Multitask while you “read”
Do the dishes, sketch, walk the dog. Long reads turn into something you can do with your hands free and your eyes elsewhere.
Highlight. Press a key. Listen.
Your screen,
Your screen,
now playing.
Highlight any text - a browser, a PDF, an email, even your code - press one hotkey, and ClintReads reads it aloud in a genuinely natural voice.
Now playing
Kokoro · Aria (Neural)
The best way to get through a long article isn't always to stare at it - sometimes it's to listen while your eyes follow along.
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Reads from anywhere:
Chrome & Edge
PDFs
Word & Docs
Email
Code editors
Anything you can highlight
Built for people who prefer to listen
Listening isn't a fallback.
Listening isn't a fallback.
For a lot of us, it's the better way in.
Most screen readers are built for blindness and take over your whole machine. ClintReads just reads what you highlight - and gets out of the way.
Stay focused with ADHD
A steady voice plus a moving highlight gives a restless brain a track to lock onto - fewer re-reads, less drifting off the page.
Follow along, retain more
Word-by-word highlighting pairs what you hear with what you see - two channels at once, which many people find sticks better.
Rest your eyes
Screen-fatigued? Give your eyes a break and keep going. Push through docs, articles and PDFs without the strain.
Focused by design
Small, fast, and out of your way.
No setup wizard, no bloat, no account. Install it, learn one hotkey, and it's part of how you work.
Read anything with one hotkey
Highlight text in any app, press Ctrl+Shift+Space, and it reads. Dedicated Read, Stop and Pause hotkeys mean you never reach for the mouse.
A real mini player
A floating, draggable player: play/pause, previous/next sentence, speed from 0.5× to 3×, volume, a live progress bar and the current voice - always within reach.
Live word highlighting
Open the reader panel and watch each word light up as it's spoken, so your eyes and ears travel together.
Light, dark & system themes
Match your desktop automatically or pick a mood. The player and reader panel look right against any background.
Export to WAV
Save any passage as a clean WAV file - turn an article into something you can play on a run, in the car, or anywhere offline.
Tray-resident, no clutter
Lives quietly in your system tray. No taskbar button, not in Alt-Tab - there when you need it, invisible when you don't.
Clipboard-safe
It backs up your clipboard before reading and restores it after. Your copied text stays exactly where you left it.
Start with Windows
Flip one toggle and it's ready the moment you sign in. Tiny footprint, instant launch, no waiting around.
Voices that don't sound like 2009
A neural voice built in - and a library to explore.
Speak through any Windows voice you already have, or switch on a built-in neural engine that genuinely sounds human.
Kokoro neural engine, built in
A natural-sounding neural voice that runs fully offline - no cloud, no account, nothing leaves your machine. Apache-2.0 licensed and free. Got an NVIDIA card? Optional CUDA acceleration runs it at roughly 8× real-time, so even long documents start instantly. Prefer the classics? It still speaks through any installed Windows SAPI5 voice.
Kokoro neural
SAPI5 compatible
100% offline
NVIDIA CUDA ~8× RT
Apache-2.0
The Voice Library
Discover, sample and one-click install the best free natural voices - across many languages.
Free
Free
Free
System
Free
Why it goes deeper
Two channels in, less falling out.
When you hear a sentence and watch the words at the same time, you're using two pathways at once. Many people find that following along - rather than just listening or just reading - helps them focus, understand, and remember more, especially through long or dense material. The easiest way to know is to try it: highlight this paragraph, press the hotkey, and follow along.
See the words
Hear them spoken
Keep more of it
Honest note: this isn't a clinical claim, and ClintReads isn't a medical or therapeutic tool. Research suggests dual-channel input helps many readers - and it's especially handy for ADHD and for getting through long material. Listening here is a preference, not a disability aid.
Need a full accessibility screen reader?
ClintReads is a complement, not a replacement. If you rely on a screen reader to navigate your whole computer - every button, menu and dialog - these are the leading tools, and they're excellent. Use them, and keep ClintReads alongside for the moments you just want to listen.
Free to use
Yours to keep. Coffee optional.
No account, no trial, no sign-up. Install it and use it as much as you like - if it earns a place in your day, a one-time coffee says thanks.
Free · to use, no account
- Read anything you highlight, with one hotkey
- Mini player, live highlighting & WAV export
- Neural Kokoro engine + the full Voice Library
- Runs offline · clipboard-safe · tray-resident
Download for Windows
Windows 10 & 11 · ~ a few MB
Buy me a coffee
Built by one person who's leaned on screen readers for 10+ years. A one-time coffee (from $2) says thanks - and switches off the occasional in-app reminder.
Support developmentOptional. No spam - just the occasional note when something good ships.