Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader

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

Latest reviews

• (2024-08-20) Ember N: UPDATE: Since Ai is coming out I need a better voice and intonation and speech. im going for Speechify now cz there's not much good and clear. it's very straightforward machine voice. OLD REVIEW: OMGOODNESSS!! FINALLY!! i have a Manual and i am so lazy to just read it so i want it to speak while i do my chores so i can be multitasking and not just glued to the screen. The best feature is that it starts visually where you placed the screen on. This does not work with other readers because they always start with the TOP =( i love RoadAloud because i can click any of the area where it reads and starts from there. i chose the british accent because my brain thinks it's BBC news LOL! i will now uninstall Text to Speech and Text to Mp3 because these apps are the same except for Read Aloud. I'm going to stick with this for now. i know there are issues but for now it's fluid and it can even read through tables. will update if there is an issues that can't be resolved at all. Problem that I have been encountering: - program will read on its own after it has been paused. this only happens when i use the pause via keyboard. but pause works when i have clicked the pause button in the app. just a heads up. and i hope devs can fix that glitch so i can pause and unpause wirelessly without me having to physically click the app button. (not resolved)
• (2024-07-24) Manolo: Easily one of the best text-to-speech extension! However, I hope the developers would consider: Word highlighting. Currently only paragraphs are highlighted. This would be very useful as it would allow users to not only follow along what is being read (if they want to), but also, to immediately identify where they left off after a pause.
• (2024-05-08) zou: webの500語ほどのテキストを選択して実行すると途中で止まります。止まる時と、止まらない時があります。段落があり、空行があるところで多く止まります。なので、何回も選択実行する必要があり、イヤになります。google translate japaneseを選択したときになるようです。
• (2024-04-21) Miki Fadli: Far better than other. It will be more better if I can choose any speed. I'm waiting for that.
• (2024-03-12) Wow, been using this extension for many years. Very helpful to have tts on all devices. This one is great for desktop webpage reading :)
• (2023-12-20) Second Life Around: 💛💛💛💛💛 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓 ❗ 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙫𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚: 𝘎𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘖𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘝𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚: 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵 "𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆"​ 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵.​​
• (2023-12-04) Thanh Dân: Hoàn toàn free, dễ sử dụng. Dùng để nghe truyện rất sướng luôn haha.
• (2023-12-02) W. J. R. (Saltlake Seattleite): Now in December of the same year and no contact, that I am aware of yet, from the dev. I know these things are possible, though I do not know HOW to do them myself, so it makes me wonder if the dev just put this extension together and hasn't really looked back. It's been almost a year, so that to me is why the rating has been demoted further (from 4 to 2). I'll update and raise the star rating back up if I find something I missed from them, or end up hearing back eventually. Perfect for what I need it to do... ALMOST... I mean, it's nice that it has a pop-out window with the text it is reading, and that window has a handy "Back" "Play/Pause" "Forward" control button set on the top and a Text size down and up on the bottom left but OMG, why do I have to go into the settings on a separate screen to change the voice VOLUME, PITCH, and SPEED? Seriously, those should be on that main window so I can adjust as needed. I tend to have it read fast, but sometimes there are sections where I need to replay the text over and have it go a bit slower so I can fully understand what is being said, or so I can read along but some of the wording is a bit more complicated or a new word or term is introduced and I need a moment to look it up to make sure I better understand what it is. Please, put these controls on the main window where the text is being read so I don't have to mess around with going back and forth to adjust the speed or volume (I rarely mess with the pitch once I've got it where I like it), I will look around for the TTS I used to have, I forgot how helpful these can be, because it did have these functionalities available to adjust while it was reading and it made a huge difference in my ability to get what I was trying to go over.
• (2023-11-15) Jim Hecker: It was awesome, then it stopped working. Not sure what happened. I used this to listen to papers and kindle books for school, and I loved it. Then a few days ago it just stopped working. I have shut down, restarted, and no luck. I am deleting this now, and hope they can fix the issue.
• (2023-11-13) Randylahey666: The best free version you get today for American English, i'm sure the tech will get better with time but you ain't paying for it, the other languages are definitely a working progress as one might expect for a free version lol
• (2023-11-13) Will Swift: Please fix the problem that one cannot play endless text to audio while gaming in the background without going back to the browser every 2 minutes.
• (2023-11-10) Tony: Privacy says the app collects passwords? That's a bit concerning. Anyone know why these do that? ------- 2 years later and this is still the best Free TTS reader. I don't know why they don't have a paid version. ------- I love this extension. Easily allows me to multitask. I also use it on my phone.
• (2023-11-09) sharkdart: Would be nice if it provided an estimate of how long it will take to finish reading.
• (2023-11-01) Google Administrator: Good app very happy I use it all the time. Only thing I do not like about it is it wont let me remove it from my device.
• (2023-11-01) pakee pascharat: ว้าวเลย ไม่ต่างจากแอฟในมือถือเลย แถมไม่ต้องแก้ข้อความบางอย่าง เช่น พ.ศ. ก็อ่านได้โดยไม่ต้องปรับแก้ ลองมาหลายตัว ตัวนี้ดีสุด
• (2023-10-29) Nicholas Alexander (Nick): I couldn't get NVDA to work with PDFs and this extension did it without having to configure much of anything. Please don't change a thing.
• (2023-10-29) Hiep Nguyen: Rất tốt. Có hỗ trợ đọc tiếng Việt, đọc từ file PDF
• (2023-10-26) yasin cebeci: dünyadaki olan depremleri en güncel bir biçimde hızla bize aktaran bir deprem sitesi
• (2023-10-25) Huy Vũ: Sẽ tuyệt vời hơn nếu có thêm chức năng tăng tốc độ đọc :D
• (2023-10-25) The Organizational Coaches: Reliable, thumbs up.
• (2023-10-25) Eduards Radionovs: Thank you so much for this extension, it's so much easier to concentrate during reading and understand the context.
• (2023-10-23) Nam Tran: Works really well
• (2023-10-23) Woke: I love this extension! It's super fun to stumble across a random long comment on a forum/social media and make TTS read it when you're too lazy to read it yourself. I recommend these settings: * Voice: Google UK English Male (it's a fantastic basic voice that doesn't take time to load the text and doesn't keep asking for whatever permissions the advanced Google voices need) * Speed: 1.25 (this particular voice is very slow by default, 1.25 makes it both speedy and comfortable to listen to)
• (2023-10-18) Mark Palmos: Stupid. It keeps reading the first email in my inbox. If I select, for example, the 3rd email and open the extension, it again reads the first email in my inbox! This is completely useless to me.
• (2023-10-15) Abra Anderson: Everything was great, except it would stop and take several minutes to load.
• (2023-10-14) Андрей Аргунов: Есть пожелания: 1. Вынесите пожалуйста кнопки регулировки скорости на окно с текстом. Я читаю на разных языках и у разных голосов скорость может быть разная, поэтому при смене языка ее нужно регулировать вручную и это было бы удобно сделать, если бы кнопки скорости были рядом с кнопками увеличения шрифта. 2. Возможно ли сделать подсвечивание читаемого текста не в отдельном окне, а прямо на странице браузера? Если это возможно, это было бы очень удобно! И вдобавок было бы круто изменять цвет выделения текста с желтого на другой из палитры.
• (2023-10-09) Gabriella Silva: the pronunciation is awful
• (2023-10-06) Michael Salaverry: Great, and lets me use my own Google Cloud Platform key for text to speech with premium voices. The play-through-phone feature is also neat.
• (2023-10-02) Xiang Hua: It's good. Could you change the function of “stop” to “play/stop”, thus when reading is not carrying it can be launched. Thank you
• (2023-09-29) Elizabeth Wilson: wonderful. i enjoy the google US english version and speed it up. helps tremendously. thank you!
• (2023-09-28) Drastic Coder: Awesome extension!!! using this from past 7-8 months and LGTM. just need some adjustments in speed and u r good to go.
• (2023-09-28) Felipe Mello: Really good, especially when you change speed and voice based in your preference.
• (2023-09-27) Lennon Fontenelle: O único que funciona como desejado, podem testar que irão gostar.
• (2023-09-22) Patricia Lora: It does the job but it's horrible to listen to the voice it uses... I can't retain the information I'm hearing because it's just so unnatural.
• (2023-09-21) R P: Molto Utile, quando non si ha voglia di leggere. Il lettore leggere per te
• (2023-09-18) AV Va: Thank you for the useful extension and blessings in Jesus Christ name.
• (2023-09-17) Stephen Z: I use this extension daily with the premium voices from Google -- I can't recommend it highly enough. Thank you for maintaining this incredibly helpful extension. I hope ReadAloud will include the new "Google Studio" voices soon - they're the most natural sounding yet!
• (2023-09-16) Jonathan Murray: Wonderful extension that helps with my ADHD when reading long papers and text books. My only suggestion is to add a slidebar on the extension (as opposed to hidden in preferences) to alter the speed of the text reading. Most of the time I need to listen at 2x speed, but sometimes I need to slow it down and it would be nice to be able to change this without going into settings.
• (2023-09-15) God of Doggos: Its really good, i just had to edit the settings a bit to make the voice not super robotic with the slight static-y voice but besides that its rlly good!
• (2023-09-14) Devansh Upadhyay: noiceeeeeeeeee
• (2023-09-13) ChiuWong W: Why can't I play it with headphones? But movies can, and so can translations.
• (2023-09-13) Alexis Guerrero: No puedo creer que sea tan simple, efectivo y gratuito su uso. ¡Maravillosa extensión!
• (2023-09-10) Isaac Clements: Amazing! I was looking for a screen reader, text-to-speech, to help get through my online textbooks for class and this was amazing. Was able to be used on the webpage of my book, and has helped keep my focus on the book and stay engaged.
• (2023-09-08) raul ramirez: 5 stars easily, the best tool to learn english pronunciation, however the volume is too low, compared to other things on window, so more volume is needed. Curiously this problem is not present in microsoft edge, but i prefer chrome. it would be good that we could choose 2 voices and use a hotkey or at least be on favorites, for those cases when we want to learn 2 different lenguages.
• (2023-09-08) MD MESBAUL: If i exit the tab it stops the text to spech
• (2023-09-05) Gabriel Arruda: Funciona muito bem. No geral lê muito bem, mas usando PDFs de imagens de livros ele não consegue ler acentos no geral principalmente ç e ~, então preciso ficar acompanhando a leitura.
• (2023-09-04) Gokul Pothirajan: I love that I can put in a GCP key for great wavenet support - just what i was looking for! I would love to have a dedicated pop out into a separate tab button so that it can take up the whole screen. for now i right click report an issue and open in new tab and then close the report box this makes it a seperate tab and full screen.
• (2023-09-04) Michel Nielsen: Simple and works perfectly in Brave browser. Feature suggestion, Pattern modifiers: Currently I am reading the online Rust book which has a lot of programming code related characters in the regular text.. For example this passage "Here is a recap of the reasons to choose Box<T>, Rc<T>, or RefCell<T>". When the extension reads this out loud then it will read all the special charecters 'lesser-than' and 'greater-than' which quickly becomes tiresome. I wish that this extension had a feature where I could add a pattern and how I would like that pattern to be read (or if I wanted the pattern to be ignored completely). Then for my example case I would add the pattern "<T>" to be read as "T".
• (2023-09-04) Reka Farkas: On my mac it sounds like a sick old man
• (2023-09-04) Gary Hardt: I do like this extendtion I followed the promt to enable voicenet and it worked for awhile then it wanted me to to enable extra permissins for voicenet I did that too but now it stopped working I can't use it anymore. I tried to enale it multiple times and still nothing I even let it sit there for a like 10 minutes still nothing worked I even restarted my browser that did not work either.