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Read aloud the current web-page article with one click, using text to speech (TTS). Supports 40+ languages.
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Read Aloud uses text-to-speech (TTS) technology to convert webpage text to audio. It works on a variety of websites, including news sites, blogs, fan fiction, publications, textbooks, school and course materials. Read Aloud helps users who prefer to listen to content instead of reading, including children learning to read and those with dyslexia or other learning disabilities.
Read Aloud allows you to select from a variety of text-to-speech voices, including native voices provided by the browser and AI voices from cloud providers such as Google Wavenet, Amazon Polly, IBM Watson, Microsoft Azure, and OpenAI. Cloud-based voices may require additional in-app purchase or bringing your own API key to enable.
Read Aloud can read PDF, Google Docs, Google Play books, Amazon Kindle, and EPUB (via the excellent EPUBReader extension from epubread.com).
To use Read Aloud, navigate to the web page you want to read, then click the Read Aloud icon on the browser menu. You can also use the shortcut keys ALT-P, ALT-O, ALT-Comma, and ALT-Period to activate the extension. If some text is selected, Read Aloud will read only the selected text. Additionally, you can right click the text selection and start Read Aloud from the context menu.
To change the voice, reading speed, pitch, or enable text highlighting, go to the Options page via the Gear button on the extension popup (you'll need to stop playback to see the Gear button). You can also access the Options page from the context menu by right clicking the extension icon.
On the extension popup, there are buttons to increase/decrease the the size of the popup window, the font size, as well as toggle dark mode.
Read Aloud is an open-source project. If you wish to contribute bug fixes or translations, please visit the GitHub page at https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud
Latest reviews
- (2025-08-14) Pavel P: Great useful app extension one of the best available
- (2025-08-13) Nia: Very useful.
- (2025-08-12) Damaris Gonzalez: its not reading for me it keeps saying coudnt read text
- (2025-08-12) Ivan Lamden: ultra ugly voices, impossible to hear
- (2025-08-10) callanyonefrompc: Could be a lot better. It is as basic as a TTS extension can get. Either use an ugly popup window, or right click selected text and use the context menu. No faster left-click button options. No shortcut hotkeys. Other extensions show the various blocks of text you can select and left-clicking will automatically select that highlighted block. But on this extension, you have to click and drag your mouse to select an area. It's okay if you just want something basic, but I'm looking for something with more polish and more features.
- (2025-08-07) Esther Unachukwu: helpful for school
- (2025-08-04) Ali Reza Barkhordari: Very useful extension. If it highlighted the sentence or word being read, it would be perfect.
- (2025-07-31) Ty Buchanan: The voice is in British (posh) English. It is difficult to understand. In short ,Google Read Allowed is useless. It should give a list voices to chooe from.
- (2025-07-30) Claire Jacobs: Works alright for what it is. Has some issues with registering grammar (eg. not recognising when to finish reading dialogue as a sentence, and instead runs into the next one.), as well as skipping one-line sentences that might be offset from the rest of the text. Otherwise, I haven't had any other issues.
- (2025-07-29) Meg: No lee
- (2025-07-29) fermin salaberry: 5/5 perfect! JUST PERFECT! I can finaly start digging in my google play books list and soon enough I will have to get new books! Simple... efficient...
- (2025-07-25) Raghavendhar Sekar: Super cool
- (2025-07-23) Alexander Pushkin: Best TTS extension. Big thanks to creators.
- (2025-07-21) Comrade Max: the offered voices often sound weird, maybe a way to star and pin the ones preferred by user could be useful, also, some internet pages dont allow the use of this extension, and i get it, "policies" or whatever.. but having an alternative to do it anyways would be appreciated, like idk some page to ctrl+c ctrl+v the text i want and still regardless have it read to me, that would be an almost universal solution (and really preferably without any severe limit like text-length)
- (2025-07-19) Electrophon: Excellent extension for reading college textbooks pdfs. Although the speed is capped at x10. If possible, please increase the limit of the speed. Thank you for making this extension!
- (2025-07-18) Nathan Guiger: Stopped working unless I leave it on auto voice select, utter garbage
- (2025-07-15) John Weiss: Powerful, but not lightweight. Access to many free natural voices! Works great.
- (2025-07-10) Sissy Cooley: Horrible! Uses zero recognition of grammar and punctuation. Reads everything (regardless of speed setting) as one long run on sentence, making it impossible to follow or comprehend the material.
- (2025-07-10) eDee Bruns: I highlight an area, but it starts at the beginning of the Google doc every time - completely useless. It's like it doesn't realize it's only supposed to read the highlighted area.
- (2025-07-09) Jose Javier Perez Rosa: Love it! This is what I needed for college textbooks. Once again, thank you!
- (2025-07-08) Nathaniel Honomichl: voice is very clear doesn't lag crome on my low end device and actually pronounces words very clearly
- (2025-07-03) Jordan: This Read Aloud Extension is good not the best. I'm using 1 AI voice on this extension that's worked and sound good. This extension is at least good enough I'll keep using it
- (2025-06-30) Alejandro Bermudez: yeah. it works. but its not good.
- (2025-06-29) Samuel Robinson: Works as intended.
- (2025-06-26) Vedaant Upadhyay: it's just good
- (2025-06-26) the mathias: (Broken Again) I use this nearly every day, but lately, the voice just stops before reading a single full sentence. It gives the Error of "Timeout, TTS never started, try picking another voice?" but it's the same voice i have been used the entire time. and it does the same when i click on the "Test" button
- (2025-06-25) Mirrani: What has happened to my beloved read aloud?! I used to use this all the time, for just about everything. Now it reads a couple words and shuts down. Sure, it tells you to change voices and try again, but from what I've worked out it does this with every voice. Bummer. This was my most trusted add on to help me read pages that my old eyes are too tired to squint at any more. Super bummed. Please, please developer, consider fixing this issue.
- (2025-06-19) Leon Hoang: This extensions used to be good, but now it is horrendous. Constantly requiring to grant permission from Google to read. Sometime the extensions stucked in a loop where even afer following the instruction on the google site to grant permisison, it asked for permission again. Absolute trash now.
- (2025-06-19) Cheuk nam Wu: not accurate
- (2025-06-18) Paul Greatrex: Stops after a couple of words-no use to me.
- (2025-06-15) Sathwik Krishna Kunapareddy: Works well with almost all websites. The only one I had trouble with was Amazon's Kindle. It's only reading the first 10-15 characters of a line and skipping to the next line where the same happens until the end of the page. I hope that gets fixed.
- (2025-06-14) Hiuyi: Great for a FREE TTS reader. Customizable voices, and speeds. I can open the text in a separate window and enjoy the TTS at my own pace. Sentences being read are highlighted, so you can easily keep up. Amazing for reading Google Play Books, automatically flips the page.
- (2025-06-10) Omid Hassasfar: Most of the time, can not read and finish the highlighted sentence.
- (2025-06-10) Aleksi Vasquez: This extension worked fine for me when I downloaded it last year. Now it won't even access the pages I try to have it read for me, no matter what I do. It stops suddenly after reading 3 or 4 words, sometimes not even that many. I'm very disappointed since it used to work. Needs updating BADLY.
- (2025-06-09) Amy Glass: cannot access contents of the page extension manifest error the second time i try to use tts on the same website. annoying.
- (2025-06-09) T: What a terrible robovoice. This is not up to modern standards.
- (2025-06-08) Nexmeift: skips around pages too much.
- (2025-06-06) games games: The app is just awesome. Huge thanks to the creators! I suggest considering adding Elevenlabs voices.
- (2025-06-05) Texas Doehring: The only text to speech option I've found that works as of June 6th 2025
- (2025-06-04) isabella smith: i've been using read aloud for, probably, 5 years now. i have always used google uk female voice. sometimes, like once every 4 or so months, that voice on the extension will stop working and glitches out (reading only the first few words of a sentence over and over again or not starting at all) and sometimes restarting my computer helps. if not, usually this will only last 12 or so hours and would start working again. however this time it been down for over two days. the only voice that works is the default voice which i hate. i love read aloud. no alternative i've tried does what i need it to like this one. i don't want super natural sounding voices. i don't want ai. i want google uk female voice pitched and speed up just a tad. i want a pop up that i can close if i want, or leave up and have it scroll through the text for me. i don't want to have to click every individual paragraph to get it to start reading. read aloud does everything i need it to, and more. i just wish it was more reliable.
- (2025-06-02) nina liu: this worked pretty well for a couple of weeks until last week, when it suddenly won't play unless you only the microsoft voices, which are horribly bad quality. if you want to use a different voice, it will not load the tts. this makes it extremely frustrating to use. hopefully they'll fix this issue
- (2025-06-02) Kevin Trejo: Hey i love the product i am using google tts api's but for some reason it looks like the extension has castillian Spanish twice. Could you please update it and include ES-US thats how i see that google has it
- (2025-06-01) Fluffey: works again :) EDIT: nvm stopped working again
- (2025-06-01) Roger Kenco: not bad, however I am looking for a more natural voice...
- (2025-05-30) Quartus Thomas: I'm a simple man. I learn better while reading and listening to text. All I wanted was something to use at a moments notice online or offline. Especially offline this extension can be used with offline HTML webpages.
- (2025-05-21) Mohamed Magdy: the voice and audio quality are bad
- (2025-05-20) Ryan Miller: Lacks basic features like being able to pause when reading.
- (2025-05-19) blah blah blah: mine didnt work on pdfs
- (2025-05-15) David Metcalfe: This had a lot of potential, but between the developer's paternalistic hesitancy around adding more expensive paid voices, and general bugginess and issues with the extension itself, I can't in good faith recommend this one anymore. Alternatives like "Human Reader, powered by ElevenLabs" are far better out of the box and within the same typical price range.
- (2025-05-12) San Rezaei: The quality as poor as I'd rather to read it myself.