beNotable! Reader

Listen to articles, web pages and PDFs with local AI voices, word highlighting and dark mode. No account, no upload.

Listen to long texts instead of reading them: beNotable! Reader reads articles, web pages, PDFs and books aloud. The passage being spoken is highlighted, and a click on a word jumps to exactly that spot. The AI voices run right on your device, with no extra program and no account. Nothing starts by itself: you click the icon and press play. Getting started • Web page or article in a tab: click the icon (or press Alt+Shift+V) and the reading bar appears on the page. • PDF or book: in the icon menu choose Extras > “Open PDFs & books” and drop in the file. A PDF shown in the browser's own viewer cannot be read by the bar. • On first use the extension downloads the voice you pick, only after your click (about 20 to 330 MB, depending on the voice). After that it reads aloud without internet. You can delete every voice again. Scanned PDFs without text recognition stay silent. What you get • Voice choice: more than 100 voices in 13 languages with audio sample, filter, size and quality (with ratings from public rankings where they exist). Alternatively use your system voices. • Focus view: just the content, no banners or navigation. You set font, size, line spacing and width. • Dark mode: easy on the eyes in the evening, light, dark or follow your system. • Follow along: the view scrolls with the passage being read, so you never lose your line. You can switch it off. • Saved positions: continue later where you stopped. Only the position is stored, never the content. • Chapters and remaining time for long texts, plus speed, volume, tone (pitch, bass, treble), pause between sections and skips right in the bar. • Settings in four tabs, highlight color of your choice, keyboard shortcuts for the whole bar, settings backup as a file. • Interface in six languages. Experimental (optional) An extra stage offers large voices (Qwen3-TTS, 0.7 to 1.5 GB). It needs WebGPU and Chrome 137 or newer, is slower than real time, unreliable with technical text and addresses, and is never loaded by itself. If your browser lacks WebGPU, a button leads to the matching browser setting. Requires Chrome 137 or newer on the desktop. If something does not work for you, please write to us (contact on reader.benotable.de). Create an audiobook A whole text or book is rendered on your device as an audio file, with progress and cancel. On our website this works in the browser for free. The download in the extension is part of Premium. Free and Premium Free, with no time limit: listening, focus view, dark mode and saved positions. Premium unlocks the downloads in the extension: a whole book or text as an audio file, articles and documents as a cleaned-up file in your chosen look. The regular price is 4.99 EUR per month, 49.99 EUR per year, or a single payment of 99 EUR (Lifetime, no further cost for these downloads). Current prices and time-limited offers are listed on reader.benotable.de. All prices include VAT, subscriptions end when the current period ends if you cancel. Payment is handled by Stripe on our website, not in the store. The seller is Burak Basci, not Google. I am a single independent developer: Premium helps me keep developing beNotable! Reader. Privacy No ads, no trackers, no upload of your files. Access is limited to the tab you choose by clicking the icon. Voices are fetched from huggingface.co after your click, without your content (your IP address is visible to them). Only if you activate Premium, our license server receives the activation code, a license proof and a random device ID, never content or audio. On removal, the browser opens a thank-you page of our website; no data is sent. Details: https://reader.benotable.de/privacy Source code and licenses: https://github.com/burak-basci/notable-reader. The extension is licensed GPL-3.0 or later because the speech output includes eSpeak NG. Licenses of the speech models and components: THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md in the repository.