URL to Speech lets you paste any webpage address and listen to the article content read aloud. Instead of reading a long news article, blog post, or online document, simply paste the URL and press play. The tool automatically extracts the main article text, stripping away website navigation, advertisements, sidebars, and other clutter.
The internet is full of long-form content that takes significant time to read. News articles from major outlets can be thousands of words long. Blog posts and opinion pieces often require sustained attention. Research summaries and educational content demand focused reading. Technical documentation and how-to guides contain dense information. Instead of sitting at a screen reading all of this, you can paste URLs into Text to Speech Speaker and listen while commuting, exercising, cooking, cleaning, or doing any other activity. This effectively turns written web content into on-demand podcasts. You can also stack multiple articles in your listening queue and play them continuously, creating a personalized news or reading playlist.
Open Text to Speech Speaker and tap the "URL" tab. Paste the full webpage address including https:// into the input field. Tap "Extract Text". The tool fetches the webpage and uses intelligent content extraction to identify and isolate the main article text. Menus, navigation bars, advertisements, headers, footers, sidebars, comment sections, and related article links are all stripped away. What remains is the clean article text, which appears in an editable text box along with the article title. You can review and edit the text, removing any remaining unwanted elements, and then tap "Add to Queue" or "Play Now" to listen. Tap "New URL" to process a different article.
The URL feature works best with standard article and blog post formats. News articles from major outlets generally extract very well because they follow consistent article markup patterns. Blog posts and opinion pieces on most platforms work well. Wikipedia articles and educational content extract cleanly. Medium posts and similar publishing platforms produce good results. Static documentation pages typically work well. Pages that may not extract properly include heavily JavaScript-rendered single-page applications, paywalled content behind login screens, pages that require scrolling to load content dynamically, social media feeds with multiple posts, and pages that are primarily images or video with minimal text.
If the extracted text contains unwanted elements or is missing content, you have several options. The extracted text is fully editable, so you can manually delete any unwanted sections before playing. If the extraction failed entirely, the tool falls back to extracting all paragraph text from the page, which may include some non-article content but ensures something is captured. If a particular website consistently does not extract well, consider using the screenshot or text copy approach instead - take a screenshot of the content or copy the text directly from the page and paste it into the Text tab.
One of the most powerful ways to use URL to Speech is building a listening playlist of articles. Throughout your day, when you come across articles you want to read but do not have time for, paste each URL into the tool and tap "Add to Queue". By the end of the day, you might have five, ten, or more articles stacked up. When you are ready to listen - during your commute, workout, or evening routine - tap play and the queue plays through all of them continuously. Each article finishes and the next begins automatically. This effectively creates a personalized news podcast on demand, with exactly the articles you chose. Combined with the listening queue features like reordering and history, this becomes a powerful content consumption tool.
When you use the URL feature, the webpage is fetched through a third-party proxy service to enable cross-origin access. This is a technical requirement because web browsers prevent direct access to other websites for security. The proxy receives the URL you requested and returns the page content. No personal data is sent to the proxy beyond the requested URL. The article text extraction happens locally in your browser after the content is received. The extracted text is stored only in your browser's local storage on your device.
Ready to listen to an article? Go to the home page, tap the "URL" tab, and paste any article URL. The extraction and playback process takes just a few seconds.