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Read Aloud: Text to Speech (TTS, Listen to Text)

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Status
  • Extension status: Featured
Description from extension meta

Text to Speech (TTS) reads aloud text, PDFs & e-books with natural voices.

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Read Aloud: Text to Speech (TTS, Listen to Text)
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Create high-quality text-to-speech of web pages and specific articles. Free. No registration. Text to speech - read aloud web-page articles, books, and PDF files. Generated speech can be easily modified (adjust tone, control voice or volume)

TTS for generating voiceover with customizable speech and text overlays. Create a complete webpage TTS narration or select specific sections with an ability to edit, and listen the audio on your PC.

The app runs directly in your browser, saving you time. Simply click the extension icon to choose between all text voice synthesis or a selected section.

You won't strain your eyes reading large text or small fine print. Why waste time when all you need is text to speech?

Our tool combines advanced text-to-speech (TTS) and summarization functionalities to provide a complete solution for both auditory and visual content consumption.

Want to read your text aloud for cases like learning classwork, reading technical documentation, or listening to articles? Here are the reasons to choose TTS Text to Speech:

✔ Text to Speech conversion on multiple languages;
✔ Text to Speech male or female voices;
✔ Customizable voice settings and speed;
✔ Read aloud any webpage or document;
✔ Compatibility with additional file formats such as PDF and eBooks;
✔ Natural-sounding voice generation;
✔ Read offline files using built-in browser text-to-speech;
✔ No login or registration required;
✔ Generate summaries of YouTube videos, PDFs, and web articles.

Open any webpage you want to listen to (or upload any document), then click extension icon, select "Play", and listen as text-to-speech engine reads the selected text, pause, rewind, or fast forward using the on-screen controls that appear once TTS starts reading.

Notes

Reload page after installing extension before using text-to-speech (Chrome loads extension on every page).

Text to Speech TTS extension is free and easy to use. If you find it helpful, please give us 5 stars!

Latest reviews

Anonymous
very good and easy to use
Anonymous
I have been using this extension for a little over a week and it has been great so far, with a few hiccups. One positive is that this thing just works. I have used quite a few text-to-speech applications in the past and this one is definitely near the top. The UI is easy to use, the speech can be customized to a degree, and the price-point is just right. It's not all great though ... the constant pausing is super annoying, I cannot get through a single page of content without it pausing and telling me to upgrade to premium for a pause-free experience. I know you have to advertise your product, and I respect it, I wish there was a balance that benefited both parties, the consumer and developer. Secondly, a lot of the voices are just unusable. They sound absolutely terrible an robotic, you have to spend some time going through nearly all of the voices to bookmark the ones you like or can at least tolerate. The last thing I would mention, is that I wish that I could customize the speech pattern a little more. There are times when the voice doesn't pause when it is supposed to like after a colon, an example of this is like when there is a term that is being defined, it usually has a format like, Dog: A four legged creature, instead of pausing for a beat after Dog, it just reads it like one sentence. Some voices deal with this better than others. All in all a great product and I will be recommending it to everyone I know who's looking for something like this.
Anonymous
for free tts its well worth dl
Anonymous
This is very helpful to me, I use it to read my books as I game. I use Goole US English 1 Natural and I find it pretty good. I copy and paste the text because I don't trust most software to read anything.
Anonymous
Great web extension, am able to read through a lot of work and understand within short period of time.
Anonymous
Does nothing, id give 0 if i could.
Anonymous
woring for me thank you
Anonymous
This is a very helpful app for when I am grading, essays and need to multitask as a teacher. Thank you so much for making this program, app, or whatever it's called. I love all the variations of voices. The only thing I would improve is to have the clear common voices towards the top of the list. Either way, I am extremely grateful. Awesome app.
Anonymous
reliable, works great
Anonymous
super helpful and great app! I have dyslexia and its really helped me. have not had any problems for the past 5 months :) recommend
Anonymous
Works amazingly well. I only wish it would go faster than 2.0
Anonymous
I love this! I have been looking for an extension that can read my documents and websites for me! Its not great at reading tables yet, but paragraphs and sentences, it got that. I like how you can change the voices and languages on the fly. Nice utility!
Anonymous
Had to change the voice from the default and the change was awesome, simple, and user-friendly. I read a lot, and i have been searching everywhere for this kind to text to speech tool, and its amazing. Thank you to it's developers and to chrome. I am happy to be a user.
Anonymous
The voices are horrible. About as choppy as you would expect for someone reading for the first time. Not to mention it does not see the text in between footer and header.
Anonymous
Best free chrome extension, period! Thank you for all the hard work your team put in!
Anonymous
This is such a useful tool. Thank you so much!!!
Anonymous
Dont even work for German. Takes it directly to the website where you pay it in order to use it. Do they think we are that stupid? Good translate works as fine and there must be more free extension that would be providing this service for free. Dont download it. It is a waste of time
Anonymous
Its alright but the program can't read words separated by a hyphen that do to not fitting on the sentence line.
Anonymous
top,top,top.
Anonymous
Excelent extention to read courses and help studying
Anonymous
GREAT!
Anonymous
I have always relied on read-out-load tools to keep up with my readings while moving away from my computer. This one is by far the most practical and stable I have used!
Anonymous
Very good, I don't have anything to complain.
Anonymous
The default voice was some horror story from a 1990's computer. It couldn't even pronounce English words correctly like "alloy". a LOY? Really? The list of voices was infinite the second voice I heard was worse than the first. I have no idea how there can be so many positive ratings.
Anonymous
Better than more prominent competitors
Anonymous
I just wish they would learn after awhile by different things that we have it do or correct; especially if we correct! Why can't we have it use our own voice by training it? Why not make us \the dictate and read aloud in one ap? They could then definitely learn.
Anonymous
Works very well with the articles I wanted to read aloud. The voices are only American English and a little robotic, and sometimes pronounce words strangely, but very understandable and you stop noticing after a few minutes.
Anonymous
Very good once you get used to the interface.
Anonymous
Very helpful! Robot voice, though...
Anonymous
Good!
Anonymous
Thank you. Great service. Some words that the voice pronounces need to be refined, but everything is good.
Anonymous
Simple and free.
Anonymous
I like having the read aloud feature since I'm mostly using it for school. My only gripe is that the voice doesn't read fast enough to keep my attention, even on the fastest setting. Other than that it's great!
Anonymous
Every time you want to listen to text, this extension opens a new tab, makes you read through a lorem ipsum paragraph, and then requires you to complete a captcha—just to get it working. It's more hassle than it's worth.
Anonymous
Excellent
Anonymous
I'm a college student who struggles reading all day long and this application really helps me stay focused as it reads with me my assignments. It also helps me speed up the process for sure
Anonymous
this extension has helped me so much with my school work.
Anonymous
good app, simple, functions well and easy to use
Anonymous
For things like PDFs it doesn't read, so I have to manually copy the text over which I can do by highlighting and copying, its strange how it works
Anonymous
Excellent, no nonsense and just what I was looking for.
Anonymous
exactly what i was looking for. Voice options are better than I thought they would be!
Anonymous
good
Anonymous
Solid enough, reliable, unobtrusive as well. I'm happy.
Anonymous
Overall a great app, but I wish the voices were better. They have a lot to choose from so it's most likely I haven't found the best one.
Anonymous
its good. some words are skipped. i dont know if its general or just my experience
Anonymous
nice i like
Anonymous
Thank you. It works and has exceeded my expectations. I do wish to see your efforts grow in allowing the user to add notations, and if there is that feature, I apologize for not seeing it sooner.
Anonymous
the worst TTS voice I have tried. Please it is already 2025. A voice even worse than Google Translate is unacceptable.
Anonymous
First day using it and I’m impressed! I’m incorporating it into my health journey — it makes reading research papers and PDFs so much easier while walking on the treadmill at my standing desk. It helps reduce eye strain.
Anonymous
good app