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Chrome extension · Text to speech

The easy way to listen to the web

Select any text and Readalix reads it aloud in a natural voice. The sentence glows and every word lights up as it is spoken. Works on web pages, PDFs, Google Docs and Word Online.

Add to Chrome Try it live

Free · No account · Voices run on your device · Chrome 123+

Chrome reads aloud too

So what makes this different?

Chrome’s Read aloud

  • Opens a reading panel on top of your page
  • Reads the whole page, from the top
  • Only the voices your computer already has
  • Not on PDFs, Google Docs or Word Online

Readalix

  • Reads your page just as it is — nothing moves, nothing covers it
  • Reads what you pick: a selection, one part of the page, or from any word
  • 100+ voices — offline ones, Gemini and OpenAI, with ElevenLabs coming soon
  • Reads PDFs, Google Docs, Word Online, PowerPoint and Slides

Edge’s voices show up here in Chrome as well — no key, no download. A nice extra, for as long as Microsoft keeps sharing them.

Features

Your ears read. Your eyes follow.

Everything you need to listen to a long page, and nothing you have to set up first.

Word and sentence highlighting

The sentence glows and each word lights up with the voice, so you never lose your place. Pick your own highlight colors.

100+ natural voices

Piper and Kokoro voices in 30+ languages, plus the ones your browser already has. Gemini and OpenAI voices work too, with your own API key.

Private, and works offline

The voices are made right on your computer. Nothing you read is sent away, and once a voice is downloaded you can read with no internet.

Pause on the exact word

Pause and the highlight stops mid-sentence. Play again and it starts from that same word — never a sentence too early.

Start reading anywhere

Select some text, pick a part of the page, or right-click and choose “Read from here”. The page scrolls along with the voice.

Change it while it reads

Swap the voice or the speed while it is talking — slow it right down, or listen at up to 3×. Your settings follow you to your other computers.

See it in action

Watch it read, word by word.

The whole extension in five minutes: picking a voice, reading a web page aloud, choosing exactly what gets read, and the same thing on PDFs, Google Docs and Word Online.

The demo video — “Reads any page aloud, and highlights every word as it speaks”, above a sentence with the word “while” lit up

Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play. Watch on YouTube

Works everywhere

If you can read it, Readalix can too.

Web pages, PDFs, Google Docs, Word Online, PowerPoint and Google Slides — the same voices and the same highlighting on all of them. Every screenshot below is real.

Any web pagewords light up as it reads An article read aloud in Chrome — the sentence being read is tinted, the spoken word “slides” is highlighted, and Readalix’s floating toolbar sits above it Chrome’s PDF viewerhighlighted by the viewer itself Chrome’s built-in PDF viewer, toolbar and all, with the spoken word “whole” highlighted natively by the viewer Google Docshighlighted right on the doc The Google Docs editor with its menus and toolbar, the sentence being read tinted and the spoken word “surface” highlighted on the canvas Word Onlinereads your document Word Online with its ribbon, the sentence being read tinted and the spoken word “another” highlighted PowerPoint Onlinereads the current slide PowerPoint for the web reading a slide aloud with the word “PowerPoint” highlighted, and Readalix’s voice list open beside it Google Slidesreads the slide you are on The Google Slides editor with filmstrip and menus, the slide’s title tinted word by word and the spoken word “reads” highlighted over the deck Languages & voices30+ languages, in your order The Languages and voices settings listing English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French and more, each with its own Voices button and on/off toggle Offline Piper voicesdownload once, then no internet The English voice list on the Piper tab, where each on-device voice shows its quality and either a one-time download size or a Remove button Highlight colorspresets, or pick your own The Highlight colors settings with a live preview of the word and sentence highlight above twelve colour presets and underline or fill styles
Great for
  • dyslexia
  • focus & ADHD
  • learning a language
  • long articles and PDFs
  • tired eyes
  • proofreading your own writing
Pricing

Free every day. Unlimited if you want it.

Your browser’s own voices are free, with no limit. The premium voices come with a free amount every day — and when that runs out, reading carries on with a browser voice. It never just stops.

Free

No account, no card.

$0forever

  • Browser voices — no limit
  • Natural voices — 20,000 characters a day, about 22 minutes
  • Every feature, on every page and file

Premium

The same extension, without the daily limit.

$15one-time Pay once, it’s yours.
$5per year Cancel any time.
  • Browser voices — no limit
  • Natural voices — no limit
  • Every feature, on every page and file

Upgrade any time from Settings → Premium, on any of your computers.