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Immersive Reader
Use Immersive Reader to listen and read with minimal distractions. It extracts only relevant text from the webpage, ignoring images, hyperlinks, caption text, and other unnecessary text on the page.
Immersive Reader works with most websites with standard formatting, but may be unavailable on other sites.
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After Immersive Reader:
Enter Immersive Reader mode from the extension's expanded toolbar.
If you don't have Quick Start enabled, launch the extension by clicking on NaturalReader's logo from your pinned extensions or by selecting NaturalReader from your extensions list. Both options are next to the address bar. Or use the hotkey for Active the extension.
Hover the pointer over the extension and select the arrow to expand the widget
Select Immersive
Immersive Reader Text Preferences
You can further customize the look of Immersive Reader with its Text Preferences settings.
After activating Immersive Reader, select Text Preferences from the left panel.
Text Size
Increase or decrease the font size of the text.
Text Spacing
Increases the spaces between characters.
Dyslexia-Friendly Font
Use Dyslexia-Friendly Font, which some readers find easier reading from.
Blur Text
Have only the words being read aloud in the moment in focus and blur all other text.
Closed Captions
Follow along with the reading using Closed Captions.
On websites where Immersive Reader is incompatible, Closed Captions may be available to use instead. This includes Google Docs and Kindle for Web, which do not support Immersive Reader but can support Closed Captions.
Launch the extension by clicking on NaturalReader's logo from your pinned extensions or by selecting NaturalReader from your extensions list. Both options are next to the address bar.
Select the left arrow to expand the extension widget
Press Play or use the hotkey to begin listening to the text
From the expanded toolbar, select CC if available
You can now follow along with the reading using the Closed Captions along the bottom of the page
