· A chrome extension for readers ·

Read and Listen.

A calm, literary text-to-speech reader for the web. Press play, and follow along as it reads text with the cadence they deserve.

Essay · The Margins

The Quiet Return of Listening

TM
6 min read · Mar 14, 2026
There is a particular pleasure in hearing a page come alive. For centuries, reading aloud was the default, and silent reading the oddity. Then we flipped it, made reading a private act, and slowly forgot what it felt like to be read to. A good voice, unhurried, turns a dense paragraph into a kind of small companionship. The sentences slow down. You notice the commas. You catch the joke. It is, in a small way, how we used to live with language.
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◐ Features

A reader that follows your eye, or leads it.

Sentence highlighting

A soft peach wash moves with the voice, line by line — your eye never loses the place.

Reading aloud was once the default. A good voice, unhurried, turns a paragraph into companionship. The sentences slow down.

Word highlighting

Precise word-level sync — useful for language learners, readers with dyslexia, or just the curious.

A good voice, unhurried, turns a dense paragraph into a kind of small companionship.

Listen from here

Click any sentence. The extension picks up there — no scrubbing, no timeline hunting.

It is a stack. Each layer has its own history.

Variable speed

From a leisurely 0.5× to a breathless 2×. Pitch stays natural at every pace.

0.5×
0.75×
1×
1.25×
1.5×
2×

A library of voices

Six distinct voices, from a warm narrator to a crisp newsroom read. Switch any time.

June
warm · unhurried
Arlo
bright · clipped
Sena
literary · rounded

The floating player

A small, calm control. Pause, switch speed, or close it — it never covers what you're reading.

Pricing

Two plans. No footnotes.

Free
A taste of easy listening.
free
$0/ forever
Start Listening for Free
60 minutes of listening per month (based on 1× speed)
Variable playback speed (0.5×–2×)
Sentence & word highlighting
Click to listen from any sentence
Pro
The whole library, always open.
unlimited
$7/ month
Billed $84 annually (save 30%)
Start Listening Without Limits
Everything in Free
Unlimited listening (fair-use rate limits)
Priority voice generation
Multiple voices to choose from

Have your reading list,
read to you.

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