Press one button and the article reads itself to you — in a voice chosen to suit what it is. A news story gets a news anchor. A tutorial gets a patient teacher.
Free to start — no card needed.
Eleven readers
Let the extension pick whoever suits the page, or choose a favourite and have them read everything.
How it works
The navigation, the adverts and the comment section are left out before a word is spoken.
The sentence being spoken is highlighted as you listen, and the page scrolls to keep up. Terms the article keeps returning to are picked out as they are read.
Nothing on the page is modified — the highlight is painted over it and leaves when you do.
Tables, code listings and pasted data make no sense aloud, so they are left out. And you are told, so you know they were there:
"I'll skip a table here, three columns and four rows."
Right-click any paragraph and choose Read from here. Playback begins at that exact sentence, not at the top of the page. Select text first and it reads just that.
Alt+R starts and pauses. A player bar sits at the bottom of the page with skip, speed, and whoever is currently talking.
Pricing
Sign in with Google. Payment is handled by Stripe — your card details never touch the extension.
Privacy
The extension has no access to a page until you press the button, use the right-click menu, or press Alt+R on that page.
The addresses and titles of pages you read are never sent anywhere, and never stored.
Synthesised audio is kept up to 90 days so the same paragraph is never paid for twice, then removed automatically.
Payment happens on Stripe's own pages. Card details never reach this extension or its service.
Questions
Text2Voice is a Chrome extension that reads web pages aloud. It finds the article on the page, leaves out the navigation, adverts and comments, and reads what remains in a natural voice chosen to suit the kind of page it is.
It is free for 500 words a day, plus a one-time welcome allowance of 3,000 words. A paid plan raises that to 20,000 words a day — around two hours of listening — and costs $3.99 a week, $12.99 a month, or $129.99 a year.
Eleven readers. Susan is a teacher, Marcus a news anchor, Fiona a storyteller, Dev an engineer, Elena a researcher, Nora a guide, June a librarian, Cory a friend, and Alex a plain narrator. Walter and Jessica also comment on what they are reading. You can pick one, or let the extension choose whoever suits the page.
It works on ordinary web pages — articles, blog posts, documentation, research papers. It cannot run on Chrome's own internal pages, such as the settings or new-tab page, because no extension is permitted to.
Yes. Right-click any paragraph and choose "Read from here", and playback begins at that exact sentence rather than at the top of the page. Selecting text first reads just the selection.
Yes. The sentence being spoken is highlighted and the page scrolls to keep up, and terms the article keeps returning to are picked out as they are read. The page itself is not modified — the highlight is painted over it and disappears when you leave.
No. It has no access to a page until you invoke it there, and the addresses and titles of the pages you read are never sent anywhere or stored. The text of an article you ask to have read is sent to the extension's own service to be turned into speech, and the resulting audio is cached for up to 90 days before being deleted automatically.
No. Speech is synthesised by a server, so an internet connection is required. Audio you have already heard is briefly cached in the browser, but a new page cannot be read without a connection.
Google Chrome, version 116 or newer. There is no Firefox or Safari version.
Alt+R starts reading and pauses it again. The player bar at the bottom of the page also has skip, speed, and the reader currently talking.
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