https://www.onarrator.com/blog Notes on reading, listening, and on-device narration. en-us Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.onarrator.com/blog/why-pdfs-read-aloud-badly https://www.onarrator.com/blog/why-pdfs-read-aloud-badly Headers, footers, page numbers, and captions live in the same text layer as the prose. Why most read-aloud tools narrate them, and what it takes to stop. Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.onarrator.com/blog/listen-to-a-pdf-without-uploading-it https://www.onarrator.com/blog/listen-to-a-pdf-without-uploading-it Most tools that read a PDF aloud send it to a server first. Here is how to listen on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad while the file stays on your device. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.onarrator.com/blog/word-level-highlighting https://www.onarrator.com/blog/word-level-highlighting Highlighting each word as it is spoken looks trivial and is not. A short tour of why aligning audio to text is hard, and the two ways to do it. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT