Narro
Read web pages and Kindle books using local AI voices
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I wanted a read-aloud extension that could read from the Kindle Online Reader. The ones I tried used voices I did not enjoy listening to or had a UX that was too cluttered or annoying or needed a signup.So I decided to vibe code my own. It is open source and uses open weight models that run in the browser.https://swrdfish.github.io/Narro/
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HN · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 46%)
- Horizontal
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Yes A browser read-aloud extension that runs open-weight TTS models locally is achievable with WebAssembly or WebGPU inference and standard extension APIs, as the builder's own description suggests.
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