Riddr - Text to Speech reader for Chrome

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Tired of reading? Riddr is a FREE TTS extension that can read your news, favourite blogs, emails, and PDFs in 50+ languages.

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Description from store Riddr, pronounced as /ˈ𝗿𝗶ː𝗱ə/ (reader), is a Google Chrome extension that converts any selected text to speech. Powered by the legendary 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗜𝘁! TTS engine and state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies, Riddr offers the most authentic human-like voices on the market for 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘. Combined with its easy to use interface you’re one click away from converting your favourite e-books, online news, documents and any other form of text into speech in more than 50 languages, so you can listen instead of reading. 💡 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗧𝗢 𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗜𝗧 1. Select the text you want to read. 2. Click the Riddr icon or use a custom keyboard shortcut. 3. Listen and enjoy. 🌎 𝗠𝗨𝗟𝗧𝗜-𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗨𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 Built into Riddr's core is 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗜𝘁!, a TTS engine that offers 50+ languages with built-in automatic language detection (https://riddr.com/faq/supported-languages), allowing seamless switching between multiple languages. Riddr also has deep integration with your favourite browser, which will allow you to interact with native, remote, or third-party TTS engines that are already available on your PC or Mac. On top of this, Riddr’s modular design and open source code allows developers around the world to expand the built-in TTS engines. For more information follow this link: https://riddr.com/developers. 🏕 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗦 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 Riddr can read text from everywhere on the web. Read your emails, Google Drive or PDF documents before you send them. You can use Riddr to read your favourite news websites, blogs like Medium or perhaps e-books, on a daily basis, unlimited, for free. If you can see it, Riddr probably can read it, so how you use it is up to your imagination. 🔌 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗘 Read all the time, even if you have connectivity issues or you’re in a remote rural area. Riddr’s offline mode makes it the ideal language learning tool for schools and teachers in developing countries. ⌨ 𝗖𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗭𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗖𝗨𝗧𝗦 One of Riddr’s unique features, besides predefined control shortcuts such as Read (𝗔𝗹𝘁+𝗥), Pause (𝗔𝗹𝘁+𝗣), and Stop (𝗔𝗹𝘁+𝗦), is the ability to have multiple keyboard shortcuts linked to different TTS Engines / voices in different languages, which makes Riddr not only easy to use but also very fun. New shortcuts can be added and configured very easily via the options panel. 🛠 𝗠𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗜𝗚𝗨𝗥𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗧𝗧𝗦 𝗘𝑿𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 The easy to use options panel gives you huge control over your Riddr extension and gives you the ability to add your personal touch to it. Here are some of the available options: - Customise your volume level, speaking rate & voice pitch; - Predefine your preferred language; - Transcribe a list of words and specify their pronunciation (ideal for teachers and student safety); - Enable Auto-Selection Mode, which automatically extracts and reads readable text from websites; - Automatic Read Mode allows website owners to specify which content should be read upon page entry, enhancing accessibility. 👨‍💻 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦 If you’re interested in joining the project by developing a custom TTS engine or translating Riddr into your language, step up and join us: https://github.com/riddr/RiddR/tree/master/_locales If you like the extension, please don’t forget to rate it. 😍 For any questions or requests, feel free to check out our website or contact our support at [email protected]

Latest reviews

(2025-06-05) D. Oliver: Does not work.
(2025-05-20) Josh Clark: Had it for less than 3 hours and it won't read more than a short paragraph at a time. It doesn't give options to read the whole page or to highlight what I need read. It spins for several minutes just to read 2 sentences, not even the whole paragraph. So far the only good thing about it is I can understand what it says and it's free...
(2025-05-19) shadowd3mon666: i am absolutely loving, i did find a bug tho where the accent of the spoken language even tho set to english changes to a thick heavy alternative accent for short sentences or trying to pronounce words, wont stop me from using the extention tho, great work on making something helpful for dumb readers like myself (update): giving this 5 stars now after running into a bug i contacted the dev and they fixed it quickly, i highly recommend trying this even if the reviews may not look promising
(2025-05-14) Writing this in 2025, and I've been using this extension since 2017 and I still use it almost every day — seriously, it's that good. It’s one of those tools you install once and then wonder how you ever lived without it. The voices sound great, it’s super easy to use, and it saves me so much time and energy. Whether I’m reading articles, long emails, or anything else, I just hit the button and listen. After all these years, I’m still sooo happy with it. Huge thanks to the devs for keeping it solid all these years. You’ve made something truly great, that really lasts! 🙌
(2025-05-04) Eabusham2: amazing extention, although i reccomend maker to put something saying it was speakit formally on the description or name
(2025-05-01) Thomas7399: I originally had used Read Aloud but once that broke in April, I switched to this after seeing a comment about it. However, starting today, the extension now stops reading after about 3 - 4 sentences of a paragraph. Disappointed because this extension was much, much better than Read Aloud because it was able to actually read the entire page without stopping midway between sentences or creating awkward gaps like Read Aloud. Hopefully this extension gets fixed soon too because it's my favorite by far.
(2025-04-28) Oliver Jones: Great extension, packed with lot of features! Kudos to to the developer. The name sounds familiar tho, did you had similar extension in the past mr. Petrov?
(2025-03-23) Code Design: I've tried many text-to-speech extensions, and this one is by far the best!! Honestly, huge respect to whoever made this. Thank you for creating something so helpful and making it accessible to everyone. You made my browsing experience a whole lot better <333
(2025-03-11) Heber Cloward: It will only read about 10 words then suddenly stops for some reason. I cant find anything online showing how to fix it.
(2025-03-08) Kyle Stanton: Update was a major improvement, still bugs out on reddit a lot.
(2025-03-08) Sophie Weber: Apparently SpeakIt has become Riddr now. Don't like the new name, however the new extension is WOW! Reads perfectly, its free and no account needed, I hope it will stay like that!
(2025-03-07) 2025 update: At first I had trouble finding the extension, as the developer decided to rebrand it. Instead of SpeakIt it is called Riddr now, I liked Speakit better (just the name). SpeakIt was buggy occasionally, but I got used to it and worked just fine for me. However Riddr is 10x improvement over the old extension, the speaking dont interupts as before, simplified UI, I love the ability pick paragraph to be read by clicking on it <3 And the options page, oh god, custom shortcuts is that I waited for! P.S. the controls pause/start work from my airpods
(2025-03-07) 2025 update: At first I had trouble finding the extension, as the developer decided to rebrand it. Instead of SpeakIt it is called Riddr now, I liked Speakit better (just the name). SpeakIt was buggy occasionally, but I got used to it and worked just fine for me. However Riddr is 10x improvement over the old extension, the speaking dont interupts as before, simplified UI, I love the ability pick paragraph to be read by clicking on it <3 And the options page, oh god, custom shortcuts is that I waited for! P.S. the controls pause/start work from my airpods
(2024-01-25) Hope4ThisGeneration: i like it, just wish it could read faster.
(2023-09-30) Nazarene Lakey: This developer is a God! I have found this extension endlessly useful, especially in school. Great Job Petrov! your work and talent has not gone unnoticed nor unappreciated! Спасибо
(2023-09-30) Nazarene Escamilla Lakey: This developer is a God! I have found this extension endlessly useful, especially in school. Great Job Petrov! your work and talent has not gone unnoticed nor unappreciated! Спасибо
(2023-09-18) Gladys Otero Santamarina: I highlighted a three line parragraph and it only converted to speech a single sentence. It even stopped after finishing it. Tried highlighting other pieces of text but the same happened. Very cool idea and nice speech voice, but this issue makes it unusable.
(2023-09-18) Gladys Otero Santamarina: I highlighted a three line parragraph and it only converted to speech a single sentence. It even stopped after finishing it. Tried highlighting other pieces of text but the same happened. Very cool idea and nice speech voice, but this issue makes it unusable.
(2023-06-12) Suzi Y: This is what I was looking for. Highlight and read. THANK YOU!
(2023-06-12) Suzi Y: This is what I was looking for. Highlight and read. THANK YOU!
(2023-05-25) Jared Van de Ligt: this extension is handy someone sent me a website that had a lot of reading to do, i used speak it and listened to speak it read the website was way better to have it read it to me then read it myself, i did not feel like reading the whole article, so it was nice to have speak it read it to me
(2023-05-25) Jared Van de Ligt: this extension is handy someone sent me a website that had a lot of reading to do, i used speak it and listened to speak it read the website was way better to have it read it to me then read it myself, i did not feel like reading the whole article, so it was nice to have speak it read it to me
(2023-05-21) soul mate: TTS- native
(2023-05-21) soul mate: TTS- native
(2023-04-14) Михаил Абрамов: ЧИТАЕТ 6-7 СТРОК, ЗАТЕМ ТИШИНА
(2023-04-11) lu yuan: very useful
(2023-04-11) lu yuan: very useful
(2023-02-22) RJ Smith: One of the worst ones ever created. when it dose work. 1 out of 99% of the time it good. But for the 99% of the time it fails or it read or reads everything like this. The plus plus of the plus plus is plus plus plus plus plus plus and so the plus plus is plus plus and plus plus plus plus plus plus......... What a useless thing someone has created. It could not even read this post. Do not bother wasting your time in using this.
(2023-02-22) RJ Smith: One of the worst ones ever created. when it dose work. 1 out of 99% of the time it good. But for the 99% of the time it fails or it read or reads everything like this. The plus plus of the plus plus is plus plus plus plus plus plus and so the plus plus is plus plus and plus plus plus plus plus plus......... What a useless thing someone has created. It could not even read this post. Do not bother wasting your time in using this.
(2023-02-01) Bobak Tadjalli: After I installed the extension, it redirected me to its settings page and the point that made me to put 1-star raring is that it was only using my computer's TTS (Windows 10 Pro) and not more as shown in the screenshots.
(2023-02-01) Bobak Tadjalli: After I installed the extension, it redirected me to its settings page and the point that made me to put 1-star raring is that it was only using my computer's TTS (Windows 10 Pro) and not more as shown in the screenshots.
(2023-01-04) Wouter k: Keeps rerouting me to a blocked address of sketchboy.com
(2023-01-04) Wouter k: Keeps rerouting me to a blocked address of sketchboy.com
(2022-12-17) Murphian: can not use
(2022-12-17) Murphian: can not use
(2022-11-07) Deisire Nagorski: Tem que melhorar muito, num dia funciona no outro não, não identifica o inglês no meio do português, não faz as pontuações direito e já tem tecnologia para identificar melhor as palavras hoje em dia. Aprendam com o @voice.
(2022-05-03) Sorban: Il fonctionne mais seulement pour une petite phrase de 3 ligne puis il s'arrête d'un coup. Je ne vais pas rechercher tout les 3 ligne pour qu'elle parle le texte entier !
(2021-11-03) Csaba: Jobb mint a Multivox !
(2021-10-18) Boris Enríquez: excelente
(2021-09-25) Sergey Silchenko (check32): Speakit! v0.2.92 был хорош, затем всё хуже и хуже. Убрали поддержку сторонних голосов вообще напрасно. Раньше хоть в 32bit-ной версии нормальные движки поддерживались Теперь стало совсем плохо. Снесу наверное. Буду искать что-то другое.
(2021-08-24) arm mokh: it's awesome you can change voice in extention option. you can add keyboard shortcut in chrome://extensions/shortcuts for it then just highlight words and then press your keyboard shortcut then extension will read it
(2021-08-24) arm mokh: it's awesome you can change voice in extention option. you can add keyboard shortcut in chrome://extensions/shortcuts for it then just highlight words and then press your keyboard shortcut then extension will read it
(2021-07-24) Gerardo DZ: Desearia que tuviera mas voces, pero en general me encanta, me ha facilitado la vida, y adoro poder tenerlo
(2021-07-23) Chonita Foster: i love it but hate the fact that it constantly stops. Why is it doing this i have to constantly uninstall and reinstall it. Its really becoming annoying
(2021-07-23) Chanae Foster: i love it but hate the fact that it constantly stops. Why is it doing this i have to constantly uninstall and reinstall it. Its really becoming annoying
(2021-06-02) Alexander Nikitin: Пытаюсь пользоваться этим расширением много лет. Но постоянные глюки. Хочет читает, хочет нет. Постоянно слетают настройки. Как можно быть таким криворуким? Кофе упился разработчик что-ли?
(2021-04-15) Negrean Sergiu Aurelian: liar. not romanian!
(2021-04-15) Negrean Sergiu Aurelian: liar. not romanian!
(2021-04-10) Yul Firell: Читает половину предложения, замолкает и всё.
(2021-04-02) Ruwantha Lankathilaka: No other plugin give natural reading except this one and it is absolutely free

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