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Pericles: Text to Speech Screen Reader

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Description from extension meta

Speech synthesis redesigned. Listen to emails, documents & websites.

Image from store Pericles: Text to Speech Screen Reader
Description from store Whether you're visually impaired, dealing with eye strain, or just want to multitask better, Pericles is your perfect companion. Transform how you consume content – from the latest news to in-depth scientific articles. Dive into a world of audio with our diverse voice range on Mac, and a selection on Windows. And the best part? It's absolutely free! Now you can savor your meals or stay on top of chores, while Pericles narrates your digital world. How to Amplify Your Reading Experience: 🎧 Instant Play: Click on the Pericles icon and hit play. The tool will seamlessly read from the top, adjusting to your scrolling. 🎧 Custom Start: Right-click where you'd like to begin and choose "read from here." Even if Pericles is already narrating, it'll smoothly transition to your chosen spot. 🎧 Selective Reading: Highlight a specific text, right-click, and select "read selection." Pericles will focus solely on your chosen text without continuing further. Embark on an immersive listening journey with Pericles today!

Latest reviews

  • (2023-10-12) Misty D. Hudson: Had the extension downloaded for two hours. In that time, it worked twice. I ensured no other tabs or instances of Chrome were active. Surprisingly, it worked PERFECTLY on their own website. And I don't know who is narrating the video, but Pericles is pronounced peh-ruh-kleez. Not peh-ruh-culls. I mean, you even use a Grecian helmet as your logo. I would imagine you'd pronounce the name of the greatest Athenian politicians correctly. TL;DR -- Only works faithfully on the creator's website. Not worth your time.
  • (2023-08-22) Zaine Noland: Doesn't work at all 0 out of 10
  • (2023-07-05) Evan: Does not work. Got the error below when using it on a normal web page, Something went wrong! Refresh this page and try again or report bug.
  • (2023-06-12) Marcio Maia: Didn't work for me. If crashes when it tries do read Google Docs and nothing happens
  • (2023-06-02) Chyle Akiyama: This extension caused issues with Google Docs on the Brave Browser!
  • (2023-05-24) Maciej: I have tried almost every TTS extension. This is simply the best!!! For me most important is maximum 2.5x speed, none of other extension have higher than 2.0x speed.
  • (2023-05-17) Добрый Дроу Техномаг ПК: Глюк на глюке и глюком погоняет
  • (2023-04-21) Eternally Bored: I absolutely hate this screen reader. It's not moving along from the main header of the pages I use it on. It just keeps repeating the same 3 or 4 lines. Telling it to skip does not make it move along, nothing I try can make it move to the actual body. Saving the pages as a PDF and uploading it makes everything unusable, I can't even read the words on the screen to follow along.
  • (2023-04-18) Yask Shelat: This is great plugin, any plans to add more premium voices in french language?
  • (2023-04-07) Davo Francis: Really great extension, for free. I noticed some unpatient people complaining in the reviews that it doesn't work. It didn't work for me at first either. Make sure the page you want it to read is setup and if it's not working then click on the extension -> click the cog wheel for settings -> click the ... -> reload app and then go to then try again. This worked for me. Nothing to complain about when it's a free extension that is very powerful and probably difficult to code. Thank you developer, you are a star
  • (2023-03-31) Chris Vydas: "Something went wrong! Refresh this page and try again or report bug." Consider this my bug report.... Uninstalling
  • (2023-03-24) Nathan Ruggles: Why would I used a text to speech reader when the overview video voice over doesn't even pronounce the name of your own extension correctly? ("Pear-ih-CULLS"???) If you can't bother with quality control over pronunciation in that why should I expect the screen reader to do a good job?
  • (2023-02-02) Nathan Scherrer: This is the easiest to use, most versatile, and natural sounding free Reader I've found so far. 这是我目前为止发现的最方便使用、拥有最多功能、并且语音自然不生硬的 免费 Reader。
  • (2023-01-13) Desert Tortoise 21: Works like a charm!
  • (2022-12-19) Iliya Fiks: Не работает )))
  • (2022-11-28) Daniel Rogers: Another waste of time - just doesn't work
  • (2022-11-17) Jose E. Martins: Bad job. Using Google TTS voices causes the extension to stop working. I'll give this extension a 0 out of 10. Please fix it now.
  • (2022-09-10) Nyx: Used to be fantastic but recently its been randomly stopping and generally breaking, I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and can't seem to fix it
  • (2022-08-08) Lilly D: Read so many good reviews about this extension. Unfortunately, the extension doesn't work on sites like Wattpad (www.wattpad.com) or Quotev (www.quotev.com). Would have loved to have e-books read to me. :(
  • (2022-06-07) Samantha: Literally only read aloud the words of the Pericles website, not the pdf document I uploaded. Complete joke.
  • (2022-06-02) Ray Boles: honestly best screen reader, i downloaded the other screen reader and it was awful just kept reading the url over and over. i needed to read a pdf book and was able to upload it no problem and loved the english male voice. sounds like i'm reading a harry potter book but its a school text book lol
  • (2022-05-30) Sam Friedman: Great extension, fantastic dev. Upon encountering an issue with the extension, I reported the bug and received a response from the dev the next day. He quickly identified and solved my issue. Extension works great with lots of customization options.
  • (2022-05-24) Tudor Cizmas: I think this extension is one of the best there is. Super easy to use and the developer is always fast at fixing whatever problems arise. Thanks you.
  • (2022-05-23) Tonatiuh Moctezuma: NO SIRVE... Estas extensiones son las que debería eliminar google y no las que realmente funcionan.
  • (2022-05-21) Ritik sharma07: It doesn't work on google play book website https://play.google.com/books edge browser reader working properly please solve this
  • (2022-04-01) Stephen Yavorski: Great reader, but lately has been causing many websites to not function correctly. Drop down menus have started not working, for instance. This is only when I have Pericles installed that this happens. Will change to 5 stars, when this is fixed!
  • (2022-03-17) pleading nut: i liked the older version better and i know alot of people like it this way so i dont want you to change it but can you send me the old code or a way to get the old version
  • (2022-03-08) uchiha tashi: Best Text to Speech Screen Reader EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. LOVED IT. THANKS A LOT FOR MAKING IT FREE.
  • (2022-03-05) Cindy or Don Pitcher: I cannot get this extension to work on my chromebook. When I press play, the extension responds with "Loading" then times out after a minute, then states "something went wrong".
  • (2022-02-28) Libra Moon: hello! I love this extension while I'm confused about how to change the selected voice&language to another country/region. I've changed the user interface language of my system to English and used VPN to download it again but they didn't work. I am a non-native English speaker and want to learn the accent. Thank you!
  • (2022-02-16) ッtia: 👍🏽
  • (2022-02-16) Jack Hack: The easiest to use one.
  • (2022-01-05) Ridwan Sastropawiro: this is what i'm looking for a long long time ago... thanks, developers! :)
  • (2021-12-18) Dejan Ivkovic: only english...
  • (2021-12-13) SayeMarg: I Love It 😍✅
  • (2021-12-13) Lal Lawm Thanga: Awesome! Have been downloading and trying out a bunch of extensions until now and it is exactly what I was looking for with features such as keybinding, highlighting words + auto scroll, plus voice is very standard. However I wish that the highlighted sentence remains in the middle of the screen.
  • (2021-11-30) Mxo Rivera: Just perfect!
  • (2021-10-18) Cristina VÎRTOPEANU: 👍👌
  • (2021-10-04) Alden Ferdon: Easy to use and works really well. I saw in the earlier comments that you might be considering adding some additional highlight colors? My only complaint is the light yellow highlight color can be tricky to see on white backgrounds.
  • (2021-10-04) Cuong Nguyen: Simple and easy to use
  • (2021-07-04) Ahmett: Pc nin yerleşik dil paketini kullanıyor. genel olarak başarılı. Hız ton gibi ayarlar da yeterli seviyede.
  • (2021-06-24) Henrique Geremia Nievinski: the best free TTS solution for Chrome!
  • (2021-05-14) allan schøtt: Easy to use, reads fast haven't encountered any bug so far.
  • (2021-04-24) Esmaeil: I liked it! search among many many Test to Speech extensions, this one works well! PLEASE note you need to change the default voice to one of the google free high-qiality voices to get most of the extension. and the Text Auto-Highlighting feature works quite well! I really like it (the most similar to this one is Natural Reader which is very limited for free version) 5 Stars
  • (2021-04-15) MLVince江彦霖: It is working well and tally and smooth.tqvm.
  • (2021-03-31) Sue Fulton: BEST ONE THATS ACTUALLY FREE!
  • (2021-03-02) Jamie Carnarvon: Reader has better (more authentic) sound voices than most others out there, however, the read skips pages - so not ideal.
  • (2021-02-28) Sagar Vasnani: It's so good that I am starting to think that this is possibly the most underrated extension on the store.
  • (2021-01-30) broken-lycan: I really love this one and would give it five stars. It has the highlighting function directly on the webpage, no copy-pasting, no selecting. And the voices are really good too. But a few days ago after not using it for a while I noticed that it quite often just stops reading mid-sentence. When I go back to make it start over, it always stops at the same place in the sentence and nothing I tried could make it work. If there's a way to fix this I would be really grateful because I'm looking for a different one right now and basically nothing is as good as this one.
  • (2021-01-25) Secheli Alexandru: Hey, great app if you don't have that much time to read. Also, you can plug in your headphones and do something else ( so, yeah great app for multitasking )

Latest issues

  • (2023-04-17, v:2.2.13) Amira Ezz: Pericles page focus on FCC challenges
    Hi! I've been using Pericles to read the freeCodeCamp challenges. On some of the pages were automatically starting at the step number and reading the instructions immediately without going through any unnecessary menus. But, in some other pages the extension starts at the Donate button at the top right corner of the page. So, I contacted FCC about the issue and it turned out that it wasn't an issue with their website. Actually I don't have any idea about how the extension focus works. So, please give this page a visit and try the extension using a desktop chrome browser. I'd appreciate it if you fix this issue. https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/2022/responsive-web-design/learn-basic-css-by-building-a-cafe-menu/step-52
  • (2023-02-11, v:2.2.13) lethargy: Faster reading rate/ speed?
    Hi, is there a way for you to increase the reading speed/ rate? thanks
  • (2023-02-01, v:2.2.13) Frank Louvis: Your extension messes up web sites
    I've had the strangest issue for months. Every time I edit a WordPress site with a WYSIWYG text block editor, this code is always added at the end: <iframe id="_pericles_content_iframe" style="position: absolute; top: -99px; left: 0px; width: 50px; height: 26px; background: transparent; overflow: visible; margin-top: -30px; transition: top 2s ease-in-out 0s; z-index: 2147483647; border: none; padding: 0px;"></iframe> Finally figured out it was this browser extension that has been causing me havoc. Why does it do this?
  • (2022-05-10, v:2.1.7) Adrian Jeffers: Reader won't Load
    Hello! I just downloaded your extension about a half hour ago, and whenever I try to hit play, it says "Something went wrong!" and won't load. I tried reloading the page, reinstalling the extension, and checking my internet connection, but none of that worked. I'm wondering if there's a setting I'm missing, or a permission I need to give the app? In any case, I hope you can help.
  • (2022-04-15, v:2.1.6) hussein et hayat sleiman: the update that you released didn't work
    the update that you released didn't work the problem in14/4l2022 did not work i manually update it and it did not work
  • (2022-02-15, v:2.0.32) Jonathan L: faster
    please?
  • (2022-02-15, v:2.0.32) Sarah Sorathia: suddenly extension not working
    hello suddenly it is no longer working at all it just loads and then nothing is there any trouble shooting?
  • (2022-02-02, v:2.0.32) Alex: Restarting, Not Starting, Hot Keys Not Working
    When I use this extension and pause it, it restarts from the beginning of the book/article and I have to skip through a tons of text. It won't start from where I ask it to when I right click or click. On top of that, even when I do manage to skip through the text to where I left off at, most of the time it doesn't play and will even restart AGAIN too. Its great, if you never have to pause it. It's basically unusable and I'm very frustrated.
  • (2021-09-14, v:2.0.32) Esteban Munch Jones: Pericles skipping some content
    Hi, Pericles is skipping some content that is present on the screen. Are there any attributes I can add to those skipped HTML elements so that they can be read out by Pericles? (if not, what could be a fix for this problem?) Thanks a lot for making this app, Esteban
  • (2021-08-10, v:2.0.32) Genevieve WZ: Reading randomly stops when using Google's voice
    I have tested this several times with the same block of text on a free Project Gutenberg ebook online. I'm on Windows with Google Chrome. When using Microsoft's native voices, there is NO problem. However, the same block of text will encounter random stopping if using Google's voices (for me I was using the UK female voice, but I suspect all of them are affected). I also discovered that this has the exact same problem on at least 2 other TTS extensions - and the voice stops at the EXACT same point in the text using the same voice - which leads me to believe this is a problem with Google, not the extensions. However, there is only 1 extension that this is not a problem on - and the difference with that extension is that they only read aloud 1 short line at a time (at least that's what is highlighted). Whereas your and other extensions that have this stopping problem are highlighting nearly the entire paragraph. So I believe this can be solved if your extension could shorten the chunks of text being processed at one time, just a suggestion :) I'm happy to provide more details if necessary.
  • (2021-07-03, v:2.0.32) Ed Garzaro: Issues when dealing with APIs
    Greetings! First off, I absolutely love your extension. It has changed my life as I have ADHD and struggle to sit there and read through articles. At least now I do not have to worry about getting distracted while reading. I wanted to reach out as I believe I found a bug. I am a coder and work with JS and APIs. Whenever I am reading through a file, one of the characters does not agree with the reader and it causes Chrome to hard quit. It's rather abrupt as I have music playing through Chrome as well. The issue specifically happens when the reader attempts to reach through JSON data.
  • (2021-06-10, v:2.0.32) Katherine Dove Schon: Italian as the US English voice?
    I have US English as the selected voice, but it's being read with a crazy thick Italian accent? Same thing with UK English Male, and Allison (US), Fred (US). Victoria (US) is definitely British. So it seems like all the voices are mislabeled or something? Was doing the same thing a number of days ago, and I've restarted my browser and computer many times since then.
  • (2021-02-14, v:2.0.32) Tia Cross: Randomly stops
    When utilizing the extension it will make it halfway through reading and randomly stops. Anyway to fix this?
  • (2021-01-25, v:2.0.30) Kate: Starting randomly
    I'm using Chrome with multiple tabs open. I'll use Pericles to read something and then it'll be done. Then a time later, several minutes or even 20 minutes, the extension will start to read the same passage again, when I'm no longer in that window or looking at the part I had it read before. Sometimes I'll even no longer have that tab open and it still starts to randomly read what I last had it read and I have to go up to the extension and hit Stop.
  • (2020-12-27, v:2.0.26) solologos: Reading Speed
    Am I missing something? I can't find an option to change the reading speed. Being able to change the reading speed based on the density of content would be greatly beneficial to me. Thank you!
  • (2020-12-27, v:2.0.26) solologos: Reading Speed
    Am I missing something? I can't find a setting for changing the reading speed. If there isn't one, implementing one would be greatly useful for me. Thank you!
  • (2020-12-15, v:2.0.26) Daniel Hester: Expired Certificate
    Just an FYI that your Cert has expired!
  • (2020-11-09, v:2.0.26) Jason Croft: School district utilization
    Good morning, I work with a school district and like what I see with the Pericles text to speech program. Is there a link that can be shared with me that would share the logistics for a school district to utilize this program for our students.
  • (2020-10-10, v:2.0.26) Stan Smith: time
    Apparently the app is set to read for 3 minutes and then stop reading. I assume this is the case since there is a message beside a clock at the top of the controls screen that reads: "3 minutes". How do I turn the time limit off... or at least extend it to as much or as long as possible?
  • (2020-10-08, v:2.0.26) 钱宏: support to 10 times the speed
    I am a Chinese, a Chinese equivalent of a letter, read faster than English, hope to be able to support to 10 times the speed, so that we can adjust to fit their own, the speed is determined by the user's computer configuration, can support to 10 times the speed of my computer
  • (2020-08-27, v:2.0.26) Logan Maupin: Taking an extremely long time to upload large page number count PDFs
    Is there any way to use this program in such a way that I can upload a whole textbook PDF into it and utilize its functions? This app works fantastic for reading things like articles online but I need it to also upload Textbook E-Books (in a PDF format) and unfortunately when I go to upload the PDFs through the extension it takes so long that the app basically freezes. Which makes sense because some of these ebooks are like 2,000 page PDFs. Is there a way we can improve this or at least offer a non-extension, program equivalent that will do this?
  • (2020-08-13, v:2.0.25) Chuck Norris: Pericles not reading alt tags?
    Working on some accessibility testing and stumbled across Pericles. Think you've done a nice job, however I can't seem to get it to read alt tags on images. Is there something I'm missing or is this not a feature?
  • (2020-07-23, v:2.0.25) jaime starfish: how to get it to work
    after downloading it how do you get it to work? where do you find it?
  • (2020-07-17, v:2.0.25) Seppuku Desu: Voices?
    I can't find anywhere that mentions anything about the voice options. Are those who come with it all there is?
  • (2020-07-13, v:2.0.23) David Berman: Hi. I'm developing course material for accessibility in Chrome. Pericles looks very exciting. Can you summarize for me what Pericles offers that is not already in Chromevox? Thanks!
    product comparision question: Hi. I'm developing course material for accessibility in Chrome. Pericles looks very exciting. Can you summarize for me what Pericles offers that is not already in Chromevox? Thanks!
  • (2020-04-16, v:2.0.13) S K: Multiple or single pause while reading a sentence
    I hear a pause half way while reading a long sentence without any comma or other punctuation for 2-3 sec in chrome before finishing the entire sentence. Sometimes there is a pause for 2 sec before completing the last word of the sentence. The screen reader is able to read the same sentence without pause in Firefox. Any reason why it is not the same way in chrome?
  • (2020-04-04, v:2.0.7) Sakis Triantafyllou: Language
    Hello. Good work but why don't have Greek?
  • (2020-03-25, v:2.0.7) Kenny Mohar: chromebooks
    I work for a school district and I've pushed this out to our student accounts from the Google Admin console. In settings, there isn't a suitable English voice available, that I can find. On my MacBook Pro it works well and the Alex English voice is the first option (but not on a chromebook).
  • (2020-03-18, v:2.0.2) Marcus Viar: Speed has been limited
    Before the last update (that included a redo of the look of the extension) I was able to make the speed go very fast. Now the speed is capped to being too slow. Even when I increase the speed to 2, it still reads at the pace that is slower than I read. Are there any plans to allow the increase of speed faster then 2?
  • (2019-08-05, v:1.25.1) Paul Oppelt: Love It! But...
    Super useful extension, use it quite often read back articles while I'm doing other chores and the like. However, I find the pause taken between both the ending of one sentence and the start of the next, as well as the pause taken after a comma and the start of the next clause, to be uncomfortably long and awkward. Is there any way to adjust this parameter, easy or hard?
  • (2019-07-01, v:1.25.0) William Wang: How to add more voice?
    I have more MS voice installed and can be used by narrator etc. I only have 3 options under the dropdown menu. I wonder how we can use more voice either installed locally or elsewhere?
  • (2019-06-02, v:1.25.0) boni aditya: Reading PDF files
    Hi Alexandru Calin, Thank you for the amazing and inspiring work - I have listed your plugin here - https://alternativeto.net/software/pericles-text-to-speech-screen-reader/ I do hope that more people get to use it. But, I have request, can you please allow the plugin to access PDF files and URLs. Right now I am converting the entire pdf into individual webpages and publishing them on blogs to them to be read by your plugin. It would be better if the plugin could read PDFs too. I have also tried to convert the PDFs into MHT and HTML (offline pages) in an attempt to get PERICLES to read them but it did not work either. Please let me know if I can help you with anything. Regards, Boni Aditya.

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Installs
35,695 history
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Rating
4.0153 (131 votes)
Last update / version
2023-08-18 / 2.2.13
Listing languages
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