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Neural Reader – Read Aloud with Word Highlighting

No user count No ratings yet Last updated 1 Nov 2026

By [redacted] Live in the Chrome Web Store hcickfmadjbcohjeolfnchmcicfibafa Search Google ↗ Last checked 4 Nov 2026, 10:40 UTC

The listing

What the Chrome Web Store shows, as of the last check

Listen to any page in lifelike Google neural voices. Word-by-word highlighting, reader view, and a free built-in voice option.Summary from the listing
Developer
[redacted]
Enhanced Safe Browsing
Not trusted. What this means →
Category
Productivity › Education
First published
28 Oct 2026
Last updated
1 Nov 2026
Version
0.9.3
Size
250 KiB
Minimum Chrome
88
Languages
5 languages

Deutsch, English, español, français, čeština

Privacy policy
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rPX4iJxXXlSlEP7X61-3wH4BZQrEMLJ3HPOCckDjy5c/edit?usp=sharing
See Chrome Web Store page ↗ View its code or download CRX ↗
Users over time As shown on the Chrome Web Store

The Chrome Web Store doesn't show a user count for this extension, as with most new extensions.

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CheckedUsersRatingRatings
2026-11-04–––
2026-11-022––
2026-10-29–––
Users, 7 days
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needs a week of history
Users, 30 days
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needs a month of history
Rank
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by users, of 292,125 extensions
In its category
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of 12,901 in Education

What changed

Every change found on a check, newest first

  1. New version 0.9.3, replacing 0.9.1.

Developer history

Moves to another publisher account and new contact emails, newest first

No move to another account and no new contact email since tracking began on 29 Oct 2026.

We know contact emails only by a keyed hash, so they're never shown. Recent account and contact changes →

What it can access

From the extension's manifest, in plain language

Every websiteIt can read and change your data on all the sites you visit.
Sites
  • https://texttospeech.googleapis.com/*texttospeech.googleapis.com
Sites where it runs scripts
  • <all_urls>Every website
Browser features
  • contextMenusAdd items to the right-click menu
  • offscreenOpen a hidden page for background work
  • storageSave settings and data in your browser
  • ttsRead text aloud

About this data

Collected from the extension's public Chrome Web Store listing. It's checked again 7 and 30 days after it was published, and again whenever a new version appears. Last checked 4 Nov 2026, 10:40 UTC; next check around 27 Nov 2026.

How we collect the data

Cite this page

Citation
Extension Tracker. “Neural Reader – Read Aloud with Word Highlighting” (hcickfmadjbcohjeolfnchmcicfibafa). Chrome Web Store data, last checked 2026-11-04. https://extensiontracker.com/extension/hcickfmadjbcohjeolfnchmcicfibafa. Accessed 2026-11-13.
BibTeX
@misc{extensiontracker_hcickfmadjbcohjeolfnchmcicfibafa,
  title   = {Neural Reader – Read Aloud with Word Highlighting (hcickfmadjbcohjeolfnchmcicfibafa)},
  author  = {{Extension Tracker}},
  year    = {2026},
  note    = {Chrome Web Store data, last checked 2026-11-04},
  url     = {https://extensiontracker.com/extension/hcickfmadjbcohjeolfnchmcicfibafa},
  urldate = {2026-11-13}
}

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