Sawt: Read Aloud, Locally

Listen to any article read aloud by a natural voice that runs on your own computer. Free, private, no cloud.

Turn any article, blog post or selected text into natural-sounding speech, without sending a word of it to the cloud. Sawt uses Kokoro, an open-source voice model, running on your own computer. There is no account, no subscription and no usage limit, and nothing you read leaves your machine. • One click or Alt+R reads the article, skipping menus, ads and sidebars • The sentence being spoken is highlighted and kept in view • Picks up where you left off on every page • 28 English voices, American and British, adjustable speed • Right-click any selection to hear just that Setup: Sawt needs its free voice engine running on your computer. After installing the extension, a setup page opens with the steps. In short, install uv (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/), then run: uv tool install sawt sawt serve The first start downloads the voice model (about 350 MB) once. Works on macOS, Linux and Windows. English only for now.