Adobe Acrobat's AI Turns PDFs into Podcasts Instantly

Adobe is nudging its flagship PDF tool into the audio arena, rolling out a feature that turns static text into spoken summaries. The move arrives as professionals wrestle with ever‑longer documents—meeting notes, research reports, and instructional manuals that sit unread on shared drives. By giving a single click a voice, the company hopes to cut down the time spent scanning pages and to make information more accessible on the go.

The addition sits alongside other AI‑driven capabilities that let users tweak content through conversational prompts, signaling a broader push to embed generative tools directly into everyday workflows. For anyone who’s ever wished they could listen to a PDF while commuting or multitasking, the new option promises exactly that: an audio‑first recap that can be consumed like a mini‑podcast. It’s a modest step toward blurring the line between reading and listening, and it raises the question of how much of our document‑heavy routines might soon be handled by a simple voice‑over.

Acrobat Studio users can edit docs with AI chat prompts, or summarise them as podcasts and presentations. The new Generate Podcast feature provides a podcast‑style audio summarisation of whatever documents you feed it, including notes, meeting transcriptions, lengthy reports, and educational guides.