I built VibeReader so listening wouldn’t make you lose your place.
A read aloud Chrome extension for supported PDFs, Google Docs, and web pages—built around one simple idea: your place should stay visible while you listen.
the ideas that matter.
A good idea can arrive while you're doing something else. Keep your place. Pick up the thread whenever you're ready.
It started with a long answer and a short walk.
A few months ago, I was reading a dense response in ChatGPT. I pressed the audio button and let it read while I walked around the room.
Then I heard something worth going back to. I returned to my laptop and tried to find that exact line. There was no active word on screen, no quick way to jump back in. Just a long paragraph and a lot of scanning.
“I could listen to the whole thing. I just couldn’t find my way back to the part that mattered.”
That tiny frustration stayed with me. The missing piece wasn’t speech. It was keeping your place while the speech moved forward.
Audio should leave a trail.
Listening works best when your eyes can follow along—and when you can return to a thought without hunting through a wall of text.
The best ideas don’t ask you to stop what you’re doing. They meet you where you are, and let you find your place when you come back.
A read aloud Chrome extension for PDFs, Docs, and the web.
VibeReader is a text to speech Chrome extension that lets you read supported PDFs aloud, listen to Google Docs, or hear a web page while synchronized highlighting follows the narration. Choose a voice, adjust playback, and jump into the text at the point you want.
There are free voices to get started and premium AI voices for people who want more natural options. The goal is not to turn every page into a podcast. It’s to make it easier to keep going through the reading already in your life.
This is a beginning, not a victory lap.
I built VibeReader independently, starting with a problem I had felt myself. Researching text-to-speech tools and the phrases people use to find them helped me see that the need might reach beyond my own desk. It doesn’t prove product-market fit; people’s real use will.
So I’m sharing the work while I learn: which reading moments matter, what feels effortless, and where the experience still gets in the way. If you use it, your honest feedback is part of how this gets better.
Reading, without being tied to the screen.
What is a text to speech Chrome extension?+
It’s a Chrome add-on that turns on-screen text into spoken audio. VibeReader reads supported PDFs, Google Docs, and web pages aloud, with synchronized highlighting to help you follow along.
What does a read aloud Chrome extension do?+
A read aloud Chrome extension speaks text from supported pages and documents. VibeReader also lets you follow the narration in the text, choose a voice, adjust playback, and jump to a passage.
Can I read a PDF aloud in Chrome?+
VibeReader can read supported PDF documents aloud in Chrome and keep the spoken words in sync with the text, so it’s easier to follow along.
Can I listen to Google Docs?+
Yes. VibeReader supports Google Docs, with voice and playback controls alongside synchronized text highlighting.
Find your place in what you hear.
Try VibeReader on your next article, PDF, or document.