Reading & study

Read Aloud

Listen to the text while you follow along. The sentence being read is highlighted so you never lose your place.

Starting Read Aloud

Each sentence is shaded as it's spoken. Tap anywhere outside the controls to hide them and just follow the highlight.

Button	What it does
🔊▶	Read this page aloud from the beginning.
⏸	Pause, keeping your place.
⏸▶	Resume after pausing.
⏹	Stop.
▶.	Carry on from the last sentence that was spoken. Appears when available.
🔖▶	Read from the sentence a bookmark or passage link opened. Appears when that sentence is on the page.
🔊 beside a sentence	Read just that sentence. If you can't see these, turn on ● 🔊 in the reader controls.

From 0.5× to 2×. 1.0× is normal pace.

Choose from the voices your device provides. English (Australia) and English (UK) voices are picked first when available.

Turn this on to keep reading into the next page automatically. Illustration pages are skipped.

Change these while Read Aloud is stopped. If you're signed in, your choices are remembered on your account.

Voices and pronunciation come from your browser and device, so they vary between computers and phones.
Names, older words, verse and stage directions may not sound the way a person would read them.
Read Aloud reads the main text, not the study notes. Open a note separately when you want it.
If you jump to another part of the text, start Read Aloud again from there.