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Human Reader, powered by ElevenLabs

By sebselassie

Listen to any text in the web in a human voice. A simple extension powered by ElevenLabs to convert any text to speech.

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Time on the storeAbout 1 to 3 yearsA rough range, not an exact date

Store users≈6KRounded by the Chrome Web Store

Chrome Web Store rating3.5 / 558 ratings on the Chrome Web Store

Last store update22 Dec 2025Version 1.7, 10 months ago

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Reviews

K X7 months ago
What a shae. Awful unstability and awful UI/UX.
Kamil Dzieniszewski8 months ago
Edit extension to help with setting up api key.
Sanjay Janardhan11 months ago
For people having the API Key issue - you need to give access to the following when creating/editing your API Key: Endpoints: Text to Speech - Access Voices - Read Administration: User - Read From there you can either 1. paste the API Key itself or 2. In https://elevenlabs.io/app/developers/api-keys, you can click the 3 dots in the right-most column of your API Key and click 'Copy Key ID', and paste this instead. Overall these issues and lack of documentation lead me to dock the rating points, but overall it's not bad. I think there could also be other options for non-eleven labs APIs.
Jeremy Jeziorski13 months ago
Just keep getting an error - "invalid API key"
Jonathan Grose14 months ago
Couldn't get this to work at all in Brave browser. I set my API key, which it didn't accept at first until I gave it unrestricted access, then when I tried to use the play button, the options pop up. Tried different voices/models - nothing. It says to press ctrl+h to play highlighted text, but ctrl+h is the shortcut to open history. Highlighting the text & right clicking on it also does nothing. This extension is also quite misleading, it is not created by Eleven Labs, it just uses their system to read text on the screen. So I'm giving an unrestricted Eleven Labs API key with tons of credits on it to some random person? No thanks. Use ReadAloud instead.
Yonatan Resnick14 months ago
I like the idea but it has a very low token allowance - its a pay to play system.
Sandro Pacella14 months ago
Great and simple! As of August 9 2025: if you're having an invalid API key error, give your API key access to more things by going on https://elevenlabs.io/app/settings/api-keys > [click on the pencil icon next to the API key you're using] > click on everything that says "No access" and change it to "Has access" or "Read only" or "Read and write". If you prefer being careful about what you give access to, do that *and then* run the same process in reverse; start reducing access little by little; each time testing if the extension still works. At some point you'll find the minimum required access and you'll share it here in a review because you're a good person. If you're a developer, here's the codebase to this chrome extension: https://github.com/sebhs/human-reader-chrome-extension
Yan14 months ago
cannot use
Maria M14 months ago
Dosen't respond. I select models and voices but nothing change... Only default voice works no controls on the panel wors.
Nicolás Fierro14 months ago
Invalid API Key
Jason Yu14 months ago
api key doesn't work!
Ali Ward15 months ago
The app is great and probably one of the best TTS apps I've used. A few issues: 1- I had to use my own API to use it. Is there a way to generate API keys for free or paid? 2- Please create a hotkey for Windows that works as the default one is control+h which opens history on chrome and there is no way to change it. 3- Please allow a function to override websites that prevent copy text which makes it harder to initiate select to speak. 4- Please consider creating a mobile version of this awesome extension that works in a similar manner. Thanks
Curtis James15 months ago
It would be great if at some point they fixed the Invalid API key bug that seems to have no work-arounds
Jack Nasarzewski15 months ago
spotty - many times reader is not working - trouble with getting these glitches resolved
Rex Gyasi15 months ago
invalid API key???? how when its copy and paste as per your apps instruction. Also I have only enabled 'Text to Speech' as that's what I need it for the web.