ReadFollow: Text to Speech with Word Highlights

Reads text aloud and highlights each word on the page as it is spoken. Works on web pages and PDFs, offline or with online voices.

ReadFollow reads text aloud and highlights each word on the page as it is spoken, so you can follow along with your eyes. HOW TO USE IT - Select text on any page and press Alt+O, or right-click it and choose "Read aloud selected text". - The sentence being read turns blue and the current word is marked in amber and underlined. - A small bar gives you previous and next sentence, pause, speed and stop. Drag it anywhere; it remembers the spot on each site. - Click any word in the selection to jump there. - With nothing selected, the toolbar button reads the whole page. PDFS TOO PDFs open in a built-in PDF.js viewer with the same highlighting. No PDF is uploaded anywhere. VOICES - The voices on your computer, which highlight word by word. - Piper voices: natural voices you download once that then run on your device, offline. - Google Translate voices for many languages. - Your own OpenAI, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Polly or IBM Watson account. For voices that don't report word positions, ReadFollow works out the word from the length of each piece of audio, so the highlight keeps time with the voice. MADE TO BE READ Highlight colors to choose from, including an underline-only style, light and dark themes, full keyboard use, and an interface in 27 languages, including Arabic and Hebrew right to left. YOUR TEXT With the voices on your computer and Piper voices, text never leaves your device. Online voices receive only the text you ask them to read. ReadFollow has no account, no analytics and no ads. Free and open source (MIT), built on Read Aloud by Hai Phan: https://github.com/MashdorDev/readfollow Not affiliated with or endorsed by Read Aloud or its author.