Murmur: Read Aloud

Listen to web pages read aloud. Point at any text to hear it, with a player that stays with you as you browse.

Murmur reads web pages out loud. Open an article, press Read page, and listen while you do something else. Or switch on the on-page player and just point: turn on Select text, hover over any paragraph, heading, link or button, and click to hear it. Shift+click to pick several blocks and hear them in order. The text being read is highlighted as you listen. The player stays on screen as you move between pages in the same tab, so you can pause, skip a sentence or change the speed without opening anything. What you can do • Read the main text of a page, or only the text you have selected • Point and read: hover to outline a block, click to hear it, Shift+click to pick several blocks and read them together • Follow along: the text being read is highlighted as it is read • Move through a page with the keyboard: Up and Down read the next or previous block, Enter reads it again, Shift+Enter opens a link, S picks the current block, Space pauses, Esc clears your selection and then turns Select text off • Hear links described by their name followed by "link" (never the web address), and buttons, headings, images and form fields described the same way • Control reading from the page: previous sentence, next sentence, pause, stop and speed • Choose a voice and a speed from 0.5x to 2x • See whether your computer can keep up, and get specific suggestions if it can't (memory, processor, battery) • Use it in English, Spanish, French, German or Portuguese (interface only) Made for everyone who listens Murmur is built so it can be used without a mouse, with clear labels for assistive technology, visible focus and a high-contrast highlight. It is meant for people who are blind or have low vision, people with dyslexia or eye strain, and anyone who would rather listen than read. Keyboard shortcuts (change them at chrome://extensions/shortcuts) • On-page player on or off: Alt+Shift+P • Pause or resume: Alt+Shift+K • Stop: Alt+Shift+X Your privacy Murmur doesn't send the text it reads to the developer or to anyone else. It has no accounts, no analytics and no ads. The first time you read something it downloads its speech files (about 90 MB) from huggingface.co, plus a small file (under 1 MB) the first time you use each voice, and your browser keeps them for next time. Settings stay in your browser. Full details are in the privacy policy. Murmur is free. If you find it useful, the popup has an optional "Buy a coffee" button to support its development. Nothing is locked behind it. Good to know • The first read needs an internet connection and takes a little longer while the speech files download. Trying a new voice for the first time downloads a small extra file. • The voice speaks English. Text in other languages won't be read well. • Chrome doesn't allow extensions on its built-in PDF viewer, on browser pages (chrome://, the new tab page) or on the Web Store, so Murmur doesn't work there. • Reading a very long page on a slow or busy computer can pause between sentences. The Performance tab shows why and what to change.