Flexible reading
Read selected text, the current paragraph, text from the cursor, or the entire document.
Google Docs reading support
Student Reader for Google Docs
Read Google Docs aloud with local browser voices.
Student Reader for Google Docs is a classroom-friendly reading support add-on designed for students, teachers, accessibility, and literacy support.
Features
Reading tools for classroom Google Docs.
Student Reader helps students listen to text directly inside Google Docs. Speech is produced with the browser's built-in speech synthesis voices on the student's device.
Voice controls
Choose available voices, test the selected voice, and adjust reading speed.
Multilingual voices
Supports English, Spanish, Italian, French, and Chinese voices when installed on the device.
Privacy-first MVP
Document text is not sent to DonatiTech servers or external text-to-speech services.
Privacy
Local speech, no external text processing.
Student Reader accesses text through Google Apps Script DocumentApp APIs only when a user chooses a reading action. Text-to-speech runs locally in the Google Docs sidebar using browser speechSynthesis.
Student Reader does not translate text yet. It reads the existing document text with the selected voice.