Turn what you want to read into something
you’ll love to listen to.
Reading rooms across the city are filling up before noon, with students, retirees and remote workers all looking for the same thing: quiet.
On a gray Tuesday morning, the line outside the library began forming before the doors opened. Within minutes, every seat at the long reading tables was taken. Librarians say the crowds have been growing for months, and nobody is entirely sure why.
Most mornings start with a list of things to read. A few of them deserve your full attention, and your ears can do the work. The rest can wait.
Select a passage and press Read selection, or start at any sentence with Read from here. Alt-click a sentence to jump straight to it.
On a gray Tuesday morning, the line outside the library began forming before the doors opened. Within minutes, every seat at the long reading tables was taken. Librarians say the crowds have been growing for months.
Reader mode clears away menus, ads and sidebars: just the article, in the size and font you like, lighting up sentence by sentence.
Keep it as a slim bar or a small card. Skip sentences, switch voices, set the volume and listen at up to 2× without the voice changing pitch.
Three original narrators, each with a character of their own: a calm documentary voice, a late-night noir and a warm British storyteller.
These are the real voices the extension reads with, not stand-ins. The demo at the top uses them too.
Three steps and a few seconds. Then you just listen.
News, essays, long reads or the tab you’ve been saving for later. If you can read it in your browser, Narractor can read it to you.
Open the Narractor card from the toolbar, choose a narrator and set the speed anywhere from 0.5× to 2×.
Press Read this page or Alt + Shift + R. It keeps reading when the card closes, lighting up each sentence as it goes.
Turn highlights and auto-scroll on or off, choose a default voice, and set your speed and volume once. Narractor remembers them on every page.
All of it is one click away, behind the gear in the Narractor card.
DocumentaryDeep · CalmNarractor is a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox, in development, that turns web content into a listening experience, with voice selection, playback controls, and a focused reading view.
There is no Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons listing yet. The current development build is v0.5.0 and runs as an unpacked extension with the Narractor voice server. A store link will be added when it is ready.
Yes. The voice library plays saved samples of Documentary, Noir, and Storyteller from Narractor itself. “Try the reading demo” uses browser speech to demonstrate the article controls; it is separate from the extension’s voice engine.
Yes. Select text and choose “Read selection” or “Read from here”. You can also use Alt + Shift + S for a selection, or Alt-click a sentence to jump there.
The current extension needs the Narractor voice server to be running. If it is unavailable, the player shows a connection message; it does not switch to a browser fallback voice.