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Screen Reader for Google Chrome

by Pawel Uchida-Psztyc

v0.8.0 Updated Dec 12, 2023 195KiB
CWS
10K
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★ 2.15
65 reviews
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⚠️Not updated in over 2 years ⚠️Below average rating

Description

The extensions allow you to click on a text on a web page to read it aloud using the built-in text-to-speech (TTS) service. You can configure which TTS service to use by clicking on the extension's icon and selecting your favorite voice from the configuration dialog. It is a Google Hackathon 2012 in Warsaw, Poland, Chrome extension. Each operating system has a text-to-speech service, so consider using them first. If you need a new feature or spot an issue, you can report it on my GitHub page. I will respond as soon as possible. Remember that it is a side project, and I may have other priorities. But I will try to help as much as I can.
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Reviews (32 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-03-07
Mashu Star

Does not read alt text.

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-04
Dragneel

Simply doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-29
Ava O'

Did not work for me. I looked up a tutorial and did just as it said it still did not work. It works for a classmate of mine, but perhaps he used something different or it's just my computer.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-21
Tom Meiter

Really bad, you have to paste the test you want read

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-11
Andrew Wright

It works in the worst way possible. You need to click the text to get it to talk, but only on certain boxes of text. It will highlight what can be read with an annoying white box, most of which are links, meaning if you want to it to read it your going to ride that link too. What I actually need it to read can't be read for some reason, so I copy it all and paste it in their preview. While the extension is enabled the white highlight will just not go away, even if the toggle voice is currently off. Its just bad and not useful for what I need. It is actively distracting.

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-01
Marius Gri

doest work o.O

★☆☆☆☆2024-12-22
Craig Jayson

can't even hear it, doesn't work. i tried highlighting text, clicking text, nothing. not even the settings tester worked.

★☆☆☆☆2023-11-18
Joseph Chua

Agreed, doesnt work.

★☆☆☆☆2022-08-05
Melody Sierra

I could not make it work. Ironically, I deleted it. Tried to leave a review, it wouldn't let me leave a review unless I had it installed. Ha! So I reinstalled it just so I could leave the review. It doesn't work. Maybe it used to, but it definitely doesn't now.

★☆☆☆☆2022-05-16
Cad Programmer

Does not work at all. I hope I can find a screen reader that will.

★☆☆☆☆2021-03-05
Roger Brownlie

Can't figure out how to make it work

★☆☆☆☆2020-06-22
Stefan Reich

Doesn't do anything at all for me, no idea how to get it to work. Yes I restarted Chrome.

★☆☆☆☆2020-04-08
Landis Wenger

It didn't work while I had it added to chrome, and then after I removed it, it was working and I couldn't turn it off.

★☆☆☆☆2018-10-22
Tracy Greenwood

It looks like a great extension, but how do you make it work? I installed it, went to a Google Doc, and it doesn't do anything. Deleting.

★☆☆☆☆2018-05-11
Erik D

Can't get it to work at all no matter what I try.

★☆☆☆☆2017-07-12
Justin St. Germain

doesnt work at all

★☆☆☆☆2017-01-03
Russell Bishop

Doesn't work..

★☆☆☆☆2016-09-24
Shandi Greve Penrod

It didn't really work. I couldn't figure out how to use it (and I'm usually pretty smart about these things). I navigated to three different websites, and it automatically started reading once. No luck getting it to work (automatically or manually) on the other two sites.

★☆☆☆☆2016-03-09
Laura Hess

Doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2015-03-01

It is not doing anything. :((

★☆☆☆☆2015-02-27
Greg Gay

Could not make it work

★★☆☆☆2025-12-29
Keyka Sucahyo

Testing my website for the visually impaired. This extension needs to connect to the alt descriptions for images as well. Also, when you leave a page, the audio continues, as well as when you disable the extension and exit the browser. This can be a frustrating extension for those that need this. Do better.

★★☆☆☆2019-11-29
John Lemon

So far it only works for my windows 10 hp stream ....

★★☆☆☆2017-03-26
Manie Cronje

Using Google Chrome could not get it to work ...

★★☆☆☆2017-02-04
Katie Browne

I can't get it to work. I press the button and click around the screen but nothing happens. I even tried highlighting the text and nothing happened...??

★★☆☆☆2016-04-28
Markus Krainz

Breaks some websites so that forms don't show up

★★★☆☆2024-01-28
Russ Fan

Works...sort of. Saw the ratings and wanted to see for myself. The main thing is that it works on CERTAIN pages, like Facebook, but not others, like Kindle. So my intended idea of having it read books to me won't work, at least with the Kindle Reader on Chrome for PC.

★★★☆☆2023-01-26
Jen Mooney

To all the people saying it doesn't work: You have to click the text to make it read. Not very obvious, I only found it when I went to copy and paste something after installing it. That said, it's choppy and cuts out partway through a paragraph (text I was reading had a lot of citations in it, so maybe that was the problem), and will only start back at the beginning of a paragraph. It also sounds very much like old an school text reader vs the newer technology they have in iOS accessibility features, for example. Would be great if you could select speed options. But it works.

★★★☆☆2018-04-30
José Ginés Giménez

I am using to improve my English reading web news at the same time I listen to. At the moment works fine.

★★★☆☆2017-09-07
Ronice

It does not reads pdfs, and only reads the line you click on so if you're reading you got to click on every single line which I assume would get annoying. Also it says "quotation mark" when reading a quote

★★★☆☆2017-04-09
Lorez Barber

I cant figure out how to uninstall it and it doesn't read everything.

★★★☆☆2015-08-13
Gerald Gongon

it works, but causes css display issues. Nice to use when you're too lazy to read an article yourself. :)

Permissions (2)

Permissions

storage Can store data locally in your browser tts Can use text-to-speech

Details

Version 0.8.0
Updated Dec 12, 2023
Size 195KiB
First Seen Mar 31, 2026