VowelMarks - Persian/Farsi Reading & Understanding Assistant

Read and understand Persian/Farsi in place: vowel marks, pronunciation, word origins, and a personal AI tutor that explains it.

Read Persian where you find it, with the pronunciation cues ordinary writing leaves out. VowelMarks is a Persian/Farsi reading assistant for heritage speakers, learners, students, and anyone who understands more Persian than they can comfortably read. Select a word, sentence, or passage. Mark all the Persian currently visible on a webpage. Or keep whole-page marking on as you scroll and new content appears. VowelMarks adds contextual short vowels, Ezafe, and other reading cues directly to the original Persian, then lets you clear the temporary reading layer whenever you want. Persian stays at the center. Pinglish, English, speech, and AI help appear only when you ask for them. READ PERSIAN WITH THE CUES IT NORMALLY OMITS - Add contextual short vowels, Ezafe, and pronunciation cues directly to Persian text. - Use the surrounding sentence to clarify words that can have more than one reading. - Inspect why a mark appears, choose another reading for that occurrence, or report a result that looks wrong. - Mark one selection, the visible page, or continue marking Persian as you scroll. - Use Before You Read to preview words and patterns that may slow you down. - Adjust reading density and use Reading Comfort for larger type, more spacing, or a focused reading panel. CONNECT THE SCRIPT TO THE PERSIAN YOU ALREADY KNOW - Reveal Ezafe-aware Pinglish without replacing the Persian script. - Choose familiar long vowels such as "aa" or academic notation such as "ā." - Hear a selected word, sentence, or passage spoken aloud. - Adjust the voice and playback pace to make difficult lines easier to follow. UNDERSTAND THE WORD IN THIS SENTENCE - See what a selected word means in its current context. - Explore its word origin, historical pathway, and supporting evidence. - Compare Persian alternatives and Academy-approved terminology when available. - Highlight Arabic-origin loanwords if you choose to enable that layer. - Request an English translation without hiding the original Persian. - Use Quick AI Help to ask why a word is pronounced that way, why a mark appears, or what grammar is operating. ASK VOWELMARKS AI ABOUT THE PERSIAN IN FRONT OF YOU VowelMarks AI is a personal, passage-grounded Persian tutor built into the extension. Ask natural questions such as: "What clue in this sentence tells me how to read this word?" "Why is there an Ezafe here?" "Help me read this naturally." "What does this phrase mean in context?" "Can you explain the grammar without translating everything?" Unlike a generic chatbot disconnected from what you are reading, VowelMarks AI begins with the exact passage you selected, its marked reading, and the available pronunciation and language evidence. You can continue the conversation in the side panel without leaving the page. TURN REAL PERSIAN INTO PERSONAL PRACTICE - Practice this text turns the pronunciation, hidden vowels, Ezafe, ambiguous words, word boundaries, and passage meaning in your text into active reading exercises. - Receive immediate feedback grounded in the exact reading evidence from that passage. - Choose a reading-and-pronunciation or meaning-and-language focus for vocabulary, meaning, paraphrase, textual evidence, tone, and passage discussion. - Save a difficult word or phrase from real reading so it can return in later review. - Review your reading progress and the patterns that continue to slow you down. - With learning history enabled, Active Reading can gradually reduce help after verified answers while keeping full support available when you need it. WHO VOWELMARKS IS FOR - Heritage speakers who already understand spoken Persian and want to connect that knowledge to the written script. - Persian learners ready to move beyond textbook examples and read real messages, articles, stories, coursework, and webpages. - Students, educators, and researchers working directly with Persian passages. - Readers who want pronunciation, context, and practice without turning every Persian sentence into an English translation exercise. FREE AND PRO VowelMarks is free to install. Free includes meaningful monthly access to the core reading tools, VowelMarks AI, Quick AI Help, Persian speech, and guided practice. VowelMarks Pro includes unlimited ordinary personal use of Marked Persian, Pinglish, Word Origins, VowelMarks AI, Quick AI Help, and Basic Voice, plus 200 guided AI practice sessions each month and higher supporting allowances. YOUR TEXT AND YOUR CONTROL VowelMarks needs webpage access so it can find and temporarily annotate the Persian text you ask it to process. In the launch extension, selected and visible Persian is sent to VowelMarks' managed processing service. Normal reading-engine text is processed in memory and is not written to application logs or database tables. Optional translation, AI, speech, and correction features use only the bounded text and evidence needed for the action you request. Learning history is enabled by default. You can turn it off, pause it, exclude individual sites, export it, or delete it. Recognized financial pages and pages showing payment, password, one-time-code, or transaction fields automatically disable cloud and page-wide tools. High-confidence sensitive identifiers are redacted before optional cloud requests. VowelMarks works on supported webpages in desktop Chrome. Persian can sometimes have more than one valid reading, and generated results may not always be correct. VowelMarks gives you alternate-reading, explanation, and correction controls so you remain in charge of the text. Install VowelMarks and make the next Persian page easier to read, understand, and learn from.