Turn newsletter issues into an audio show
Paste the links to unread newsletter issues, or save them as HTML or PDF, and Lissin makes one narrated audio round-up. It does not connect to your inbox.
The short answer
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.
How to do it
Save the issues you have, not the ones you subscribe to
Most newsletters publish every issue on the web, and those links can be pasted straight in. For the ones that live only in your inbox, or sit behind a subscriber login, save the browser view with Save Page As → Web Page, Complete, or print to PDF from your mail client. Lissin does not connect to your inbox either way.
Upload the backlog as a batch
Upload a week of issues together and ask ‘what were the recurring threads and what is genuinely new’. The episode covers threads that no single issue contains, and clears the backlog in one go.
Use a recurring show for what comes next
For future issues, describe the subject and let Lissin research it on a schedule. The show covers the same ground without an inbox, but it does not carry the judgement of the writer you subscribed to.
At a glance
- Sources it takes
- A link, pasted text, or an upload: HTML, PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX
- Best use
- A batch of unread issues as one round-up
- Inbox connection
- None — you paste the link, or upload the issue
- Transcript
- Included, synchronised to the audio
Hear what comes out
Shows already published on Lissin, free to play in the browser.
Questions
- Can Lissin subscribe to a newsletter for me?
- No. There is no email integration and no feed subscription, so nothing arrives on its own. You paste or upload the issues you want, or you set up a recurring show on the subject and Lissin researches it independently.
- Is it legal to do this with a paid newsletter?
- You are making a private audio version, for yourself, of something you paid for and can already read. That is different from republishing it, which Lissin shows do not do. A generated show is not distributable as the newsletter’s content, so do not share it as though it were.
- Why not just use the newsletter’s own audio version?
- If it has one, use it. A writer reading their own piece beats any generated narration. Lissin is for the newsletters that have none, and for a round-up across several that no single publisher can make.
What this does not do
Email HTML is messy, and saved issues often bring footers, unsubscribe blocks and tracking pixels along with them. A round-up also loses the individual voice that made the newsletter worth subscribing to.
Make your own show, or hear a sample
Make a show from your topic or documents in the Lissin iPhone app (iOS 26 or later). Or listen to public shows in the web player without installing the app.
Last reviewed September 9, 2026 by Lissin Editorial.