How to use InkToAudio

Turn your Beehiiv posts into audio

Beehiiv is built for readers, but a growing slice of your audience would rather listen — on the commute, at the gym, while doing dishes. The good news is that Beehiiv supports HTML Snippets and iframes inside your posts, which means you have more options than most newsletter platforms for getting a real audio player in front of your readers.

InkToAudio is built to make that easy, without requiring you to record every one of your articles. Here’s the full workflow, from draft to published audio.

1. Write and preview your post in Beehiiv

Compose your post the way you normally would. The cleaner your formatting, headings, and pull quotes, the better they’ll translate to spoken audio — so it’s worth getting the post into close-to-final shape before you hand it off.

You don’t need to publish yet. A test email is enough to get your content into InkToAudio.

2. Grab your InkToAudio inbox address

Open Forwards in InkToAudio. At the top you’ll see your personal forwarding address — something like model.run.1856@inbox.inktoaudio.com. Copy it. This is the email address that turns any incoming message into a piece of content inside your account.

3. Share the Beehiiv post to your inbox

1. In Beehiiv, select the down arrow next to Preview, then click Send Test Email.
2. When you receive the test email, forward it to your InkToAudio inbox address.
3. Within moments, the post will show up in InkToAudio under Content, fully parsed and ready to work with.

4. Edit and transform the text

In InkToAudio, select Content, then Edit next to your new content item. Audio isn’t a 1:1 read of the page. Asides in parentheses, “(see chart below)” references, and dense paragraphs that work on the page can feel clunky out loud. InkToAudio lets you edit the post directly, and there are one-click AI transformations for the common cases:

• Optimize for spoken content — tightens sentence rhythm and replaces written-only constructions with phrasing that flows when spoken.
• Podcast style — reframes the piece with the cadence and warmth of a podcast host.
• Newscast style — punchier, more declarative, closer to broadcast delivery.

If you want your content to sound like a podcast, discussion, or newscast, switch on Multispeaker, which can make content significantly more engaging than a single narrator reading every line. Run a transformation, tweak the result by hand, and you’re ready to render.

5. Pick a voice profile

Choose a voice profile (or voice profiles for multispeaker), and a delivery style. Delivery styles change the way your speakers deliver your content: podcaster, newscaster, radio DJ, storyteller, conversational, or energetic.

6. Render the audio

Click Save Changes & Render Audio. Depending on the length of your content, you’ll have a finished narration in a minute or two.

7. Get it back into Beehiiv

This is where Beehiiv’s flexibility pays off. Beehiiv publishes separate web and email versions of each post, and supports both HTML Snippets and iframes — so you can tailor what each audience sees. Click Share in InkToAudio to see the embed options: Embed Code → Link, Direct Link, and Player (iframe).

Option 1 — A listen button (works in email and on the web)

Insert an HTML Snippet in your Beehiiv post and paste the Embed → Link code. This drops in a button that links to the InkToAudio listening page and works in both the emailed version and the web version of your post. You also get full listening analytics — plays, completion rate, drop-off points — on the InkToAudio side.

Prefer to design your own button or link? Use the Direct Link as the URL for any custom button or text link you want to add instead.

Option 2 — Inline player on the web, plus a button for email

Email clients can’t render iframes, but Beehiiv’s web version can. Add two HTML Snippet blocks and use the settings button on each block to control which version it appears in:

1. Paste the Player (iframe) embed into an HTML Snippet. Open that block’s settings and set visibility to the web version only. Web readers get a full inline player with listening analytics.
2. Paste the listen button or link (from Option 1) into a second HTML Snippet. Open that block’s settings and set visibility to the email version only. Email readers get a tap-to-listen button that opens the InkToAudio listening page.

For most Beehiiv writers, the move is: place a listen option near the top of the post (“Prefer to listen? Tap here.”) and let the analytics do their work.

Limiting audio to paid subscribers

If you want listening reserved for paid subscribers, place each listen block (the email-only button and the web-only iframe player, if you’re using Option 2) below your content paywall break. Only paid subscribers will see — and be able to use — the listen option in either version.

Going hands-off with Auto Render

If you publish on a regular schedule, the manual steps above get repetitive. InkToAudio’s Auto Render pipelines handle that.

1. Build a pipeline once — pick the voice profile, multispeaker setting, AI transformation, and any other defaults you want applied.
2. Go to Forwards, toggle on Auto Render, and select your pipeline.
3. From that point on, every post you share to your InkToAudio inbox renders automatically with your chosen settings.