Listen Carefully

Listen Carefully reads any web page aloud with real-time word-by-word highlighting. Your eyes follow along as each word lights up on the page. No accounts, no data collection, no external services.

Built for anyone who hits a wall of text and feels their brain shut down.

READING MODES
- Full Page: reads the main content, skipping navigation and ads
- Selected Text: highlight a section and listen to just that
- Pick Section: click any element on the page to read it
- Read From Here: click a starting point and it reads to the end

FOCUS MODE
Dims the surrounding text so only the active sentence or line is visible. Designed for those who benefit from reduced visual noise.

KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Play, pause, stop, skip sentences, and adjust speed without touching the mouse. Right-click anywhere and select "Read from here" to start instantly.

VOICE SELECTION
Access every voice installed on your system, including Windows 11 natural voices and macOS Siri voices, grouped by language. The extension uses your OS speech engine, no cloud TTS, no latency.

CUSTOMIZABLE
Highlight colors with presets, optional neon glow effect, adjustable speed, volume, and pitch. Filter out code blocks, alt text, or links. Choose sentence splitting by punctuation.

PRIVACY
Your data is yours. We don't collect, store, or sell anything.
Everything runs locally in your browser. No API keys, no telemetry, no analytics, no network requests. Settings are stored locally on your machine. Whether speech synthesis stays offline depends on the voice selected in your operating system, not on this extension.

EARLY VERSION
This is a personal project in its early phase. If you run into a bug or have a suggestion, reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.

Open source on GitHub: https://github.com/s-kerdel/listen-carefully