Substack Read Aloud - Translate

Read Substack articles aloud in any language. Translate and listen with natural voices — free, no API key needed.

🎧 Substack Read Aloud — Listen to Any Article, in Any Language Turn any Substack article into a listening experience. Translate the content into your preferred language and hear it read aloud with crystal-clear natural voices — all for free, right inside your browser. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES 🔊 Read Aloud — One Click Open any Substack article, click "Read Aloud," and the extension instantly reads the entire article paragraph by paragraph using Chrome's built-in text-to-speech engine. 🌍 Translate & Read — 40+ Languages Break the language barrier. Translate any Substack article into 40+ languages and hear it read aloud in the translated language. Supported languages include English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Thai, Indonesian, and many more. 🗣️ Crystal-Clear Natural Voices Supports Chrome's high-quality Natural voices for a human-like listening experience. The extension automatically selects the best available voice for your chosen language — Natural voices first, then Google voices as fallback. 🎛️ Full Playback Controls • Play / Pause / Stop • Skip to next or previous paragraph • Adjustable speed from 0.5× to 2.0× • Real-time progress tracking (paragraph counter + progress bar) 🔗 Paste Any Substack URL Not currently on the article page? Simply paste any Substack article URL into the extension and it will fetch the content and read it aloud — no need to navigate there first. 🖱️ Right-Click to Read Select any text on a Substack page, right-click, and choose "Read Selected Text" to instantly hear just that portion read aloud. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY & TRUST • No API key required — everything runs through Chrome's built-in engines • No account or sign-up needed — install and start listening • No personal data collected — your reading habits stay private • No external servers — TTS is processed locally by Chrome • Translation powered by Google Translate — fast, reliable, and free • 100% free — no premium tier, no hidden costs, no ads ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 PERFECT FOR • Multitaskers who want to listen while doing other things • Language learners exploring content in foreign languages • Readers with visual fatigue or accessibility needs • Substack fans who prefer audio over reading • Non-English speakers who want to enjoy English newsletters in their own language ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ HOW IT WORKS 1. Navigate to any Substack article 2. Click the extension icon in your toolbar 3. Choose "Read Aloud" (original language) or "Translate & Read" (any language) 4. Sit back and listen — use playback controls to navigate ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 PRO TIP Enable Chrome's Natural voices for the best experience: 1. Select text on any webpage → Right-click → "Open in Reading Mode" 2. In Reading Mode, click Settings → Voice Selection → Languages 3. Toggle ON your preferred languages — Chrome will download high-quality Natural voices 4. Return to Substack Read Aloud and enjoy premium voice quality! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📬 FEEDBACK Love the extension? Please leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating! Found a bug or have a suggestion? We'd love to hear from you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Substack Read Aloud is not affiliated with Substack Inc.