Read Text Aloud

Use Read Text Aloud as a text to speech reader and read aloud extension: hear web pages or pasted notes, each sentence highlighted.

Read Text Aloud – listen to web pages, sentence by sentence Click the icon and the page starts to speak. This text to speech reader for Chrome voices the main article, highlights the sentence you hear and, where supported, the current word. A small player in the corner lets you pause, skip a sentence or change the speed without leaving the tab. No account, no sign-up, nothing to set up. 🚀 HOW TO START 1. Open an article, a blog post or any long page in Chrome. 2. Click the extension icon or press Alt+Shift+R (⌥⇧R on a Mac). 3. Listen while the current sentence lights up and scrolls into view. 4. Pause, go back, skip ahead or stop with the player in the bottom-right corner. 🎧 FIVE WAYS TO START LISTENING ➤ Icon click – the main article, or only the passage you selected ➤ Right-click a selection – Read selection aloud ➤ Right-click a paragraph – Read from here, to the end of the article ➤ Alt+Shift+R – start, pause and resume from the keyboard ➤ The Paste text tab – for words that are not on a web page This read aloud Chrome extension keeps your place. The page scrolls so the highlighted sentence stays in view, and the popup shows the sentence number and the minutes left. Stop in the middle, come back to the tab later and continue where you left off. 📝 YOUR OWN WORDS, SPOKEN Got a draft essay or meeting notes? Open the paste tab from the popup, paste text to read aloud and press play. 1️⃣ Your words appear in paragraphs with the same highlighting 2️⃣ A word count and the time left stay in view 3️⃣ Your notes are saved on this computer until you press Clear Instead of a website to read text aloud, you get a read to me text box that opens in a second. ⚙️ VOICE AND SPEED ▸ Speed from 0.75× to 2×, changed on the fly ▸ Voices installed on your computer – used by default and available offline ▸ Online Google voices, clearly labeled, for a different sound ▸ Your voice choice is remembered for each language ▸ Dark theme that follows your system setting ▸ A keyboard shortcut you can change in Chrome settings Want a text to speech Chrome extension that simply works? This read aloud text to speech extension keeps the main controls on the page, so you get text to speech read aloud with highlighting right where you are. 👥 WHO IT HELPS - Students who read text out loud from course pages or hear long articles at 1.5× - People with dyslexia, low vision or tired eyes - Writers who catch mistakes by ear: a draft heard as read out loud text shows every clumsy line - Anyone who wants the news spoken while cooking or tidying up If you ever typed read this to me or read it to me into a search box, this is that button. Hear your text read aloud by the voices you already have. 🔒 PRIVACY BY DEFAULT By default, your text stays on this computer: the voices on your device do the speaking, and they work offline too. Online Google voices carry a label; if you pick one, Chrome sends the words to Google to turn them into speech. A read aloud extension does not need to see every site you visit. This one works only on the tab where you click the icon, press the shortcut or choose a menu item. No account and no analytics. 💡 GOOD TO KNOW ∙ Chrome's own pages, the Chrome Web Store and the New Tab page can't be spoken ∙ Words inside images are skipped ∙ Sound quality depends on the voice; word highlighting needs a voice that reports each word ∙ The main article is found automatically – select a passage for exact control ∙ Leaving or reloading the page stops playback; after a reload you can continue ❓ FAQ How is this different from apps that read text aloud? Nothing to install outside Chrome and no copying between windows: the page you are on is spoken in place. Do I need software to read text aloud on a laptop? No. Chrome on a computer is enough; Windows, macOS and ChromeOS usually have speech built in. Can it read for me while I do something else? Yes. Start it and look away – it keeps going until the end or until you pause it. Does it do read aloud text to speech in other languages? Yes, when your system or Chrome has a voice for that language. Is there a text reader for my own notes? Yes, the paste tab: paste anything you copied and press play. Can I use it as an app to read text aloud online? Yes, on news sites, blogs and wikis – most pages with plain paragraphs work. Do I still need websites that read text aloud? Not for the open page: it is spoken directly, without copy and paste. Read Text Aloud is an independent extension and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google LLC. Google, Chrome and Google Docs are trademarks of Google LLC.