Univocal Read Aloud for Zotero

Read PDFs aloud with Univocal and follow each spoken word in Zotero’s PDF reader.

Read your papers in Zotero

Listen with Univocal while each spoken word is highlighted in your PDF.

Select a passage to read it aloud, or start at the current page and keep going. Pause or stop from the PDF toolbar.

Set it up

You’ll need Zotero 7 through 10 and Univocal on the same Mac.

Download the plugin, then open Zotero’s Tools → Plugins. Click the gear button, choose Install Plugin From File…, and select the .xpi file.

Open Univocal, then choose Tools → Univocal Read Aloud → Connect to Univocal in Zotero. If Univocal asks for permission, allow Zotero to connect. Open a PDF and click the Univocal button to start reading.

Your text stays on this Mac

The plugin sends text only to Univocal on the same Mac. Speech is generated locally, without uploading your PDF text.

Before you install

PDFs only. Headers, page numbers and footnotes may be read aloud. In PDFs over 80 pages, you can’t skip back before the page where you started reading.