Work · Chrome extension
FastRead
Reads web pages aloud in Chrome's side panel, past the 2x speed limit of Reading mode.
- Year
- 2026
- Built with
- JavaScript, Chrome Extensions API
- Link
- Source on GitHub
Chrome’s Reading mode stops at 2x speed. The speech API available to extensions has no such limit, so FastRead uses it in its own side panel, with article extraction, sentence and word highlighting, and click-to-start. It works with the voices already on your computer and can use Azure neural voices as well.