What shall we listen to?
Read Aloud turns articles and notes into audio using your device's voices. Words are highlighted as they are spoken, and you can set the speed up to 2x, use a sleep timer, highlight and annotate passages, make quote cards, set a daily listening goal and see your listening stats. Read Aloud Pro, an optional one-time upgrade, adds PDF and EPUB books and speeds up to 4x.
Yes. Pasted text, text, Markdown and HTML files, every voice, speeds up to 2x, word highlighting, highlights, quote cards, the sleep timer and stats are free, with no ads and no account. Read Aloud Pro is an optional one-time upgrade ($3.99) that adds PDF and EPUB import and speeds above 2x.
Plain text, Markdown and HTML files, plus anything you paste or type, are free. Read Aloud Pro adds PDF and EPUB import. Smart cleanup can skip page numbers, running headers and footnote marks.
Read Aloud uses the text-to-speech voices built into your device and browser, so the choice of voices varies by phone and computer. Every voice is free. Speed goes from 0.5x to 2x, or up to 4x with Read Aloud Pro.
Yes. Documents, highlights and stats are stored only in this browser and files never leave your device. There is no account or sign-up.
Yes. Each document keeps your place, and the sleep timer fades the voice out and saves your position when it stops.
Tip: most people settle around 1.5× within a week, then creep up. Some voices cap out near 2× on certain devices.
The voice softens over the last 20 seconds, then stops and saves your place.
How many minutes would you like to listen each day? The ring fills as you go.
Everything lives in this browser: documents, highlights, stats. Voices come from your device, so they vary by phone and computer. Keyboard shortcuts