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Google Read Aloud

Name: Google Read Aloud
Author: Google

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Google Read Aloud service enables reading web pages using text-to-speech (TTS). Operated by Google.

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Assessment

Accessibility

What is Google Read Aloud?

Google Read Aloud is a web crawler operated by Google. Google Read Aloud service enables reading web pages using text-to-speech (TTS).

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Google Read Aloud

Operator

Google

Why it crawls your site

Google Read Aloud crawls websites to test and verify website accessibility compliance. It is operated by Google as part of their accessibility testing infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

IP ranges

Requests from Google Read Aloud originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.

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Block or allow Google Read Aloud

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Google-Read-Aloud in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Google Read Aloud from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Google-Read-Aloud
Disallow: /

# Allow Google Read Aloud full access
User-agent: Google-Read-Aloud
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Google-Read-Aloud. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Google's documentation.