Reedr — Text-to-speech
The simplest text-to-speech extension.
A text-to-speech extension featuring incredible features such as sentence skipping, volume controls, speed controls, and more to come! Multi-task with ease. Too busy to read long-winded articles? Let Reedr read articles, messages, and more while you browse other tabs!
How to use:
- Go to a web page with selectable text
- Open the extension to display the toolbar (located at the bottom right of the screen)
- Drag and select (highlight) the text that you'd like to listen to
- Press play!
Version 2.0.0: (1/22/25)
* Upgrades to Manifest 3!
* Adds a progress bar to see selection progress!
* Bug fixes, UI fixes, and general improvements!
Version 1.1.1: (12/7/19)
* Adds tooltips when hovering over a button
* Adds a dedicated stop button
* Updates functionality of play / pause button. Pause will no longer reset speech synthesis. Now, it will pause speech synthesis. Clicking play will then resume playback.
* Updates app name
* Fixes some styling issues
* Miscellaneous improvements
Version 1.0.0: (11/26/19)
* Select a range of text to play
* Skip to the next sentence
* Go back to the previous sentence
* Set the volume for speech
* Set the speed for speech (0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0)
* Speech synthesis for English text
* Stop speech synthesis
Latest reviews
Yay!Finally have free text to speech addon!
Yay!Finally have free text to speech addon!
Does not work. Instructions state to click the extension to open the toolbar but nothing happens. It is completely useless.
Does not work. Instructions state to click the extension to open the toolbar but nothing happens. It is completely useless.
Does not work
