Read Aloud

Read Aloud is a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and other Chromium-based browsers that converts webpage text to audio using text-to-speech technology. It is designed to work on a wide variety of sites, including news, blogs, online textbooks, course materials, fanfiction, and more. The extension targets users who prefer listening over reading, as well as people with dyslexia, other learning disabilities, or eye strain, and children learning to read. Read Aloud lets users choose from multiple voices: built-in browser voices, plus premium cloud voices from providers such as Google Wavenet, Amazon Polly, IBM Watson, and Microsoft. It offers simple controls through a toolbar button, right-click menu, and keyboard shortcuts for play, pause, stop, rewind, and fast forward. Users can customize voice, speed, pitch, and text highlighting behavior directly from the extension’s settings panel.