Readox – Read Aloud Text

Readox is a Chrome text-to-speech reader for web pages, PDFs, and selected text, with word-by-word highlighting, OCR, and premium English voices that run on your device.

FEATURES

Read web pages and PDFs aloud
Listen to articles, blogs, docs, and many PDFs directly in Chrome.

OCR for images and screenshots
Extract text from screenshots or images and read it aloud. Useful for scanned content, screenshots, and image-based documents.

Word-by-word highlighting
Follow each spoken word in the transcript so you can keep your place and stay focused.

Read only what you want
Highlight any section on a page and play just that text, or read the whole page.

Keyboard shortcuts and playback controls
Play, pause, skip, stop, and change speed without leaving the page.

Adjustable speed
Choose a listening speed from 0.75x to 2x.

Privacy-first
Speech playback and OCR run locally. Premium voices run on your device.

READOX PRO

28 premium English voices
Choose from natural-sounding American and British English voices.

Premium voices run on your device
Premium voices run on your device for private listening with no character caps. Sign in only if you want Pro.

AI summaries
Get a short summary of a page or selected text when you want the key points fast.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Open Readox in the Chrome side panel.
2. Press play to read the page, or select text to read only that section.
3. Follow the highlighted transcript.
4. Use controls or keyboard shortcuts to navigate.

Readox is built for focused reading, studying, proofreading, and accessibility. Free to start, no account required.