Your computer can read anything on your screen out loud.

Highlight text in any program. Press Ctrl+Alt+R. Windows reads it back in the voice already sitting on your machine. Free, open source, shipped August 1, 2026.

How it works

1. Highlight the text. A PDF, an email, an error message in a terminal, anything you can select.
2. Press Ctrl+Alt+R. The tool sits in the tray, so there is no window to open first.
3. It reads with the speech engine already inside Windows. Nothing to install past the app itself, and no voice to buy.

What's included

• System-wide hotkey: Ctrl+Alt+R from the tray, in any application.
• Clipboard queue: Ctrl+Alt+A auto-reads what you copy, in the order you copied it.
• Desktop app: sentence highlighting as it reads, and save to WAV.
• Chrome extension for reading a page without leaving the browser.
• File Explorer right-click to read a file where it sits.
• Over 100 automated tests.

Ctrl+Alt+B reads the short version

Ctrl+Alt+B reads a summary instead of the whole thing. The scoring is plain math on your machine, no cloud. It keeps the top fifth of the sentences, 3 to 12 of them, in the order they were written. Under 400 characters it skips the summary and reads the whole thing.

Why it never touches the network

No accounts, no API keys, no network calls. The speech engine ships with Windows, so there is nothing for this tool to fetch and nothing for me to log. Turn the wifi off and it still reads. I wrote it that way because a tool that reads whatever is on your screen has no business sending that anywhere, and because it is the same rule I hold my client software to: your data stays in your database, under your account, and I build the system so that I do not have to look at it.