· Listen to articles out loud ·

Listen to articles instead of reading them.

TextReads reads any article or web page out loud to you in natural AI voices, highlighting each sentence as it goes. Open a page, press play, and listen while you walk, cook, or rest your eyes. It is the website that reads articles to you, with nothing to copy or paste.

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How it works

From open tab to out loud in one click.

STEP 1

Open the article

Go to any article, blog post, newsletter, or long web page you want to get through, the one you keep meaning to read.

STEP 2

Press play

TextReads finds the main text, skips the menus and ads, and starts reading it out loud to you in a natural AI voice. Switch voices or speed any time.

STEP 3

Listen and follow along

Each sentence is highlighted as it is spoken and the page scrolls to keep your place. Put it in your pocket and listen, or read along by eye and ear together.

What you can listen to

If you can read it, you can listen to it.

TextReads reads the text on the page out loud, so almost anything you would open in a browser tab becomes something you can listen to.

Articles & blog posts

The long reads and posts you save and never get back to. Listen to them on your next walk instead.

News & newsletters

Catch up on the day's stories and your inbox newsletters by ear while you make coffee.

Research & documentation

Work through dense papers, guides, and docs without staring at a screen for an hour straight.

Long emails & reports

Hear that long thread or report read out loud while you handle something else.

Why listen

Reading you can do with your eyes closed.

Reclaim your chores and downtime

Turn dead time into reading time. Listen to articles while you walk, cook, or fold laundry, the way you already listen to podcasts.

Rest your eyes

Give your eyes a break after a long day of screens. Close the laptop, keep listening, and get through the reading anyway.

Read along, by ear and eye

Sentence highlighting follows the voice, which helps focus and comprehension, especially for readers with dyslexia, ADHD, or reading fatigue.

Get through more

Speed up to listen faster, or slow down for dense material. Either way, the backlog of things you meant to read finally moves.

Learn English by ear

Non-native speakers hear how the words sound while the highlighting shows how they are written, building pronunciation and comprehension together.

Skim less, absorb more

A steady voice carries you through every sentence instead of letting you scan, skip, and forget. The dense material finally sinks in.

Two ways to listen

For your own reading, or your readers’.

Listen to the web you read

Add the free browser extension and listen to any article, anywhere you browse. This is the product available today.

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Let your visitors listen

Publishers and businesses can embed the same reading engine on their own site, so readers can listen to their articles with one click.

TextReads for business
Pricing

Two plans. No footnotes.

Free
A taste of easy listening.
free
$0/ forever
Start Listening for Free
Free offline voice: Unlimited listening
Premium voice: 60 minutes/month (based on 1× speed)
Variable playback speed (0.5×–2×)
Sentence & word highlighting
Auto-scroll that follows your reading
Click to listen from any sentence
Pro
The whole library, always open.
unlimited
$7/ month
Billed $84 annually (save 30%)
Start Listening Without Limits
Free offline voice: Unlimited listening
Premium voice: Unlimited listening (fair-use rate limits apply)
Variable playback speed (0.5×–2×)
Sentence & word highlighting
Auto-scroll that follows your reading
Click to listen from any sentence
Priority voice generation
Priority access to new voices and features
◐ Features

Everything you need to read by ear.

Sentence highlighting

A soft highlight moves with the voice, line by line. Your eye never loses its place.

Reading aloud was once the default. A good voice, unhurried, turns a paragraph into companionship. The sentences slow down.

Word highlighting

Precise word-level sync. Useful for language learners, readers with dyslexia, or the curious.

A good voice, unhurried, turns a dense paragraph into a kind of small companionship.

Listen from here

Click on any sentence. You can start anywhere. No scrubbing, no timeline hunting.

It is a stack. Each layer has its own history.

Variable speed

From a leisurely 0.5× to a breathless 2×. Pitch stays natural at every pace.

0.5×
0.75×
1×
1.25×
1.5×
2×

Natural AI voices

Multiple AI narrators, crisp readers, and everything between. Switch any time.

June
Arlo
Wisp
Lyra
Nova
Cole
Oak
Hugo
Finn
Dean

The floating player

A small minimal control. Pause, switch speed and voice, close it, or move it around the screen.

Auto-scroll

The page scrolls itself to keep the line you're hearing centered. Scroll away any time, and a tap on this button brings you back.

FAQ

Common questions.

Yes. TextReads reads any article or web page out loud to you in a natural AI voice. Open the page you want, press play, and listen while it highlights each sentence as it goes. It is a hands-free way to get through long-form reading while you do something else.

Add the free TextReads extension to your browser, open any article, and click play. There is no copy-pasting and nothing to configure: it finds the main text on the page and reads it out loud to you. You can start listening from the text-to-speech Chrome extension.

Yes. TextReads is free to start. The free plan includes unlimited listening with our offline AI voice plus a monthly allowance of premium AI voices. A Pro plan unlocks unlimited premium-voice listening, subject to a fair-use policy.

That is exactly what it is built for. Press play and listen to articles, newsletters, or blog posts hands-free on a walk, at the gym, or while you handle chores, the same way you would a podcast, except it is the writing you actually wanted to read.

Just the article. When you press play, TextReads detects the main content and reads only that part out loud. Navigation menus, ads, and sidebars stay on the page; it simply skips them so you hear the writing, not the clutter.

Yes. TextReads uses AI voices that sound natural and unhurried, a world away from the robotic read-aloud of a decade ago. You can switch voices and adjust the speed any time while you listen.

Yes. The same reading engine is available as an embeddable widget your business can add to its own site, so your readers can listen to your content with one click. Learn more on TextReads for business.

Open an article and press play.

Free to start. No card. Sixty calm minutes of premium voice waiting.

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