Turn an SEC filing into an audio briefing
Paste the EDGAR link, or upload the filing as PDF, then name the sections you care about — risk factors, MD&A, the segment tables. A 10-K read start to finish is four hours of boilerplate; a briefing on the parts that changed is fifteen minutes.
markdown to audio
Turn Markdown and HTML files into an audio show
Upload the .md or .html file on Plus or Pro, or paste a link to the published page on any plan, then describe the show you want. Lissin writes a spoken script from the text, so asterisks, backticks and link brackets are not read out. For a whole docs site, combine the pages you care about first.
newsletter to audio
Turn newsletter issues into an audio show
Paste the links to the issues you have not read, or save them out of your inbox as HTML or PDF, then ask for a round-up rather than a reading. Six unread issues become one twelve-minute episode about what happened across them.
read later backlog to audio
Turn a reading backlog into an audio show
Export the saved articles or save them as HTML or PDF, upload them together, and ask what connects them. A read-later queue is often forty tabs on one recurring interest, and one episode about that interest is more useful than forty narrations.
meeting notes to audio
Turn meeting notes into an audio catch-up
Export the notes or transcripts as DOCX or PDF, redact names and salaries, upload the week together, and ask for decisions and open questions rather than a summary. The episode catches you up on the meetings you missed. Lissin does not join or record meetings.
textbook to audio
Turn textbook chapters into an audio study show
Upload the chapter PDF and ask for teaching rather than reading: the idea explained, then a worked example, then the questions an examiner would ask. Scanned chapters go through OCR automatically, so a photographed page works. Use it for a second pass on material you have already read.
ai podcast generator
An AI podcast generator for the show you want to hear
This AI podcast generator starts with what you want to hear, or with links, notes or a document. Lissin researches it, writes a script for one or two voices, and records 5 to 25 minutes. Keep that one episode, or have the show come back daily, on weekdays, weekly or every two weeks.
article to podcast
Turn an article or web page into a podcast
Copy the article's link, add it to a new request in the Lissin iPhone app and say what you want: a walk-through, a two-host discussion or only the parts that bear on your question. Lissin reads the page, writes a script and voices it. Pasted text works the same way, and one episode can take up to 20 links.
text to podcast
Turn text into a podcast
Text to podcast starts as a paste. In the iPhone app the request holds 8,000 characters, about 1,300 words, and your instructions count toward that. A longer piece should be a PDF, uploaded on Plus or Pro. Ask for one narrator or two speakers.
lecture notes to podcast
Turn your lecture notes into a revision podcast
Paste your notes into a new Lissin request, or upload them as a PDF or Word file on Plus or Pro, and say how to use them: "explain each topic from my notes, then quiz me". Handwritten notes work as a scanned PDF. Say whether it should stay inside your notes or fill gaps from the web.
youtube video to podcast
Turn a YouTube video into a podcast episode
Copy the video's link from YouTube, paste it into a new request in the Lissin iPhone app and say what you want from it. When YouTube has English captions for the video, Lissin works from them and writes a spoken episode: a summary, a two-host discussion or only the parts you ask about.
youtube to podcast
Turn a YouTube link into a podcast episode
YouTube to podcast usually means saving the video's own audio. Lissin doesn't do that, and it won't follow a channel or publish an RSS feed of one. Paste one video link in the iPhone app. If YouTube has English captions, Lissin writes a new episode from what was said.
ebook to podcast
Turn an ebook into a podcast about the book
On Plus or Pro, upload a DRM-free EPUB to the Lissin iPhone app and say what the episode is for: one chapter explained, the book's argument tested by two voices, or its ideas set against another book. Lissin reads the chapters in order and writes a podcast from them. You get a discussion of the book, not an audiobook.