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

• (2021-09-25) Samiat Abdulraheem: how do you use it
• (2021-09-24) Devin: This extension promoted anti-vaxx agenda. GitHub issue #232 asking for explanation has been deleted, but is available on archive.
• (2021-09-24) Alex H: Constantly have to grant permissions and it eventually stopped working alltogether. The free non-English voices sound very robotic.
• (2021-09-22) Đức Trọng: Thêm tốc độ đọc giúp em với ad Cảm ơn ad, mình rất thích extension này.
• (2021-09-20) Batuhan AKTAŞ: Gayet güzel. Sesin hızını, seslendireni vb. ayarlayabiliyorsunuz. Makaleleri Türkçe dinleyip İngilizce okumak için (ya da tam tersi) ideal.
• (2021-09-20) Grant Gillespie: This is a hidden gem. Simple interface but truly powerful, and _way_ cheaper than that other one that spams me on YouTube ads. Only things missing: 1. On-page highlighting. 2. Mobile functionality (this is really low on my list, but would be nice). 3. An obvious way to support the developers. I was able to easily get my AWS account configured to use some high-quality Polly neural voices, but I would be happy to pay you a premium to do it for me! A function that surprised me was in using it with VitalSource textbooks. First I was surprised that it worked at all (other expensive TTS extension didn't work on VS). Second, it automatically turned the page at the right time! VS actually makes it difficult to turn the page just using the keyboard (have to use the mouse), so this is _so nice_ for me!
• (2021-09-20) lince music: por que no lee dice que necesita permisos pero no se como ponerlos como se hace eso
• (2021-09-17) Rachel Jozen: The reading is choppy and the inflection is so off sometimes that it's hard to understand what it's saying. Also, the voice reads dashes as "minus," so if the text has words that are offset by dashes - like this - then the voice reads it, "minus like this minus," which is confusing.
• (2021-09-15) Slade Matthews: Just installed this extension after being offered various paid alternatives. Seems awesome so far. I use it to read dense technical material to improve comprehension.
• (2021-09-14) june sun: I mostly use it for the Kindle Cloud Reader and it was working fine for several months. Now for some reason, it won't work on half of my books. Even on books that it used to work with a weeks ago. I don't know what changed, but it doesn't work on half of my Kindle Cloud Reader books.
• (2021-09-14) Janelle Clancy: The voices are very robotic. I can not listen to the robotic voice for too long. I prefer Google Chrome but I have to switch to other platforms for "read out loud" option.
• (2021-09-13) Stormy: This works really well. It helps me stay on track and it has many voices to choose from.
• (2021-09-11) Princinera Official: voce robotica, spesso si mangia le ultime due parole. legge qualsiasi file e qualsiasi sito.
• (2021-09-10) Shilo D Thompson: It's nice because you can customize the voice speed and pitch-- it's straight forward and doesn't have anything unnecessary. I'm giving it 2 stars because it doesn't function correctly. On both my work computer and home computer, through several chrome profiles, I get the same issue: When it's reading aloud it'll suddenly stop. I'll highlight a text-- right click to read aloud-- it'll start reading aloud and then just quit randomly seemingly for no reason. It drives me batty, I've tried everything I can think of to fix it. Google the issue doesn't seem to help.
• (2021-09-10) Casey Wood: So far this text to speech tool has the most comprehensive functionality available compared to the other text to speech tools i have tried with chrome. Please add the functionality to add keyboard shortcuts or key-bindings to the following: 1)Reading speed increase and 2) reading speed decrease. This is a absolute winner of an extension. I use it mostly because i am slow at reading and i can use the speed up function to read it faster than what i would. I am working on increasing my reading speed but for now this has increased my productivity substantially. Thank you lsdsoftware.com
• (2021-09-10) Lethal Liquidator: Depending on websites, pdfs, etc. The extension will start somewhere else then u highlighted. 99% of the time it works perfectly tho.
• (2021-09-10) Rattanawan Lamluetraiphob: easy to use ใช้ง่าย ไฮไลท์คำแล้วคลิกขวา ก็เลือกให้อ่านคำได้เลย
• (2021-09-08) Niaz Choudhury: Verry helpful for s student or a person that dosen't want to read it or it can say it for you if you don't understand somthing
• (2021-09-08) David Lloyd-Jones: A Spanish language reader appropriate to the Donald Trump era. An enemy made with every word. Like any rotten old blunderbuss, very dangerous to the user: if it brings you contempt without danger, reckon yourself lucky.
• (2021-09-08) Dvari R: Excelente, con voz clara y natural. ☺
• (2021-09-07) Robiul Islam: Love it. It also works in Bangla. Thanks a lot to all team.
• (2021-09-07) Abhimanyu Kumar: Wonderful extension. Without tts i use to avoid reading long texts, thus making reading easier. Just waiting it to implement select the text to read on webpage itself rather than than the dialog box.
• (2021-09-07) Karen Zachary: It stops a LOT. I want to click this button and make lunch while I listen to a long email or article, but nope. It reads for five or ten seconds and then stops. There must be a better way.
• (2021-09-06) Davie B: Works great! Short delay between sentences. Not too bad though.
• (2021-09-06) Tran Trung Kien B1808549: tiện ích hoạt rất tốt
• (2021-09-05) Uehara Shinya: Does not work properly
• (2021-09-04) Kavan Motazedi: It's awesome. Kudos to the developers. Hope they keep improving it.
• (2021-09-04) Dan Wolf: This extension injects ads into google.com. I was surprised because I thought something like that should be mentioned up front. Then I looked up the privacy practices tab in the extension page and they say they collect authentication information, for example: passwords, credentials, security question, or personal identification number (PIN). This is somewhat disturbing that a screen reader app would do something like this. Please uninstall and change your passwords!
• (2021-09-03) Lucas Antunes: This extension is great. Hearing what I'm reading helps me memorize and understand it better, and Read Aloud does it in the speed and pitch I can follow! The only suggestion I'd give the DEVs is to have the option to choose multiple languages and maybe have a shortcut for me to switch between them. English is not my native language, although I read stuff on it a lot, and I'd love to be able to switch between it and Portuguese easily as I'm about to read something in it, without having to manually go into the options and change it everytime.
• (2021-09-03) Crystal R: I have tried so many text readers and this is the only one that works well consistently and I've never had to restart it. It's simple, no fancy layouts or anything, but it works. Every time.
• (2021-09-02) Andrew Hubbard: Works always. Definitely needs to sort out bullet points though. No need to read them.
• (2021-09-01) Andy PengQ: 非常赞，使用起来非常方便，但最近发现一个问题，文章字数太多时，不能获取到全部文字
• (2021-08-31) Bichito: Me da error cuando intento que lea una pagina, *No se puede leer en voz alta esta pagina* lo instale por que no sabia que Edge lleva su propio lector que funciona de maravilla.
• (2021-08-31) Dustin Whyte: I love this extension for reading books from my Google Play Books library. One issue that prevents me from giving it 5 stars is that it puts a period at the end of a word when turning a page, which can cause some sentences to sound strange
• (2021-08-30) Franny b: Love using this tool to review my notes and I love that it is free!
• (2021-08-29) Daniel Y.P: Es muy buena, me encanta, pero de un dia para otro el español de google es-ES-Wavenet-B Male (Super realista) se sustituyó por otra que no lo es tanto, hay alguna forma de ponerla de nuevo? muchas gracias y de nuevo gran trabajo
• (2021-08-28) Omar Alodaini: The most realistic out of all extentions
• (2021-08-27) _MemoryCore_: the voice is...not to my likings
• (2021-08-25) EpicWolfboy11 D: gud
• (2021-08-22) saj K: very good
• (2021-08-22) Kritoweed Arsuna: This extension very best for me.This first comment for me i love it so much.Thank you for developer.
• (2021-08-22) Kipper Wonderdog: Surprised how realistic the various speech choices sounds. No cringey robot talking. FYI, it doesn't seem to work on webpages when they are in slimmed-down Reader Mode".
• (2021-08-20) L C: 很棒 但有兩點不夠完美 1.可以不可有個選項 不要念網址 2.如果中英文交錯的文章 可不可以同時設定兩種
• (2021-08-19) Gerardo G: It has a wide choice of voices and works quite fine. My issue with this is you can't select voices for different languages. I read both Spanish and English pages so my only option is to use the "Autoselect" voice option, which will correclty identify the language, however I dislike very much the default female Spanish voice. I wish I could choose a voice for each language I use and then have the autoselect to identify the language and read with the voice I selected for each language. If I select a voice that I like in Spanish for example it will use the same voice in English and that doesn't work because everything is mispronounced. Just a suggestion for improvement. Thanks.
• (2021-08-13) Achyut De: Very simple to use yet powerful concept!! I loved it. :-)
• (2021-08-12) Niyas Musthafa: I read a lot in web sites and this tool is awesome! Even offline pdf are able to read by uploading to https://assets.lsdsoftware.com/read-aloud/page-scripts/pdf-upload.html I've bookmarked this link in my chrome new tab. One suggestion: Please allow Repeat button in the options which will repeat the same paragraph until we press Forward/Rewind button
• (2021-08-11) NICE: Excellent!!!
• (2021-08-10) Amar Boparai: Great!
• (2021-08-09) Jurij Fedorov: The app itself is great! It's really good programming work and right away I find it useful as I can have articles read while I do other stuff. This makes life easier. I do have an issue with the app controls hiding away when you click anywhere else. So you can't actually do other stuff on your PC or in your browser unless you want to constantly click the small app icon to control the audio. This is a major issue. It's still usable, but this is terrible. You also need to understand what you get here. You can select the bad free Google voices and the 3 terrible Microsoft voices that come with Windows 10. The proper voices by Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and other companies are not free. So you can pick free robotic sounding voices, but the natural voices you often see in Youtube videos are all paid-for services. There is no good natural free voice. This means that whatever you pick you'll hear that Stephen Hawking voice to some degree and it will sound fake and unnatural. Basically, if you want to use this tool properly you'd want to subscribe to Amazon or Google and pay per 1000 words read. If you don't want to pay for it you have to settle for the robotic voice you find the least irritating. I'm frankly not sure why not a single company has released a single proper voice for free. There are probably 20 really good ones out there.
• (2021-08-08) Jason: Helps a ton when trying to multitask across different tabs, speed read text when you're feeling lazy, and to proof read. The only downside is that I've recently lost the ability to right click to read aloud - it's a bit more inconvenient to go to the top of the browser and press the extensions.

Latest issues

• (2021-09-25, v:1.47.0) Joel Dubow: Starting point navigation in Read Aloud
  How do I get read aloud to start where I want it to. It starts at the top of the page, but if I want to skip a few pages and start on a later page I can't do that. Is there a way to control where Read Aloud starts reading?
• (2021-09-23, v:1.47.0) Sador Yemane: Authentication Info
  I was wondering why the app needs to collect authentication information? Cheers, Sador
• (2021-09-22, v:1.47.0) Arndís Kjartansdóttir: Not working anymore
  Hi, we distribute the extension through our Google Workplace to the school Chromebooks. The Read aloud extension has always worked but now it does not work anymore on the Chromebooks. It shows white blank page an then nothing.
• (2021-09-21, v:1.47.0) Mary Flagerman: TTS voice
  Hello! I know from past experience that I like the Uk English reading voice Brian and when I try to select him it asks me to sign in to use the premium voices but when I do nothing happens just a blank page pops and I still am unable to use the voice I want. Please help!
• (2021-09-20, v:1.47.0) Ivy Sanborn: How do I use this on PDFs
  1. I don't understand how to utilize this tool and make it perform. It doesn't stay in my extensions area next to my search bar, and I can't make it read my text. 2. How do I use this on PDFs? I have no idea.
• (2021-09-20, v:1.47.0) Rob Cosentino: Right-click context menu entry gone?
  2 days ago it disappeared from the list and forced me to pin the Read Aloud megaphone icon and click on it which opens it's GUI. I used the right-click context menu entry everyday to read text after highlighting in Chrome. Is this gone now? I'm using Chrome version 93.0.4577.82 (Official Build) (64-bit). I really need it back! Thanks!
• (2021-09-15, v:1.47.0) Juli X: Highlighting readed text on the page?
  Can you highlight the readed text on the page (e.g. in yellow)?
• (2021-09-10, v:1.46.1) Ashvin Meetoo: Extension gets killed without reason
  Hello, I have noticed that from time to time while reading a sentence the extension stops while reading an exact location, there's no special characters or anything that can explain this behaviour. If I re-read the same selection it stops at the same place. What I do is that I select just after where the error occurs.
• (2021-09-09, v:1.45.0) Abhimanyu Kumar: Ability to select and get the highlighted text on webpage itself
  1 step away from being great app. Instead of selecting the text within the dialog box to read/skip if you can do this on the webpage itself, i think it can improve the functionality a lot. Another extension Naturalreader has a similar design. For now you have to scroll a lot if you want to read selectively on a web page. Hope to get it implemented soon. Thanks for the wonderful extension.
• (2021-09-08, v:1.45.0) Zorro Cheng: The Chinese language selection always fall to Mandarin even my selection is Cantonese
  I find the plugin is extremely useful for me. However, I found the language selection always speak in Mandarin even the selection is showing Cantonese. I need to reselect Cantonese to make it speak Cantonese after I restart the browser. Can it be fixed?
• (2021-09-07, v:1.45.0) Abhimanyu Kumar: Ability to select and get the highlighted text on webpage itself
  1 step away from being great app. Instead of selecting the text within the dialog box to read/skip if you can do this on the webpage itself, i think it can improve the functionality a lot. Another extension Naturalreader has a similar design. For now you have to scroll a lot if you want to read selectively on a web page. Hope to get it implemented soon. Thanks for the wonderful extension.
• (2021-09-05, v:1.45.0) Wild Dog: So what's taking so long with fixing this?
  It's been over a year with no progress. If only this was fixed, the app would be perfect. https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud/issues/172
• (2021-09-04, v:1.45.0) Gary Li: Stop repeating certain characters?
  Sometimes I'll have a line that just says ................. ************** ######### I would love an option to ignore that. I don't like hearing dot dot dot dot dot etc...
• (2021-09-01, v:1.45.0) Sumeet Bandary: pitch is being reset
  Every time I close the browser the pitch is being reset to its default value. I want it to remember to what i a have set it to.
• (2021-08-31, v:1.45.0) TAKANORI HIBINO: play books turning page direction
  Thank you for providing good app. i propose we can select the turning page direction when we read ' play books'. because for some books progression direction is opposite.
• (2021-08-22, v:1.45.0) Amanda Harding: Needing help to read an etextbook
  Will not read the text. Window box will pop up for just a moment and disappear
• (2021-08-21, v:1.45.0) Jason Lui: unable to use readaloud with EPUBreader anymore
  I've tried removing and reinstalling both EPUBReader and Read Aloud to no avail. When I click the Read Aloud extention it says "Failed to get EPUB document info" above the play button. I've tried with multiple epub books and none of them work. Any solution?
• (2021-08-20, v:1.45.0) Claudio Benjamin Osorio: Read Aloud stops reading at random
  I've been using your app on and off for a few months now and after I setup google wavenet free quota voices everything was fine. Now it randomly stops reading mid-phrase not too long after it starts reading. I have managed to consistently have it WORK if I leave the extension open (visible) by selecting text and clicking the icon on the top right... It works fine this way. However when I select text on a website and right click play the audio it cuts off after a few seconds. It gives me this feeling as if the extension went to sleep or had its power cut. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
• (2021-08-19, v:1.45.0) Anghely Mamani Salas: The extension does not work
  Hello, but yesterday I installed it and it was going very well but today when I opened it it does not work, it does not read the text that I select and I installed it again and I do not know what happens with the extension.
• (2021-08-18, v:1.45.0) Gina Marie Hoff: doesn't work on LUOA
  This extension doesn't work with Liberty University Online Academy which is who recommended you... can you help please? Thanks! [email protected]
• (2021-08-14, v:1.45.0) rick baird: Right click speaker menu option has disappeared
  Hi. love your ap, but just tonight I rebooted and the right-click menu option to read selected text stopped working. it still works if you press the shortcut keys on most text, but things like twitter embeds or disqus comments do not work with the shortcut keys. they never did - you had to select the text and right-click and select the speaker. I am legally blind, but I can see well enough to see the text I need to highlight and right-click, so this is very important to me. thanks for your attention.
• (2021-08-13, v:1.45.0) Marissa Marsala: Read Aloud No Lounger Works
  This extension has been outstanding but in the last few days is silent. I tried changing the default to Google English and then deleted and added it again. It will not read.
• (2021-08-13, v:1.44.0) Nguyễn Phương Linh: Hi
  There is a notification written that i need to grant additional permissions to continue using. I clicked on 'permissions' which lead to https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/#put-text-to-speech-into-action . They tell me to click in 'speak-it' button and tick the 'I-am-not-a-robot' box, i did it and the web said i now may close the tab but it's still not working. I tried to reload the page but doesn't seem to work.
• (2021-08-12, v:1.44.0) Álvaro López Naranjo: Invertir colores
  ¿Es posible cambiar el panel de lectura fondo negro letras blancas?
• (2021-08-12, v:1.44.0) TAKANORI HIBINO: Only Japanese books error ?
  When I try to read Japanese books in "play books",the error "getBoundingClientRect"of undefined' occurred. But,In case select the words or read English books , it works properly.
• (2021-08-12, v:1.44.0) Niyas Musthafa: Please add Rewind button as mentioned below
  One suggestion: Please allow Repeat button in the options which will repeat the same paragraph until we press Forward/Rewind button I read a lot in web sites and this tool is awesome! Even offline pdf are able to read by uploading to https://assets.lsdsoftware.com/read-aloud/page-scripts/pdf-upload.html I've bookmarked this link in my chrome new tab.
• (2021-08-09, v:1.44.0) Isa T: PDF
  Hola, la extensión no me funciona en archivos PDF
• (2021-08-09, v:1.44.0) Elisa Laatu: abruptly stops at random times
  For some reason this extension has begun to abruptly stop at random times, often after reading out loud for like 10-60 seconds. It just completely shuts down in the middle of reading. This has been happening for about a month or two.
• (2021-08-09, v:1.44.0) Antonio Júnior: PROBLEMA RESOLVIDO LEITURAS EM PDF
  Galera resolvir o problema de leitura com o PDF utilizando o CCLEANER https://www.ccleaner.com/pt-br/ccleaner/builds ele irá atualizar e limpar o seu navegador. Espero ter ajudado.
• (2021-08-04, v:1.44.0) German Moreno: pauses after every sentence
  I am having the same problem that wasn't there before..........long pauses.........before continuing.........otherwise great.
• (2021-08-02, v:1.44.0) R. B.R.: reduce pauses option
  is there a way to reduce or remove the pauses between sentences and paragraphs?
• (2021-08-01, v:1.44.0) Asad Ali: Add a highlight feature on the main page.
  First of all I would like to thank you! Been using it for few months now and God I can read now! I always have difficulty reading long texts which was effecting my learning. Thank you!! Left a 5 start review as well :D I would like to request the developer if there is anyway to add a feature that the extension show where it is reading by highlighting the sentence on the page (not on the pop up it currently uses)
• (2021-07-31, v:1.44.0) Waly 007: Having problem with Kindle cloud reader
  It doesn't seem to work. When I click on it and then click on play icon it just keeps buffering while it continues to change the pages in the Kindle app book. Which is weird. It seems like it is trying to get the data from the Kindle book but at the end just fails or just keeps buffering. The book I am trying to read is like 300 pages.
• (2021-07-29, v:1.44.0) Myriel Bienvenu: SAPI5 Voices no longer supported?
  I used to use my favorite SAPI5 voice (Cereproc Jack) but it no longer appears in the dropdown. I am still able to use the voice generally in windows (like through Windows Narrator), but it does not show in the dropdown. I am using windows 10.
• (2021-07-28, v:1.43.0) 寇古: 右键不能用了
  原来使用的时候，右键选中文本会出现喇叭标志可以点读，今天右键后标志没了，很不方便啊。
• (2021-07-27, v:1.43.0) Sean Zabriskie: Can no longer upload PDF files
  Was working the last week and a half. Today I can no longer upload PDF files. I have tried multiple files, ones that previously worked, and reinstalled the extension. The PDF upload window never pops up to upload.
• (2021-07-21, v:1.42.0) Caitlin M: Not reading my notes in google docs
  I have been copying notes for my schooling in google docs and highlighting bolding (etc) and having this extension read it back to me to help me study but lately it just refuses to read any google docs. It will read most other websites just fine. It was working fine just a few days ago and now I can't seem to get it to work (I have uninstalled and reinstalled, I have restarted my computer, I have deleted cookies and just about everything else I can think of that usually fixes any issues I have)
• (2021-07-21, v:1.42.0) Josh Gatlin: No sound in google docs.
  I hear nothing.
• (2021-07-21, v:1.42.0) Ростислав Запорожець: Весь текст
  Нажаль, додаток не захоплює весь текст, щоб прочитати, трішки залишається поза увагою. Й доводиться додатково виділяти текст, щоб він його побачив
• (2021-07-21, v:1.42.0) Cynthea Bogel: Where is the icon in Google docs?
  I installed Read Aloud but see no icon...
• (2021-07-19, v:1.42.0) Chen Brady: record the voice as an audio material
  Hello May I record the voice (as an audio material) and edit it into the vedio? The vedio will not be used for commercial, it will post on Youtube and other SNS for opening, free for everyone to watch it (vedio just made for fun / personal project). *Sorry I am not a English user, this question uses Google translation.
• (2021-07-10, v:1.42.0) TAKANORI HIBINO: The problem using Play books
  When using "Play books", Read aloud stop end of page without turning to page.
• (2021-07-08, v:1.42.0) Robbie Teacher: Google Play Books (Macbook)
  It used to read and turn the pages automatically. However, now it doesn't. How can I get it back to flipping pages for me? Thanks!
• (2021-07-08, v:1.42.0) Akiraikonics !!: Microsoft Mia online Natural Voice - English
  I noticed that none of these voices are working any more They were all in my dropdown list. Is there a way of fixing this? I'm not even sure how the online voices work but would love to know how to get this up and running
• (2021-07-07, v:1.42.0) AS READING ROOM & LIBRARY: how to download it for later use for public
  we want to make audio books for our reader in various language
• (2021-06-30, v:1.42.0) Orangetheory Fitness: It keeps reading same thing
  A can not clear the text from the box. It keeps reading same thing over and over. It will not allow me to read anything new. I removed extension and re-installed.
• (2021-06-29, v:1.42.0) Patrick McGuinness: Ivona Voices No Longer Listed in Read Aloud. Why?
  Hello, I have Ivona Voice (Salli) installed on my computer and I had used this previously with Read Aloud. However, I went to use it today and it is no longer listed as a voice option in the option menu. I uninstalled and reinstalled the extension, but the issue persists. Have you removed this from updated revisions of the browser extension? Since I purchased and own the voice pack, how can I get it back into Read Aloud?
• (2021-06-23, v:1.42.0) Syd: Reading error.
  Sometimes the voice takes "no" and reads it as "north west". The following sentence is one example: "I believe it is just a maintained version of Halo 2 Vista but the campaign has no changes whatsoever from the original release. I wonder what others think of it."
• (2021-06-21, v:1.42.0) Patricia Shell: Read Aloud stopped working on Google Chrome with Kindle Book - WHY?
  when i click on READ ALOUD it just endlessly circles and decides to go from page to page producing no speech. [email protected]
• (2021-06-21, v:1.42.0) undead282: why is this happening Id ovuw vft lmqu lozureov, ovuw jmpit vfsu foofhcut qu gw rmj, gpo ovuw tat rmo when I copy
  so I copy a text and this happening to, help me plz.