Reedr — Text-to-speech

Name: Reedr — Text-to-speech
Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Author: John Brown

The simplest text-to-speech extension.

As of May 2026, Reedr — Text-to-speech has 302 users and a 3.33/5 rating from 3 reviews in the Accessibility category.

John Brown Accessibility

Chrome Web Store ↗.crx

Users+8.2%

302

Rating0%

3.33

3 reviews

Reviews0%

Version

2.0.0

Manifest V3

History

2 snapshots

Tracking since Apr 24, 2026.

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Date	Users	Rating	Reviews	Version
Apr 24, 2026	279	3.33	3	2.0.0
May 19, 2026	304	3.33	3	2.0.0
Now	302	3.33	3	2.0.0

Permissions & access

Permissions: activeTabscripting
Host access: None declared

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About

A text-to-speech extension featuring incredible features such as sentence skipping, volume controls, speed controls, and more to come! Multi-task with ease. Too busy to read long-winded articles? Let Reedr read articles, messages, and more while you browse other tabs! 

How to use:
- Go to a web page with selectable text
- Open the extension to display the toolbar (located at the bottom right of the screen)
- Drag and select (highlight) the text that you'd like to listen to
- Press play!

Version 2.0.0: (1/22/25)
* Upgrades to Manifest 3!
* Adds a progress bar to see selection progress!
* Bug fixes, UI fixes, and general improvements!

Version 1.1.1: (12/7/19)
* Adds tooltips when hovering over a button
* Adds a dedicated stop button
* Updates functionality of play / pause button. Pause will no longer reset speech synthesis. Now, it will pause speech synthesis. Clicking play will then resume playback.
* Updates app name
* Fixes some styling issues
* Miscellaneous improvements

Version 1.0.0: (11/26/19)
* Select a range of text to play
* Skip to the next sentence
* Go back to the previous sentence
* Set the volume for speech
* Set the speed for speech (0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0)
* Speech synthesis for English text
* Stop speech synthesis