Persian reading practice for Chrome
VowelMarks is a Chrome extension that turns the real Persian you browse into low-friction reading practice. It adds the missing vowels and Ezafe fluent readers infer, so you can keep reading instead of translating every line.
For heritage speakers and learners who understand more Persian than they can comfortably read, and want to get stronger through real text.
Built for desktop Chrome. Learn from the Persian you already chose to read.
Free web tool
گُلِ زیبایِ باغِ قَدیمی دَر بَهار شِکُفت.
No explanations are available for this result.
gol-e zibaa-ye baagh-e ghadimi dar bahaar shekoft.
Pinglish is unavailable for this result.
Checking the words…
No Arabic-origin words with confident Persian alternatives were found in this passage.
Translating…
Each web tool accepts up to 6,000 characters per request.
Preparing Persian speech…
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This experiment applies an audible Yazd-inspired pitch, focus, and phrase-rhythm profile while reading your exact words. It is an experimental regional performance, not a recording of a verified native speaker.
Want this help on every Persian webpage? Use VowelMarks while you read, without copying and pasting.
Get VowelMarks for ChromePractice, not another lesson
You do not need to stop, copy every line into a translator, or open a separate course. VowelMarks makes the missing reading cues visible on the Persian already in front of you, so each message, post, or webpage can become one more moment of real reading practice. When you choose to practice, its AI reading coach can turn that same page into a short session that adapts as words become familiar.
گل زیبای باغ قدیمی در بهار شکفت.
گُلِ زیبایِ باغِ قَدیمی دَر بَهار شِکُفت.
The extension is the product
The web tool is useful for a passage. VowelMarks for Chrome removes the copying and pasting: select a sentence or mark the visible page, get the help you need, then keep reading where you already are.
Get VowelMarks for desktop Chrome.
Open a Persian page and select a sentence or mark the visible page.
Read with marks, Pinglish, speech, explanations, and practice directly on the page.
More than diacritics
Every feature below is available in the extension today, built around the Persian you actually want to read.
Read the sentence
VowelMarks adds short vowels and contextual Ezafe, distinguishes many ambiguous spellings, and explains why a mark is there — grounded in the marks actually applied. Choose another reading for one occurrence, or report a result that looks wrong.
Marks · Ezafe · Context · Alternate readings · Grounded explanationsLearn more about reading cuesگُلِ زیبایِ باغِ قَدیمی دَر بَهار شِکُفت.
Hear the language
Pinglish gives unfamiliar words a pronunciation you can already read, with academic vowel marks available when you want them, while premium Persian speech lets you hear the selected sentence with pace, style, and tone controls — without replacing the script.
Pinglish · Academic vowels · Premium speech · Experimental Yazd-inspired profileLearn more about pronunciationسلام خوبی؟
Open the word
Translate the selected passage, inspect a word’s origin, compare careful Persian alternatives, and copy a complete reading package when you need to take it elsewhere.
Translation · Word origin · Alternatives · Copy packageLearn more about word helpدوست
Learn from the page
The AI reading coach turns the Persian in front of you into a short practice session — grounded questions on short vowels, Ezafe, and ambiguous words, with feedback on what you got wrong. Active Reading adapts which marks stay visible as words become familiar, and an experimental open-ended AI quiz mode is available when you turn it on.
AI coach · Active Reading · Written ↔ everyday speechLearn more about practiceاو کتابِ جدید را خواند.
Which short vowel belongs on ج in جدید?
Correct — the tutor explains why zir fits this sentence.
AI actions send the text you submit to Google. Do not submit sensitive or confidential text.
Accuracy and privacy
VowelMarks is strongest on modern Persian prose. Poetry, difficult literature, and highly colloquial writing remain more challenging, and native-speaker quality review is not complete.
Zero base-text preservation failures in that test.
Measured on held-out gold data.
Measured on 491 usable held-out rows.
"I could speak Farsi and knew the alphabet, but reading was slow because the vowels I heard were usually not written. I built VowelMarks to bridge that gap without replacing Persian with English."
Questions
The Chrome extension is the main product. The web tool lets you try the same kind of Persian reading help on pasted text.
Yes, translation is available when requested. The main reading experience keeps the Persian visible and adds pronunciation help to it.
Ezafe is the connecting e sound that links many Persian nouns to adjectives, possessors, or other nouns. It is usually spoken but left unwritten.
No. VowelMarks adds a temporary reading layer in your browser. Reloading the page or clearing VowelMarks restores the ordinary display.
Modern Persian prose is strongest. Classical poetry, difficult literature, and highly colloquial writing remain more challenging.
Core mark processing in the extension runs in a browser-compatible local runtime. The website tool sends only the text you explicitly submit to its API.
The website tools work on phones. The extension requires desktop Chrome because Chrome mobile does not support desktop extensions.
Reading history is off by default. If you enable local learning history, you can pause, export, or delete it from the extension.
گل زیبای باغ قدیمی در بهار شکفت.گُلِ زیبایِ باغِ قَدیمی دَر بَهار شِکُفت.
VowelMarks adds the missing cues where reading already happens: on the Persian page itself.
Get VowelMarks for Chrome