VowelMarks

Persian reading workspace

Read Persian without leaving Persian.

VowelMarks makes the Persian you already browse easier to follow and more useful for learning. It adds the missing vowels and Ezafe fluent readers infer, then helps you hear, understand, and practice from the same text.

For heritage speakers and learners who understand more Persian than they can comfortably read, and want to get stronger through real text.

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گُلِ زیبایِ باغِ قَدیمی دَر بَهار شِکُفت.

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One Persian text a day is all it takes.VowelMarks helps you make it count.

Read Persian more confidently, one real page at a time.

If you understand Farsi aloud but lose momentum when it is written, you do not need another disconnected lesson. VowelMarks helps you read the messages, channels, and pages you already care about, then makes the patterns inside them easier to recognize next time.

Messages, channels, and community

Keep up with the Persian that matters to you.

Read family messages, community posts, and cultural rabbit holes with help inside the Persian itself. Add marks, listen, or ask VowelMarks AI when a line slows you down, then keep going.

Read it · Hear it · Keep up

WhatsApp WebTelegram WebFamily group chats
مMom · just now

مامان: کتاب جدیدت رو برای فردا آماده کن.

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Marked Persian

مامان: کِتابِ جَدیدِت رو بَرایِ فَردا آمادِه کُن.

Pinglish

maamaan: ketaab-e jadidet ro baraaye fardaa aamaadeh kon.

Learning through real Persian

Learn through the Persian you already want to read.

Each message, article, story, or class passage becomes material for your progress. With learning history on, VowelMarks remembers what needed help and uses what you read, save, and practice to shape Today’s Practice. My VowelMarks brings that practice together with your streak, weekly momentum, saved items, and latest progress.

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Today’s PracticeAdaptive HelpMy VowelMarks

AI learning, built around you

Your AI tutor, grounded in the Persian you read.

Ask VowelMarks AI about the exact sentence in front of you. Ask what clue determines a reading, why the grammar works that way, or how to read the passage naturally, then keep the conversation grounded in the Persian you chose.

Grounded in this passageAsk follow-up questions

Learning starts on the page

Your browser becomes the place where Persian reading gets easier.

Select a sentence or mark the visible page, ask VowelMarks AI about the exact Persian, and keep reading where you already are. What slows you down can later continue into My VowelMarks.

VowelMarks adding reading cues and answering a passage-grounded question on a Persian Wikipedia article
VowelMarks on Persian WikipediaMarks, context, and VowelMarks AI beside the original text.
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    Get VowelMarks for desktop Chrome.

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    Open a Persian page and select a sentence or mark the visible page.

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    Use marks, Pinglish, speech, VowelMarks AI, and practice without leaving the page.

Read it. Hear it. Understand it. Practice it.

Keep reading, or go deeper on the same page.

Start with the help you need now, then go deeper without leaving the Persian you chose to read.

Read it

See the reading cues the page leaves out.

Add short vowels and contextual Ezafe to the Persian already on the page. When a spelling is ambiguous, VowelMarks uses the surrounding sentence to clarify the intended reading. You can ask why a mark appears or choose another reading when needed.

Marked Persian · Contextual Ezafe · Alternate readings · Explain this markTry Marked Persian
Original Persian

گل زیبای باغ قدیمی در بهار شکفت.

With VowelMarks

گُلِ زیبایِ باغِ قَدیمی دَر بَهار شِکُفت.

Why these marks?Another readingLooks wrong?

Hear it

Connect the Persian you see to the Persian you already know.

Reveal Ezafe-aware Pinglish in familiar or academic notation, then hear the sentence aloud at a pace that works for you. Pronunciation support stays optional, so Persian remains the text you learn to read.

Ezafe-aware Pinglish · Academic notation · Persian speech · Pace controlsTry Pinglish
Persian source

سلام خوبی؟

Familiar Pinglish
salaam khoobi?
Academic notation
salām khūbī?
PlayVoiceAvaPaceNatural

Understand it

Get the missing context without leaving the sentence.

See what a word means here, inspect its origin and Persian alternatives, or translate Persian into English while keeping the original sentence visible. Open VowelMarks AI to ask follow-up questions about the exact passage, from what clue determines a reading to how to say it naturally, and keep the conversation going without leaving what you are reading.

VowelMarks AI · Meaning in context · Word Origin · Persian-to-English translationTry word help
Selected in this sentence

گُلِ زیبایِ باغِ قَدیمی دَر بَهار شِکُفت.

گُلselected word
Meaning hereflower
Origin

Persian, through Middle Persian gul

VowelMarks AIGrounded in this passage
What clue in this sentence tells me how to read this word?
The verb شِکُفت, “bloomed,” and دَر بَهار, “in spring,” point to گُل, gol, “flower,” rather than گِل, gel, “mud.”
TranslationPersian alternatives

Product Capabilities

Everything you need to read real Persian with confidence.

Choose the layer you need: marks, pronunciation, context, or practice. VowelMarks supports passive learning through the Persian you already encounter, then gives you active practice whenever you want to go deeper.

Read

See the cues that make written Persian easier to follow.

Marked Persian

Add short vowels and missing pronunciation cues directly to Persian text.

Ezafe, Made Visible

Reveal the spoken linking sound connecting words inside Persian phrases.

Context-Aware Readings

Use the surrounding sentence to clarify ambiguous spellings and choose another reading when needed.

Before You Read

Preview words that may slow you down before beginning a difficult passage.

Reading Comfort

Make dense Persian easier to follow with clearer typography, spacing, and reading controls.

Read in Place

Use VowelMarks with Persian on the web instead of rebuilding the text inside a separate course.

Hear

Connect Persian script to the pronunciation you already recognize.

Ezafe-Aware Pinglish

See readable pronunciation including connecting sounds that ordinary Pinglish often omits.

Familiar or Academic Notation

Choose doubled vowels such as aa or academic forms such as ā.

Hear Persian Spoken Aloud

Listen to Persian with the available voice and pace controls.

Understand

Open the context you need without abandoning the Persian sentence.

Meaning in Context

Understand what a word means in this sentence rather than seeing only an isolated definition.

VowelMarks AI

Chat about the Persian in front of you. Ask what clue determines a reading, why the grammar works that way, or how to read the passage naturally, then keep the conversation going.

Translation

Check the English meaning while keeping the original Persian visible.

Word Origin

Explore where a word came from and how its history relates to its current meaning.

Persian Alternatives

Compare careful Persian wording, register, and contextual fit.

Practice

Turn the Persian you chose into focused practice and personal guidance.

Today’s Practice

Return to a short daily set built from Persian you have already read, saved, or practiced.

Ask your personal tutor

Continue a passage-grounded conversation when a short explanation is not enough, using the Persian you chose and, with permission, the learning evidence you saved.

My VowelMarks

Bring Today’s Practice, saved items, your streak, weekly momentum, and recent progress into one quiet learning home.

Adaptive Help

Let familiar support fade while words and patterns that still cause difficulty return in later help and practice.

Our Mission

Persian should be easier to read…not replaced.

Our mission is to support the continued study, teaching, and everyday engagement with the Persian language by making written Persian more accessible.

We build tools that help learners, heritage speakers, educators, and researchers approach Persian text directly and with greater confidence—from pronunciation and meaning to grammar, listening, and active practice—while keeping Persian script at the center.

By strengthening access to written Persian today, we hope to open more pathways into its literature, history, and cultural heritage, including the wider legacy of ancient Persia.

For students & educators

VowelMarks for Persian Studies

As part of this mission, verified students and educators whose formal work includes substantial reading of Persian may apply for 50% off their first year of VowelMarks Pro.

Eligible areas may include Persian language, literature, linguistics, translation, Iranian Studies with a Persian-language component, and related programs centered on Persian texts. Studies related to ancient Persian civilization may also be eligible.

How to apply

VowelMarks for Persian Studies

Email support@vowelmarks.com with the details below. Approved applicants receive 50% off their first year of VowelMarks Pro. We review applications manually.

  1. Full name
  2. Institution or organization
  3. Role: student or educator
  4. Program, department, course, or research area
  5. Institutional email, if available
  6. One lightweight proof of eligibility, such as a course-registration screenshot, syllabus, faculty page, department directory, or enrollment document. You may redact student ID, grades, address, and unrelated information.
  7. A short note: what would make VowelMarks more useful for your work, and how likely are you to recommend it to someone else?

Pricing

Start free. Go further with Pro.

Free gives you the essential reading layer, VowelMarks AI, and guided practice. Pro removes the monthly limits from the tools you reach for most and gives you more room to listen, practice, and save what you learn.

Free

Read real Persian for free.

Use the core reading tools, ask VowelMarks AI for help, and try guided practice without paying.

$0forever
  • 50,000 web and 500,000 extension characters for each core reading tool
  • 20 answers from VowelMarks AI and Quick AI Help, plus 2 guided practice sessions each month
  • Basic and Premium Voice for difficult lines and short passages
Pro

Keep reading. Go deeper.

Unlimited core reading tools and VowelMarks AI, plus much more room to practice, listen, and keep what you learn.

$6per month, or $48 per year
  • Keep reading without monthly limits. Unlimited ordinary use of Marked Persian, Pinglish, and Word Origins.
  • Ask VowelMarks AI whenever you get stuck. Unlimited ordinary use of VowelMarks AI and Quick AI Help, plus 200 guided practice sessions a month.
  • Listen for longer. Unlimited ordinary Basic Voice use, 60 Premium Voice minutes each month, and saved Premium recordings.
  • Build on what you learn. Ten times the synced learning-history capacity across the website and extension.
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Questions

What readers usually want to know.

Is VowelMarks a web tool or a Chrome extension?

Both. The website is a complete Persian reading workspace for text you paste, while the Chrome extension brings the reading system onto real webpages. One VowelMarks account connects your plan and enabled learning history across the website and extension.

Does VowelMarks translate Persian?

Yes. VowelMarks can translate Persian into English while keeping the original Persian visible for comparison. Translation works alongside vowel marks and Ezafe, Pinglish, speech, VowelMarks AI, word origins, Persian alternatives, and practice as part of one connected reading experience.

What is Ezafe?

Ezafe is the connecting e sound that links many Persian nouns to adjectives, possessors, or other nouns. It is usually spoken but left unwritten.

Does it change the original webpage permanently?

No. VowelMarks adds a temporary reading layer in your browser. Reloading the page or clearing VowelMarks restores the ordinary display.

What kinds of Persian work best?

Modern Persian prose is strongest. Classical poetry, difficult literature, and highly colloquial writing remain more challenging.

How does VowelMarks protect the Persian text I submit?

VowelMarks keeps the submitted Persian intact in its reading results and does not use submitted content to train its own AI models. The Privacy Policy explains how each feature handles text and which controls are available.

Does it work on my phone?

The website tools work on phones. The extension requires desktop Chrome because Chrome mobile does not support desktop extensions.

What does VowelMarks remember?

The extension keeps bounded learning evidence on your device and, when you are signed in and personalized learning is enabled, synchronizes it with your account automatically. You can pause collection, export your cloud learning data, or delete it. A deletion advances the account's learning generation so connected extensions clear older local history instead of restoring it.

گل زیبای باغ قدیمی در بهار شکفت.گُلِ زیبایِ باغِ قَدیمی دَر بَهار شِکُفت.

Bring one Persian page you already want to read.

VowelMarks adds the missing cues where reading already happens: on the Persian page itself.

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