Text Reader
Webpages reader
As of May 2026, Text Reader has 6,000 users and a 3.10/5 rating from 29 reviews in the Accessibility category.
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6.0K
6,000
Ratingno change0%
3.10
29 reviews
Reviewsno change0%
29
Version
1.22
Manifest V3
Permissions & access
- Permissions
- contextMenustabsactiveTabttsstoragescripting
- Host access
- None declared
Screenshots
About
'Text Reader' is a chrome extension that Reads for you, texts you select from websites you visit. It also have an editing window where you can type your own words/sentences to be read out loud or even upload a text document to the window or use your mic to type. New updates : I apologize for the inconvenience! Manifest V2 was no longer supported and we didn't update the extension to Manifest V3 and it caused problem with the extension. We now have updated the extension and removed old codes that was causing problems. Please Let us know if anything isn't working good as it should. ----------------------- previous < performance bug fixes and added : > List of voices to choose from > Word or sentence selection on windows Mode > Speech controller to speak desired sentence by using using your keyboard arrows and space Please report any issue you encounter using our report button on windows mode , here in the review section or email us . We are always working on improving the Text Reader and keeping it free as always to help you reach your goals.
Technical
- Version
- 1.22
- Manifest
- V3
- Size
- 387KiB
- Min Chrome
- 88
- Languages
- 1
- Featured
- No
Metadata
- ID
- pfnbiapkfldkholcaanjkdnfkhemdepi
- Developer ID
- u79bebb97d5528766532328e5ab5cbdff
- Developer Email
- [email protected]
- Created
- Jul 30, 2016
- Last Updated (Store)
- Aug 25, 2024
- Last Scraped
- May 22, 2026
- Website
- —
- Support URL
- —
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Data sourced from the Chrome Web Store · last verified May 22, 2026.