Turn any document into a spoken summary. Free, private, on your own machine.Tolle Lege — take it up and hear it.Google's Docs "Audio Summaries" costs $19.99 a month — about $240 a year. Doc'Aloud does the same job for free: it reads your documents, summarizes them with an AI you control, and speaks the result aloud — all on your own Windows machine, with nothing hosted by us.### What it doesPoint it at a PDF, Word doc, Markdown or plain text (or just paste). Pick how long you want the audio, choose a voice, and hit go. Play it in the app, or save an MP3 for the commute.### Why it's different- Private by design. Run a local AI model (Ollama) and nothing leaves your machine — no cloud, no quota, no tracking. Prefer a cloud model? Bring your own key; it's kept in your Windows credential vault, never in our files.- Free / pay what you want. No subscription, no account, no upsell.- Target time. Tell it "5 minutes" and the summary is sized to fit under it — something the big players don't give you.- Faithful across languages. Summarize an English report into Dutch, French or German and it keeps the figures, names and technical terms right — it doesn't turn jargon into nonsense.- Read aloud, verbatim. For a recipe or a manual, skip the summary and have it read the document itself, word for word.- Voices included. A natural English and a Flemish/Dutch voice ship with it (Piper TTS, runs locally); other languages download on first use.### How it works1. Pick a document — PDF, DOCX, Markdown, TXT, or paste text.2. Choose a length (Short · Normal · Deep · Target time) and a voice.3. Listen in the app, or Save MP3.### What you need- Windows 10 / 11.- An AI to do the summarizing — pick one: - Google Gemini — free tier, no card needed (a key takes two clicks). - A local model via Ollama — unlimited, fully offline, zero cost. - OpenAI or Claude — if you already have a key.- The text-to-speech is built in and runs locally — no key needed for the voice.### Honest about your dataWith a cloud provider, the text you summarize is sent to that provider to be summarized (Google's free Gemini tier may use it to improve their products; a paid key does not). With a local model or the Read aloud button, nothing leaves your machine at all. We don't run a server, collect data, or track anything.### FAQIs it really free? Yes — pay what you want, including nothing. You bring your own AI key (free tiers exist) or run a model locally.Does it work offline? The voice always does. Summarizing needs an AI: a local model is fully offline; cloud models need internet.Which files work? .txt, .md, .docx, .pdf — or paste text. (Scanned PDFs are images with no selectable text; export to text first.)How big is the download? About 307 MB — it bundles the speech engine, two voices and everything it needs, so there's nothing else to install.---Doc'Aloud · Biniru Projects — free, local, privacy-first. No tracking, no ads, made in the EU.