Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader

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Overview

Read aloud the current web-page article with one click, using text to speech (TTS). Supports 40+ languages.

Read Aloud uses text-to-speech (TTS) technology to convert webpage text to audio. It works on a variety of websites, including news sites, blogs, fan fiction, publications, textbooks, school and class websites, and online university course materials. Read Aloud allows you to select from a variety of text-to-speech voices, including those provided natively by the browser, as well as by text-to-speech cloud service providers such as Google Wavenet, Amazon Polly, IBM Watson, and Microsoft. Some of the cloud-based voices may require additional in-app purchase to enable. Read Aloud can read PDF, Google Docs, Google Play books, Amazon Kindle, and EPUB (via the excellent EPUBReader extension from epubread.com). Read Aloud is intended for users who prefer to listen to content instead of reading, those with dyslexia or other learning disabilities, and children learning to read. To use Read Aloud, navigate to the web page you want to read, then click the Read Aloud icon on the Chrome menu. In addition, the shortcut keys ALT-P, ALT-O, ALT-Comma, and ALT-Period can be used to Play/Pause, Stop, Rewind, and Forward. You may also select the text you want to read before activating the extension. Right clicking on the selected text will provide you with yet another option to activate Read Aloud via the context menu. To change the voice, reading speed, pitch, or enable text highlighting, go to the Options page either by right clicking on the Read Aloud icon and choose Options, or by clicking the Gear button on the extension popup (you'll need to stop playback to see the Gear button). Read Aloud is an open-source project. If you wish to contribute bug fixes or translations, please visit the GitHub page at https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud.

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Pradip Patil
Oct 12, 2024

best app ever ...i love you who so ever has developed it

Vincent Fischer (C0br4)
Oct 11, 2024

Great extension but as a multilingual I wish you could have multiple entries to read in a specific voice or language. It's really cumbersome to set a voice. You select a text. You click on the extension icon, it starts playing, you click stop, you click the gear, set a language, now you can rightclick and click "read aloud the selected text" with proper voice. These steps I have to do every single time for every single use. It would be so much better if you could set multiple voices that wou... Show more

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GRA38 MAYA Maya Alessandra C. Samson
Oct 9, 2024

its very good i use it a lot !! but could u please add an option to make reading slower/faster ? i use text to speech to follow along with the words since it helps me focus and engrain it in my mind better, but its a bit disconcerting when the speed at which my eyes are reading isnt the same as the speed at which im hearing the text

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Details

Version
2.11.0
Updated
May 21, 2024
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443KiB
Languages
9 languages
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158 Magellan Ave San Jose, CA 95116 US
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