diff --git a/tts.js b/tts.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5d56518
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tts.js
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+const NS = {
+    XML: 'http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace',
+    SSML: 'http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis',
+}
+
+export const insertMarks = (textWalker, doc, granularity) => {
+    const lang = doc.lang || doc.documentElement.getAttributeNS(NS.XML, 'lang') || 'en'
+    const segmenter = new Intl.Segmenter(lang, { granularity })
+
+    const granularityIsWord = granularity === 'word'
+    const func = function* (strs, makeRange) {
+        const str = strs.join('')
+        let name = 0
+        let strIndex = -1
+        let sum = 0
+        for (const { index, segment, isWordLike } of segmenter.segment(str)) {
+            if (granularityIsWord && !isWordLike) continue
+            while (sum <= index) sum += strs[++strIndex].length
+            const startIndex = strIndex
+            const startOffset = index - (sum - strs[strIndex].length)
+            const end = index + segment.length
+            if (end < str.length) while (sum <= end) sum += strs[++strIndex].length
+            const endIndex = strIndex
+            const endOffset = end - (sum - strs[strIndex].length)
+            yield [(name++).toString(),
+                makeRange(startIndex, startOffset, endIndex, endOffset)]
+        }
+    }
+
+    const clone = document.implementation.createHTMLDocument()
+    clone.documentElement.replaceWith(clone.importNode(doc.documentElement, true))
+
+    // we need the ranges on both the original document (for highlighting)
+    // and the cloned document (for inserting marks)
+    // so unfortunately we need to do it twice, as you can't copy the ranges
+    // (not unless you serialize them, which is proly going to be even slower)
+    const items = [...textWalker(doc, func)]
+    const cloneItems = [...textWalker(clone, func)]
+
+    for (const [name, range] of cloneItems) {
+        const mark = clone.createElement('foliate-mark')
+        mark.dataset.name = name
+        range.insertNode(mark)
+    }
+    return { doc: clone, ranges: items }
+}
+
+export const toSSML = doc => {
+    const ssml = document.implementation.createDocument(NS.SSML, 'speak')
+    const lang = doc.lang || doc.documentElement.getAttributeNS(NS.XML, 'lang')
+    if (lang) ssml.documentElement.setAttributeNS(NS.XML, 'lang', lang)
+
+    const ps = ['p', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6', 'li', 'blockquote', 'dd']
+
+    const convert = (node, parent, inheritedAlphabet) => {
+        if (node.nodeType === 3) return ssml.createTextNode(node.textContent)
+        if (node.nodeType === 4) return ssml.createCDATASection(node.textContent)
+        if (node.nodeType !== 1) return
+
+        let el
+        const nodeName = node.nodeName.toLowerCase()
+        if (nodeName === 'foliate-mark') {
+            el = ssml.createElementNS(NS.SSML, 'mark')
+            el.setAttribute('name', node.dataset.name)
+        }
+        else if (ps.includes(nodeName)) el = ssml.createElementNS(NS.SSML, 'p')
+        else if (nodeName === 'em' || nodeName === 'strong')
+            el = ssml.createElementNS(NS.SSML, 'emphasis')
+
+        const lang = node.lang || node.getAttributeNS(NS.XML, 'lang')
+        if (lang) {
+            if (!el) el = ssml.createElementNS(NS.SSML, 'lang')
+            el.setAttributeNS(NS.XML, 'lang', lang)
+        }
+
+        const alphabet = node.getAttributeNS(NS.SSML, 'alphabet') || inheritedAlphabet
+        if (!el) {
+            const ph = node.getAttributeNS(NS.SSML, 'ph')
+            if (ph) {
+                el = ssml.createElementNS(NS.SSML, 'phoneme')
+                if (alphabet) el.setAttribute('alphabet', alphabet)
+                el.setAttribute('ph', ph)
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (!el) el = parent
+
+        let child = node.firstChild
+        while (child) {
+            const childEl = convert(child, el, alphabet)
+            if (childEl && el !== childEl) el.append(childEl)
+            child = child.nextSibling
+        }
+        return el
+    }
+    return convert(doc.body, ssml.documentElement)
+}
diff --git a/view.js b/view.js
index 805c179..2de3f04 100644
--- a/view.js
+++ b/view.js
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ export class View extends HTMLElement {
     #tocProgress
     #pageProgress
     #searchResults = new Map()
+    #speechRanges
     isFixedLayout = false
     lastLocation
     history = new History()
@@ -408,6 +409,19 @@ export class View extends HTMLElement {
             for (const item of list) this.deleteAnnotation(item)
         this.#searchResults.clear()
     }
+    async speak(granularity) {
+        const { insertMarks, toSSML } = await import('./tts.js')
+        const doc = this.renderer.getContents()[0].doc
+        const { doc: markedDoc, ranges } = insertMarks(textWalker, doc, granularity)
+        this.#speechRanges = new Map(ranges)
+        const ssml = toSSML(markedDoc)
+        return new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(ssml)
+    }
+    hightlightSpeechMark(name) {
+        const range = this.#speechRanges.get(name)
+        if (range) this.renderer.scrollToAnchor(range, true)
+        else console.warn('Mark not found')
+    }
 }
 
 customElements.define('foliate-view', View)