MES Read Aloud

A setup is a voice, a speed and a highlight style. Make one for each purpose (studying, quick listening, a person who likes it slow) and switch in the player or the toolbar popup. Changes save automatically.

Voice and speed

VoiceAutomatic picks the best installed voice for the language of the text. Natural, neural and online voices sound best.
Speed
Pitch
Volume

Highlighting

Highlight the word being read
Highlight the sentence being read
Scroll to follow the readingPauses for a few seconds after you scroll yourself.
Double-click a word to start reading from it

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

What gets read

Page content"Article" reads the main content and skips menus, sidebars and footers. "Everything" reads all visible text.
Skip code blocks
Skip tables
Read the page title first

Player

Position
Close the player when the reading ends

While the player is open: Space pause / resume, ← → previous / next sentence, ↑ ↓ speed, H highlighting on / off, M minimise, Esc close. Drag the player by its grip or any empty part to move it (double-click the grip to put it back). The start shortcut (Alt+Shift+R by default) can be changed at chrome://extensions/shortcuts (brave://extensions/shortcuts, edge://extensions/shortcuts).

Sites that always use a setup