✅ Read Aloud – Text-to-Speech & Word Highlighting

What it can reach

No site access is declared in the manifest, so it cannot read the pages you open on its own.

• See the address and title of every tab you have open tabs
• Act on the current tab, but only after you click it activeTab
• Add items to the right-click menu contextMenus

The full permission history for this extension →

The publisher

danfleser.dev publishes 2 listings we track, 483 users between them.

1. VoiceMagic: Transform Text into Spoken Words danfleser.dev · Productivity · Workflow · published 2023-08-28 113 users ★ 3.0

Like this one

Listings the catalog judges closest in what they say they do.

1. Speak It: Text to Speech & Read Aloud Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 1k users ★ 4.2
2. Text to Speech — Read Aloud Any Page Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 89 users ★ 3.0
3. Highlight & Read: Text to Speech Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 17 users ★ 5.0
4. Read Aloud: Text to Speech for Any Webpage Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 44 users ★ 3.0
5. Read Aloud Pro Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 2k users ★ 3.5

The top 5 only. The full comparison, with why each one is close, is on the alternatives page; ranking a whole neighbourhood by your own criteria is in the app.