Read Aloud

Read pages and selected text aloud on your device.

Give your eyes a break and keep your place. Read Aloud turns articles, selected text and PDFs into speech on your own computer. Select a passage and choose Read selection from the right-click menu, or start an article from the extension button. Your reading text and synthesized audio stay on your device. Keep listening in one compact playback bar: play/pause, previous or next sentence, speed, volume and voice choice. Word highlighting and automatic scrolling help you follow along. PDFs open in a separate reader tab, preserving the original document. Choose your voice before you download it. English and Czech are available alongside additional languages in the voice catalog. Listen requests a prerecorded online sample; Download explicitly installs the selected model. Quality and performance vary by model and device. Downloaded models can be removed from voice management. There is no account, subscription, advertising or telemetry. Speech runs inside the extension without a separately installed helper application. Once provisioned, the speech engine runs locally; opening online documents and streaming previews still requires the network. Browser restrictions and optional site/file permissions can affect PDF access. Original application source is open source under MIT; the combined application includes GPL-covered runtime code, and voices/previews have separate terms. Source code, license notices and support: https://github.com/Fidasek009/read-aloud Corresponding-source download/build directions for the release, including third-party source: https://github.com/Fidasek009/read-aloud/blob/main/vendor/source/SOURCE-ACCESS.md. Select the tag matching your installed version for the exact source snapshot. Source access is public and free; a store reviewer account is not required.