Read Out Loud
Extension Actions
- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
Use Read out loud to read aloud on any site. This online TTS tool lets you enjoy text to speech and read text out loud easily.
🎧 Try Read out loud – your friendly voice that reads everything for you
Tired of staring at screens for hours? Let Read out loud take over and turn any text into speech. Whether it’s an article, a document, or a long email – this Chrome extension to read text out loud is here to help. With a few simple clicks, enjoy natural voices reading your content back to you.
Why is Read out loud good?
🎤 It sounds real: Enjoy human-like voices for a smoother listening experience.
🎤 It’s easy: Just a few clicks and it starts reading out loud.
🎤 It’s private: We don’t use or share your personal data.
🎤 It works where you work: Supports PDFs, Google Docs, and more.
What can it read?
1. Long articles and blog posts
2. Emails and newsletters
3. Google Docs and PDFs
4. School essays and reports
5. Any passages on websites
How to use it?
1️⃣ Install Read out loud from the Chrome Web Store — it takes seconds.
2️⃣ Click the extension icon on any website, PDF, or Google Doc you want to read.
3️⃣ Choose language or adjust the speed by clicking on the widget.
4️⃣ Click “Play” in the widget / Select the excerpt you want to hear and right-click it.
5️⃣ Listen as the passage is read aloud with clear, natural voice.
Who is it for?
💡 Students who want to read essay out loud before submitting
💡 Professionals who prefer listening to reports via a text reader tool
💡 People with dyslexia or visual impairments using a voice generator for accessibility
💡 Language learners who want to hear pronunciation while reading text out loud
Key use cases
⭐️ Reading out loud your notes before a presentation
⭐️ Listening to long blog posts while doing chores
⭐️ Using it as a voice generator for proofreading
⭐️ Text to voice conversion for efficient learning
⭐️ Turn articles into audio for long commutes
Features you’ll love
📚 Adjustable reading speed
📚 Choose your favorite voice
📚 Highlight as it narrates
📚 Resume where you left off
Reasons to use Read out loud extension
With just a few clicks, turn text to speech using natural voices that actually sound human. Whether you need to listen to a website, a document, or just want the internet to read my text out loud while you do something else — we’ve got you covered.
Use Read out loud to…
- Narrate your essay before submitting it to catch typos or awkward phrasing
- Turn text to voice during revision, helping you absorb the content better
- Read text aloud while cooking or cleaning, so you can stay productive
- Use it as a simple way to reduce eye strain and improve focus when reading
Multiple ways to listen
▸ Read text out loud from almost any webpage
▸ Read aloud text to speech for documents
▸ Online TTS with real-time voice
▸ Your personal text to speech reader
Why Read out loud stands out
🌟 Delivers realistic text to voice quality that sounds natural and easy to listen to
🌟 Respects your privacy — no data is collected or shared with third parties
🌟 Works instantly with no setup or learning curve needed
🌟 A read aloud extension designed to be simple, helpful, and user-friendly
🌟 Supports text to speach in PDFs, Google Docs, and many other formats
Customize your reading experience
➤ Choose text to read out loud
➤ Find your comfortable pitch and pace
➤ Listen to websites in different languages
➤ Use it like a mini TTS reader right in your browser
FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Does Read out loud work in Google Docs?
A: Yes! You can read document directly from Google Docs.
Q: Can it read my PDF files?
A: Absolutely. Use it to read PDF out loud with just a click.
Q: Is my data private?
A: Absolutely. We don’t track, store, or sell anything. Read out loud works without any personal data.
Q: Do I need an account to use it?
A: Nope. No account, no signup. Just install and start reading text out loud.
Q: Can I choose different voices?
A: Yes, we have a variety of languages and voices, find your match!
Q: Will it work offline?
A: This extension requires an internet connection to work properly.
Q: Is it safe for children or students to use?
A: Definitely. It’s ad-free, tracks nothing, and makes reading text out loud easier for learners of all ages.
Q: What is this tool exactly?
A: It’s a read out loud extension and a tts reader. It's great if you want text to speech, a natural reader, or just someone to read to me.
Ready to listen?
Download Read out loud - text to speech online tool now and start enjoying the freedom to listen to websites anywhere, anytime. Whether you need a natural reader while you do your chores or simply to have a break from screen fatigue — just click and ask to read it to me.
Latest reviews
- Ashish Alexander
- works great
- Ted Beckam
- English speakers pronounce “I'd” as “ID.”
- Namo Nymus
- Wish it had Farsi (Persian) language too. Love it. Simple, intelligent programming. Specially icon to read lines.
- Anissa Harris Green
- It has been very helpful for me while in college. It is able to read specially formatted reading materials that other TTS software is unable to do. It sounds more human than the typical robot voice; for FREE! Love it! It has helped cut my reading from several hours for one chapter to just one! Download it now!
- Anoir Ben Tanfous
- Better and more stable than most of other TTS... Not a lot of features or voices to select from but at least it works almost all the time!
- Matthew
- Select the text you want read and a play button will appear. Click and listen!
- Rahul Shaw
- Very Good
- Jason Walker Sr
- it works like it supposed to. Its great when your eyes are tired but still have things to do
- For Education
- free & hearable voices
- Jake Solano
- awesome !
- Farhan Ahmed
- Fantastic!
- Daniel Torres
- Doesn't work.
- Ste Pha
- AWESOME
- Janvi Jaiswal
- Great tool! It works super well on pdfs and websites, but not so much on downloaded ones but I usually just copy paste it into a google doc and have that read out loud. I loveee that I can highlight a specific paragraph and have only that one read out to me and I love that it goes up to 2.5x speed, pretty sure other extensions don't do that! I have such a hard time sitting down and reading but this tool helps me out so much! Thank you Read Out Loud :)
- Jack Beckman
- Complaints: - Completely restarts reading anytime you adjust speed or voices - Can't read downloaded PDF's - Some websites, you can't decide where it starts to read, so it starts reading from the very beginning of the page (even if that part isn't part of the reading itself) - Voice will pause after random words when there's no punctuation present Praises: - Glad it can go to 2.5x speed instead of just 1x. - Reads odd contractions like s'pose and 'em correctly
- Shining Windows
- Highly recommended. Very stable, fantastic quality female voice for fast paced work flows.
- Mehran Aminpoor
- Excellent
- Marcel Alhind
- amazingly good
- Ankush Sethi
- Overall Fantastic! Gets stuck a 1 out of 20 times where you need to refresh the page for some reason. Not really a problem though. Non-Intrustive and Minimal design makes it just very convenient to use.
- Charlotte White
- Work great as long as you are able to highlight text. With certain pdfs and documents its not helpful due to that issue, but overall it works great.
- stephen brannen
- Won't start reading. Stuck on "loading" the text.
- Egor K
- so far i am very happy. voice is not robotic, works with all sites i visited so far, like ms learning, etc - where reading out actually makes lots of sense. no glitches noticed and so far no paywall visible, will see how this goes... ps. there is a limitation as it looks like on some sites. chrome web store is one of them, e.g. pss. did not try out anything other than english so far.
- PeggySue Werthessen
- So far this is working great. Although the number of voices is quite limited, they are of good quality (not robotic). I wish that I could increase the speed beyond 2.5X. (I have been able to go as high as 4x in other tools which is rough but perfect when skimming). I have not encountered any paywall so I am hopeful that this is truly free. I wish the Chrome would install a native reader like Edge but until then, this is a great solution. There are a few "glitches" when reading. The most notable are "&" and Roman Numerals. The inability to recognize the & is the most annoying given my reading material... but I bump into lists that enumerated in roman numerals as well. The other issue that I had was the it skipped over a table in the document I was looking at. But I just read this separately. All in all... very useful and high quality. Would definitely recommend.
- Sergey
- It's just great, cool extension!
- Vitali Trystsen
- Thank you! This extension is really handy and easy to use. It makes reading web pages so much more convenient.
- Loic COBBINA
- Using it on Vivaldi. Works just fine. The Voice sounds natural, very enjoying to listen to it.
- Iuga Roland (MrFreak)
- Doesn't load. It remains blocked on the thinking process and not reading...
- Jasmine
- Excellent, shows real voices!
- Katya Kovaleva
- Perfect extension for people who prefer audio content (like me), or just don’t have the time or patience to read long pdfs, but still want more than just a summary (also me). It doesn’t auto-detect the page language, but that’s totally fine. And the English voice is not annoying! :D
- Виктор Дмитриевич
- Excellent, shows real voices!
- Sitonlinecomputercen
- I would say that,Read Out Loud Extension is very important in this world.So i use it.Thank