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Google Read Aloud

Google
Directory statusActive
Last updatedSep 20, 2026

Overview

Google Read Aloud is a monitoring bot from Google used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review; it appears in server logs as .

Profile

Operator
Google
Classification
Fetcher
Verification
Verified
Last verified
Aug 7, 2026
Common Use
Fetching and reading web pages aloud with text-to-speech when a user requests Google Read Aloud.
Company
Google
Confidence
High
Family
Google
Identity Type
verified-bot
Kind
fetcher
Purpose
text-to-speech-fetching
Respects Robots
depends