ReadMate: Read Aloud & Text to Speech (TTS)

ReadMate is a privacy-friendly text-to-speech (TTS) and immersive reading companion for your browser. Listen to articles with high-definition neural voices, read along with synchronized word highlighting, or eliminate online distractions with our full-screen Reader Mode. 🌟 Key Features: 1. 📖 Immersive Reader Mode Transform cluttered web pages into a clean, book-like reading layout with soothing themes (Vintage Sepia, Dark, E-Ink, etc.). Enjoy sentence-by-sentence read-along highlighting, PDF export, and one-click MP3 audiobook downloads. 2. 📚 Book Page - Read Your Own Books Import your own e-books into a dedicated reading page and read them exactly like web articles: narration, click-to-read, dictionary lookup, bilingual translation and export all work the same way. A small library keeps your books in order and remembers how far you got. 3. ☁️ Natural Voices & Neural TTS Supports crystal-clear neural speech with natural pacing and emotion. Choose between local browser voices for zero latency or cloud neural voices for supreme naturalness. 4. 🌐 Bilingual Streaming & Audio Subtitles Switch seamlessly between original audio, translated audio, or alternate bilingual playback. Live bilingual floating subtitles keep you on track without losing context. 5. ⚡ Instant Vocabulary & AI Highlights Hover or select words to view instant definitions, phonetic transcriptions, and save them to your personal notebook. Trigger AI summaries to distill thousands of words into bilingual bullet points in seconds. 🔒 Privacy First: - Zero Data Collection: Your reading preferences and vocabulary stay strictly in your local browser storage. - Offline Parsing: Files you open are processed entirely inside your browser - nothing is ever uploaded to any server. - Ad-Free & Distraction-Free: Clean and lightweight experience with no promotional clutter. what's new in 1.0.10 Fixed the issue with the floating button. ReadMate v1.0.11 1. Brand New "Translation Board": A dedicated distraction-free workspace to paste and translate any text, supporting Microsoft Edge, Google Translate, and custom AI LLMs (DeepSeek/OpenAI) with tone customization. 2. Listen & Copy: Added one-click natural TTS speech playback for both original and translated text, plus one-click copy. 3. Enhanced Stability & Clean Logs: Fixed duplicate context menu warnings and redundant content script injection checks during extension updates. ReadMate v1.0.12 The previously flagged file vendor/pdfjs/pdf.min.js was the official minified build of Mozilla's PDF.js library (pdfjs-dist v3.32.2), which is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. It was not obfuscated — the single-letter variable names are the result of standard minification by Mozilla's official build toolchain. In v1.0.12, we have replaced it with the unminified, fully readable source build (pdf.js from pdfjs-dist 3.11.174). All variable names are now human-readable and the code logic is fully transparent.