French Reader

Learn French pronunciation with IPA on any web page or PDF: hover dictionary, read-aloud, translation and spaced repetition.

French Reader — IPA Pronunciation, Dictionary & Learning for French Web Pages and PDFs French is written one way and pronounced another. Accents, silent letters and liaison make every unfamiliar word a guess. French Reader puts IPA phonetic transcription on the text itself — on any web page and inside PDFs — so you read and hear the correct pronunciation without leaving the page. ✨ IPA & PRONUNCIATION • Automatic IPA on any French web page — hover one word, or annotate the whole page at once • A pronunciation lexicon of 140,000+ words, plus a rule-based grapheme-to-phoneme engine for words not in the lexicon • Liaison detection in 4 categories — obligatory, common, optional and rare — marked with solid, dashed and dotted underlines • Homograph disambiguation — when a spelling has more than one reading, context selects the right one • Reference standard and Contemporary Paris transcription, switchable with one click • Colored IPA (vowels, consonants, stress in different colors) or monochrome • Common-word filter hides annotation on words you already know, across 5 CEFR-based levels (A1–C1) 📖 DICTIONARY & GRAMMAR • Hover dictionary: IPA, definitions, CEFR level, frequency, lemma, and word forms • Definitions in 10 languages — English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, Français, Deutsch, Español, 日本語, 한국어, Русский, Tiếng Việt • Sentence Mode breaks a sentence down word by word, with karaoke-style playback and translation • Reading Analysis: word, sentence and paragraph counts, estimated CEFR level, readability, difficult words, repeated words and phrases • Focus Mode dims everything except the word, sentence or paragraph you are reading 🔊 TEXT-TO-SPEECH • Reads French aloud with your browser's text-to-speech voice, highlighting each word as it goes • Speak a selection, a sentence or a single word — from the page, the PDF reader or the right-click menu • Speed from 0.5× to 2.0×, and a voice picker when you have more than one French voice 🌐 TRANSLATION • Translate any selection into 100+ languages through Bing or Google Translate • Inline bubble with a copy button — no API key, no sign-in 📄 PDF READER • IPA on French PDFs, drawn as a separate overlay so the original page is never modified • Online PDFs open in the reader automatically; local files open by drag-and-drop or by pasting a URL • Full-text search, outline and thumbnail sidebar, zoom, download and print • Dark, Light and Eye Care themes; password-protected files are supported • The same hover dictionary, Sentence Mode, Reading Analysis and read-aloud work inside the PDF • Save words straight from a PDF into your word book 📚 LEARNING • Save any word, phrase or sentence from a page or a PDF, together with the sentence it came from • Spaced-repetition review (FSRS) with 8 exercise types, including listening and spelling • Daily goal, a new-items limit, and a due-count badge on the Learn button in the popup • CEFR word levels; optionally skip words already at your level • Export to CSV or JSON, and import your backup back ⌨️ SHORTCUTS • Alt+Shift+R annotate · Alt+Shift+S speak · Alt+Shift+T translate · Alt+Shift+E sentence mode (Control+Shift on macOS; all re-bindable) • Select text for a floating toolbar (speak, translate, sentence mode); right-click a selection to speak or translate it, or a PDF link to open it in the reader 🔒 PRIVACY IPA, the dictionary, grapheme-to-phoneme, reading analysis, PDF rendering and your word book all run on your device — the lexicon and fonts ship inside the extension. Text leaves your browser only when you press Translate, or when you pick an online browser voice for read-aloud. No analytics, no telemetry, no account, no server of ours. 🌍 INTERFACE 53 interface languages, following your browser automatically. Free, with no ads and no account.