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Read to Me: listening and voices

Free voices on your computer, or AI voices with an OpenAI key.

Click 🔊 Read to Me in the reader to hear the text, with each word highlighted as it is spoken. Pause, stop, or go faster or slower with the on-screen controls.

Choosing a voice

Open Settings → Text-to-Speech.

  • Browser Voice: your computer’s own voices. Free, and works offline. On a Mac, the Premium and Enhanced voices (System Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content) sound much better; download one there and it appears in the list.
  • AI Voice (experimental): natural-sounding OpenAI voices, using your own OpenAI key. The text being read is sent to OpenAI.

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