Local Reader

Unlimited local text-to-speech for webpages and PDFs using Kokoro-82M.

Local Reader reads text aloud in Chrome with Kokoro, a high-quality open speech model that runs entirely on your computer. • Alt+click any sentence on a webpage to start reading from there, with the sentence highlighted as it is spoken. • Read PDFs, including scanned PDFs (text recognition also runs on your computer). • Paste any text and have it read aloud. • 28 English voices (American and British), speed from 0.5× to 2×, bookmarks, and keyboard shortcuts. • Save audio as a WAV file. • A small floating player follows you from tab to tab. Privacy: the text you have read aloud never leaves your computer. There are no accounts, ads, analytics or tracking. The speech model (about 92–325 MB, depending on your computer) is downloaded once from Hugging Face the first time you listen. After that, reading needs no internet connection. Needs a graphics card that Chrome can use (WebGPU), which most computers from the last few years have. Without one, speech is made on the processor, which is far too slow for continuous listening: you hear a sentence, then a long pause.