What is Gmail Extension?
Mail Reader for Gmail is an innovative Gmail browser extension that uses cutting-edge text-to-speech (TTS) technology, allowing users to easily listen to and dictate emails. It offers multiple ways to interact—right-click to read, hover over icons for one-tap playback, and integrated buttons directly in the email header—and supports customizable settings such as volume adjustment and gender-specific voice options, significantly enhancing email-handling efficiency and accessibility.
Key features
Voice Reading Feature: After right-clicking on an email body, users can click “Read selected,” or simply tap the icon that appears next to each email to have the selected content read aloud by a narrator’s voice. Additionally, hovering over an email in the inbox list displays a reading icon, enabling quick playback.
Voice Input Feature: Once the voice dictation option is enabled in the pop-up window, open a new email composition window and start speaking. The extension will instantly convert your speech into written text, ideal for users who prioritize time efficiency and ease of operation.
Use cases and audience
Gmail users who value time efficiency and convenient operations—such as office workers who frequently manage emails and those who prefer voice-based interactions.
- Quickly compose new emails by dictating them aloud, boosting office productivity.
- After selecting the email body, right-click and choose “Read Selected Content” to listen to the email aloud.
- Hover your mouse over an email in the inbox list, then click the icon next to it to have that email read aloud.
Voice input (for composing emails), email body text selected with the mouse, or content triggered by clicking an icon.
Audio files of emails read aloud via speech synthesis, along with email body texts generated through speech-to-text conversion.
Frequently asked questions
Does this extension support multiple language interfaces?
Supports 8 languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Polish, Thai, Japanese, and Korean
Does the read-aloud feature require an internet connection?
The original text does not specify whether the text-to-speech feature depends on an internet connection; this information remains unknown.
How to use
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Install the Mail Reader for Gmail extension in Chrome.
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Open Gmail, click the compose button, enable the dictation option in the pop-up window, and begin speaking your message.
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Select text within the email body, right-click and choose “Read selected,” or click the read-aloud icon that appears next to the email.
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Use the pop-up menu to adjust the volume, switch between male and female voices, and customize other reading settings.
Official website & sources
Updated on 2026-10-30