AI Voice Reader — Text to Speech

About

Listen to any web page, article, PDF, or selected text aloud with high-quality neural AI voices. Runs on your own computer for the free tier, with no subscription and no usage cap.

What it reads:
- Articles, blog posts, documentation, and emails
- PDFs opened in the browser
- Any text you highlight on a page (right-click and choose "Read aloud")
- The full page when you click the toolbar icon

How it works:
- Click the toolbar icon to read the current page
- Or right-click selected text and choose "Read aloud" to read just the selection
- Adjust speed, pitch, and voice in Settings

Key features:
- Neural AI voice that runs entirely on your own computer (free tier)
- Unlimited reading, no daily cap, no account required
- Works offline once the voice model is downloaded
- Adjustable speed and pitch
- Per-domain settings (your preferences are remembered per site)
- Sentence-precise resume across page reloads
- Skips code blocks and tables with an audible cue
- MediaSession integration: control playback from your OS media keys

Privacy first:
- On the free tier, page text never leaves your computer. Voice synthesis runs locally in the browser
- No analytics, no telemetry, no fingerprinting
- No account required, no signup, no email collection
- No subscription, no recurring billing

Optional Pro upgrade ($29.99 one-time, lifetime, not a subscription):
- Bring your own API key for a premium cloud voice provider of your choice
- You pay the provider directly for what you use. We never charge per word
- Any custom or cloned voices on your provider account show up automatically in the voice picker
- Cross-device sync of reading position
- Instant activation via license key
- Yours forever. No renewal, no expiry

Common use cases:
- Listen to a long article while you do something else
- Read long PDFs aloud without your eyes
- Have your inbox read to you while you cook or commute
- Convert reading fatigue into listening time
- Make web reading accessible when your eyes are tired

Works on most reading-focused web pages, plus PDFs opened in the browser.

More Simple Capture tools:
AI Voice Reader is the first AI-powered branch of the Simple Capture tools. The other extensions capture different content types:
- Simple Audio Capture (simple-audio-capture.com). Tab audio to MP3
- Simple Video Capture (simple-video-capture.com). Tab video to WebM or MP4
- Simple Transcript Capture (simple-transcript-capture.com). YouTube and webpage transcripts
- Simple Screenshot Capture (simple-screenshot-capture.com). Full-page screenshots
- Simple Capture (simple-capture.com). All four capture modes in one extension