Spotlight Reader: Text-to-Speech & Highlighting Firefox

Spotlight Reader: Text-to-Speech & Highlighting

By: lucas Add-on
Read web pages aloud with natural offline voices and live sentence-level highlighting. Free and private, no account needed: offline Supertonic TTS and Google Translate, plus optional cloud voices (Google, Amazon, Azure, OpenAI, IBM).

Features & Capabilities

Spotlight Reader reads the article on the current web page aloud and highlights each sentence as it is spoken — directly on the page, Speechify-style. Click any sentence to jump to it.

★ Reading experience

  • Sentence-level in-page highlighting with hover preview and click-to-seek.
  • Voice favorites, per-language auto-select, adjustable speed.
  • Redesigned settings with light/dark mode.

★ Many voices

  • Free online: Google Translate.
  • Offline: Supertonic and Piper.
  • Optional cloud voices with your own API key: Google WaveNet/Neural2/Chirp3-HD, Amazon Polly, Microsoft Azure, OpenAI (and OpenAI-compatible), IBM Watson.

★ Offline & private

  • Supertonic neural TTS runs fully on your device (31 languages incl. German, English, Spanish, French, Korean, Portuguese). Install once, then no internet and no account required.
  • No telemetry, no unsolicited network requests.

Spotlight Reader is an independent fork of the open-source "Read Aloud" by ken107 (MIT-licensed), focused on offline TTS and in-page highlighting for Firefox.

If you find Spotlight Reader useful, consider supporting many hours of development: https://ko-fi.com/lucaseichhorn

User Growth & Download Statistics

Contact the developer

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Developed by:
lucas
Firefox Add-ons Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/spotlight-reader/
Website:
https://github.com/luc42ei/spotlight-reader/issues

Is Spotlight Reader: Text-to-Speech & Highlighting Safe?

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Spotlight Reader: Text-to-Speech & Highlighting requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Critical Request access to the following domains: google.com
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