# Google-Read-Aloud

> Fetches a page so Google can read it out loud with text-to-speech, at the moment a user asks. Formerly google-speakr. Google publishes fetcher addresses in two files — user-triggered-fetchers.json and user-triggered-fetchers-google.json — and does not say per fetcher which one applies, so verification means checking both; this index mirrors both.

| field | value |
|---|---|
| operator | Google |
| category | User-triggered fetchers |
| robots.txt token | `Google-Read-Aloud` |
| user-agent contains | `Google-Read-Aloud` |
| robots.txt | not governed by robots.txt (user-initiated, by operator policy) |
| verify by | published IP ranges |
| published IP ranges | https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers.json |
| prefixes mirrored | 529 IPv4 / 529 IPv6 |
| operator docs | https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-user-triggered-fetchers |
| last reviewed | 2026-09-01 |

## What blocking it costs you

A reader who asked Google to read your page aloud — often someone using it for accessibility — gets an error instead.

## Full user-agent string

```
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-Read-Aloud; +https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943)
```

## Block it

```
User-agent: Google-Read-Aloud
Disallow: /
```

## Allow it

```
User-agent: Google-Read-Aloud
Allow: /
```

JSON: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/google-read-aloud.json · index: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/llms.txt