diff --git a/browser/speedreader/speedreader_browsertest.cc b/browser/speedreader/speedreader_browsertest.cc
index 83e27e4b4c7..cd36185fdc0 100644
--- a/browser/speedreader/speedreader_browsertest.cc
+++ b/browser/speedreader/speedreader_browsertest.cc
@@ -70,16 +70,28 @@ const char kTestPageReadableOnUnreadablePath[] =
     "/speedreader/rewriter/pages/news_pages/abcnews.com/distilled.html";
 const char kTestPageRedirect[] = "/articles/redirect_me.html";
 const char kTestXml[] = "/article/rss.xml";
+const char kTestTtsSimple[] = "/speedreader/article/simple.html";
+const char kTestTtsTags[] = "/speedreader/article/tags.html";
+const char kTestTtsStructure[] = "/speedreader/article/structure.html";
 
 class SpeedReaderBrowserTest : public InProcessBrowserTest {
  public:
   SpeedReaderBrowserTest()
       : https_server_(net::EmbeddedTestServer::TYPE_HTTPS) {
 #if BUILDFLAG(ENABLE_AI_CHAT)
-    feature_list_.InitWithFeatures(
-        {speedreader::kSpeedreaderFeature, ai_chat::features::kAIChat}, {});
+    feature_list_.InitWithFeaturesAndParameters(
+        {{speedreader::kSpeedreaderFeature,
+          {
+            { speedreader::kSpeedreaderTTS.name,
+              "true" }
+          }},
+         { ai_chat::features::kAIChat,
+           { {} } }},
+        {});
 #else
-    feature_list_.InitAndEnableFeature(speedreader::kSpeedreaderFeature);
+    feature_list_.InitAndEnableFeatureWithParameters(
+        speedreader::kSpeedreaderFeature,
+        {{speedreader::kSpeedreaderTTS.name, "true"}});
 #endif
     brave::RegisterPathProvider();
     base::FilePath test_data_dir;
@@ -749,6 +761,24 @@ IN_PROC_BROWSER_TEST_F(SpeedReaderBrowserTest, RSS) {
                                      ISOLATED_WORLD_ID_BRAVE_INTERNAL));
 }
 
+IN_PROC_BROWSER_TEST_F(SpeedReaderBrowserTest, TTS) {
+  ToggleSpeedreader();
+
+  const std::string kCheckTtsParagraphs = R"js(
+    document.querySelectorAll('[tts-paragraph-index]').length
+  )js";
+
+  const char* pages[] = {kTestTtsSimple, kTestTtsTags, kTestTtsStructure};
+  for (const auto* page : pages) {
+    NavigateToPageSynchronously(page);
+    SCOPED_TRACE(page);
+    EXPECT_EQ(7, content::EvalJs(ActiveWebContents(), kCheckTtsParagraphs,
+                                 content::EXECUTE_SCRIPT_DEFAULT_OPTIONS,
+                                 ISOLATED_WORLD_ID_BRAVE_INTERNAL)
+                     .ExtractInt());
+  }
+}
+
 class SpeedReaderWithDistillationServiceBrowserTest
     : public SpeedReaderBrowserTest {
  public:
diff --git a/components/speedreader/resources/speedreader-desktop.js b/components/speedreader/resources/speedreader-desktop.js
index 03d1e1a9f06..7a68fd722f8 100644
--- a/components/speedreader/resources/speedreader-desktop.js
+++ b/components/speedreader/resources/speedreader-desktop.js
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ const getTextContent = (element) => {
     if (!element) {
         return null
     }
-    const text = element.innerText.replace(/\n|\r +/g, ' ').trim()
+    const text = (element.innerText || element.wholeText).replace(/\n|\r +/g, ' ').trim()
     if (text.length > 0) {
         return text
     }
@@ -61,26 +61,6 @@ const initTextToSpeak = () => {
         return
     }
 
-    const textTags = ['P', 'DIV', 'MAIN', 'ARTICLE', 'H1', 'H2', 'H3', 'H4', 'H5', 'STRONG', 'BLOCKQUOTE']
-
-    const extractParagraphs = (node) => {
-        let paragraphs = []
-        if (!node) {
-            return paragraphs
-        }
-        for (const child of node.children) {
-            if (textTags.indexOf(child.tagName) >= 0) {
-                const childParagraphs = extractParagraphs(child)
-                if (childParagraphs.length == 0) {
-                    paragraphs.push(child)
-                } else {
-                    paragraphs = paragraphs.concat(childParagraphs)
-                }
-            }
-        }
-        return paragraphs
-    }
-
     let textToSpeak = 0
 
     const makeParagraph = (elem) => {
@@ -110,7 +90,43 @@ const initTextToSpeak = () => {
 
     makeParagraph($(metaDataDivId)?.querySelector('.title'))
 
-    extractParagraphs($(contentDivId)).forEach((p) => {
+    // Returns true if node is a leaf of the parentNode.
+    const isChildOf = (node, parentNode) => {
+        if (!parentNode) return false
+
+        while (node) {
+            if (node == parentNode) return true
+            node = node.parentNode
+        }
+        return false
+    }
+
+    nodes = document.createNodeIterator(
+        $(contentDivId),
+        NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT,
+        { acceptNode(n) { return NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT } })
+
+    let currentParent = null;
+    let paragraphs = []
+    while ((currentNode = nodes.nextNode())) {
+        if (currentNode === nodes.root ||
+            isChildOf(currentNode, currentParent) ||
+            !getTextContent(currentNode)) {
+            continue
+        }
+        currentParent = currentNode.parentNode
+
+        // Remove all nodes that are children of the current node.
+        // It is only possible when a paragraph starts with <tag>text</tag>,
+        // in this case NodeIterator produces sequence <tag> -> <p>,
+        // but <p> is a parent of the <tag>, so we add <p> and remove <tag>
+        paragraphs = paragraphs.filter((p) => {
+            return !isChildOf(p, currentParent)
+        })
+        paragraphs.push(currentNode.parentElement)
+    }
+
+    paragraphs.forEach((p) => {
         if (makeParagraph(p)) {
             createPlayer(p)
         }
diff --git a/components/speedreader/tts_player.cc b/components/speedreader/tts_player.cc
index 1011d14289c..ca5eb90fefd 100644
--- a/components/speedreader/tts_player.cc
+++ b/components/speedreader/tts_player.cc
@@ -221,8 +221,7 @@ const std::string& TtsPlayer::Controller::GetParagraphToRead() {
 
 void TtsPlayer::Controller::DidStartNavigation(
     content::NavigationHandle* handle) {
-  if (!handle->IsInPrimaryMainFrame() ||
-      handle->GetReloadType() == content::ReloadType::NONE) {
+  if (!handle->IsInPrimaryMainFrame() || handle->IsSameDocument()) {
     return;
   }
   Stop();
diff --git a/test/data/speedreader/article/simple.html b/test/data/speedreader/article/simple.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..44fd7fc0ce4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/data/speedreader/article/simple.html
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+  <body>
+    <article>
+      <h1>Test document title</h1>
+      <p>
+        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+    </article>
+  </body>
+</html>
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diff --git a/test/data/speedreader/article/structure.html b/test/data/speedreader/article/structure.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2e0be45ffdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/data/speedreader/article/structure.html
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+  <body>
+    <article>
+      <section>
+      <h1>Test document title</h1>
+      <p>
+        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+      <div>
+      <div>
+      <p>
+        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+      </div>
+      </div>
+      </section>
+      </div>
+    </article>
+  </body>
+</html>
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diff --git a/test/data/speedreader/article/tags.html b/test/data/speedreader/article/tags.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e47b55d56f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/data/speedreader/article/tags.html
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+  <body>
+    <article>
+      <h1>Test document title</h1>
+      <p>
+        <a href="#">Lorem</a><em>ipsum</em><strong>dolor</strong> sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Lorem <b>ipsum</b> dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
+        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
+        quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
+        consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
+        cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
+        proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
+      </p>
+    </article>
+  </body>
+</html>
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