Read It To Me Read any page aloud, in your own language
Read It To Me reads articles, PDFs, docs and email aloud — in 50+ languages, with a voice you pick. Take in what you read without the struggle, rest your eyes, and move on. Free, no sign-up.
Add to Chrome — it's free
This is what it looks like
No mock-ups. This is the actual panel, reading actual pages.
It reads in a side panel, not over your page
The page stays where it is. You keep scrolling, typing and working in the same tab while it reads — the current paragraph highlighted so your eyes can follow, or wander off entirely.
- Web pages, PDFs, Google Docs, Word, Kindle, EPUB and email
- Text or Original view — clean reading, or the page as published
- Light and dark, your font size, your line spacing
Stop mid-sentence. Come back a week later.
Hit one button and the spot is saved, with the sentence you were on and how far in you were. Bookmarks and quotes sync to your account, so the book you started on the laptop carries on where you left it.
- Bookmark any spot while it plays — no menus
- Quotes you keep, with the passage attached
- Contents, shelf and progress for long books
The line that made you stop, kept
Save a passage while it plays and it lands in Quotes with the words intact — not a page number, the sentence itself. “Go to text” drops you back exactly where it came from, months later.
- The full passage, not a location
- One tap back to where it lives in the book
- Synced across your machines
Studio voices at cost. We take nothing.
Paste an API key from OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Cartesia, MiniMax or Google Cloud and their voices appear in the picker. They bill you directly, at their prices. We never see the key or the traffic — and we add no markup, because the money never touches us.
- Five providers, your choice, your account
- No middleman margin on top
- Optional — the free voices work out of the box
Set it once and stop thinking about it
Light, dark, or follow the system. Serif or sans. Line spacing from compact to relaxed. Reading settings you set for your eyes, not for a screenshot — then the panel gets out of the way and stays there.
- Theme: Light · Dark · System
- Font: System · Serif · Sans
- Line spacing: Compact · Cozy · Relaxed
Fits the moments you already have
No new habit to build — press play and keep going.
At work
Reports and mail read aloud while your hands do the rest.
While you study
A long text goes in twice — read it and hear it.
Around the house
Hands busy. The chapter keeps going.
A reader that keeps up with you
Everything you need to listen instead of read, wherever the text lives.
Natural and AI voices
Clear built-in text-to-speech, premium AI voices, or bring your own voice API key — ElevenLabs and others.
Read PDFs, EPUB and more
Listen to PDF, EPUB, Word (DOCX), MOBI and Kindle books read aloud, page by page and kept in sync.
Dozens of languages
Reads content in many languages, with the interface available in 50+ of them.
Adjustable speed
Slow it down to study or speed it up to skim — set the pace that fits you.
Read the selection
Highlight any text, right-click, and listen — right from the page you're on.
Side-panel player
Keep controls in Chrome's side panel while the reader works in the background.
What is Read It To Me?
of people report digital eye strain from screens — listening rests the eyes.
of audio listeners name multitasking as a top benefit.
languages the interface is translated into.
Questions people ask
Is Read It To Me free?
Yes. Reading web pages, PDFs, documents and email aloud is free, with no account and no word limit on the built-in voices. Premium AI voices are optional and can use your own voice-API key.
What can it read aloud?
Articles and any web page, PDFs, Google Docs, Word files, Kindle books, EPUB and email. Select text or open a page and press play.
How is it different from Speechify and NaturalReader?
The built-in voices are free with no word cap, you can pick one that runs on your device, there is no sign-up, and it can translate a page and read it aloud in your language. Speechify and NaturalReader gate most voices and features behind a paid plan.
Is it private?
You can pick a voice that runs on your device — those are marked in the voice list, and then the text never leaves your computer. The Google voices are spoken on Google's servers, the way browser speech normally works.
Sources: digital eye-strain meta-analysis (PMC/NIH); audio-listening benefits (Audio Publishers Association).
Give your eyes a break
Install Read It To Me and start listening to the web in under a minute.
Add to Chrome — it's free