🌊 ParseWave

Your documents, read aloud — right now.

ParseWave is a lightning-fast, highly functional PDF-to-audio engine built to do one thing perfectly: let you listen to your documents without the friction of sign-ups, API keys, or cloud uploads.

The entire narration pipeline runs directly inside your browser. No data ever leaves your machine.

I needed a way to review heavy PDFs and documentation while multitasking. The commercial market is flooded with bloated SaaS tools that charge monthly fees or steal your document data. ParseWave skips all that. It’s a pure utility tool built for speed, privacy, and low-level resource efficiency.

• Zero Server Dependency: Audio synthesis relies entirely on your browser's native Web Speech API.
• Intelligent Parsing: Automatically strips out the junk (running headers, page numbers, images) and stitches hyphenated words back together for seamless playback.
• Unlimited Scale: Because it runs locally, there are absolutely no file length limits or hidden paywalls.

Getting started is completely frictionless.

1. Drop the File: Drag your PDF or plain text file into the drop zone on the landing page (or click to browse).
2. Wait for the Clean-Up: ParseWave instantly extracts the core paragraphs and dialogue, leaving the formatting noise behind.
3. Press Play: Hit the play button. The native narrator will begin reading aloud immediately.

Once your document is loaded, you have complete control over the playback matrix:

• Live Captions: The text box highlights the exact paragraph currently being spoken so you never lose your place.
• Voice Selection: Choose from any native voice installed on your system (e.g., Google US English).
• Speed Overrides: Easily ramp the speed from 0.75x up to 2.0x for rapid reviewing.
• Section Skips: Jump back and forth between document sections instantly using the timeline scrubber.

This project was proudly vibe coded, an emerging programming paradigm where software behavior is described through natural language prompts to AI tools.

• Instead of writing code line-by-line, the development process focused on iterating on and validating AI-generated solutions.
• The core philosophy was intent over syntax—steering, testing, and course-correcting the AI to rapidly ship a functional product.

Shipping beats perfecting.

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.