Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader

It works. 👍🏼

Pretty good.. I set it to a different male voice on my pc .. not bad.. I didn't want to read this doc. had to fiddle with the speed etc.. Thank you !

It sounds so mechanical and no intonation. Messages do not go into my head as it speaks so monotonous.

Feature Request: I love shortcuts and use them dailyyy. Could you add faster/slower to the chrome shortcut options? 🔥 Kind regards, Luke

Very Good.

I was using it but it suddenly stopped working. This happened to both Google accounts. It kept showing "Loading". It is very annoying. Even remove it and then add it again, it's just loading, not working at all

It's very good! In Japanese, Google's standard voice "Daniel" was particularly easy for me to understand. there were some areas where it struggled—like reading URLs or mispronouncing symbols like * or ・. It also had trouble correctly pronouncing proper nouns like "Notion." It would be great if users could manually exclude content they don't want read aloud, or have an option to disable reading of symbols and URLs altogether.

really useful

good

Almost good, no problems

I don't know why.. but it always reads brackets and dots for me. could be better if there was an option to skip reading certain elements.

Not terrible but it skips over paragraphs randomly

Amazing easy to make it work with no fuss! 5/5!

Works great! Just highlight and it reads perfect!!

doesnt work for me? it says "this extensions gallery cannot be scripted"

I'd give 5 stars but it is irritating how the period at the end of "Mrs." is read as the end of the sentence. It doesn't do it with Mr. or with abbreviations such as N. P. so why Mrs.? Otherwise it's fantastic!

Cantonese reading is not so good, kinda slow too, hope will make improvement in the future.

Almost perfect. What would make it better is a natural pause between paragraphs, after bullet points, and cells in tables. Without that natural pause (similar to when there is punctuation), the reader runs text together that don't belong together into one giant sentence. For example, the heading of a section with the first sentence of the section, all the bullet points in a list, or all the cells in a table become one giant sentence. To fix this, treat a new paragraph, the end of a bullet point, or a new cell in a table like punctuation, and pause. A nice to have would be a text highlighter following along with the reader.

Cant get it to work

I've been using this application as a Google Developer Expert for over a year now and still love it from when I was just a civilian 34 years ago! keep up the good work guys nothin but luv! Ninja-man™

Good over all rating from me; very helpful. It is disorienting to listen to this app, however, when there are phrases, which are titles or section headers or other non-sentence language structures because they are currently being read by the narrator as if they were the start to the sentence following them. It would dramatically reduce the stress for humans of constantly decyphering, while the narrator forges onward, the intent of the current reading, if instead there were a 1-second pause after each non-sentence phrase, which is how humans seem to typically read such introductory phrases.

Missing a loto f useful features like speed control and highlight

I it helped me do my I ready

I love this extension, I use it daily. One of my grievances is that when reading out a bulleted list with no periods, the voice makes it seem as though it is all one sentence or one word. Would love to see that fixed.

Always Error: Failed to fetch translations. Wait and try again

Great useful app extension one of the best available

Very useful.

its not reading for me it keeps saying coudnt read text

ultra ugly voices, impossible to hear

Could be a lot better. It is as basic as a TTS extension can get. Either use an ugly popup window, or right click selected text and use the context menu. No faster left-click button options. No shortcut hotkeys. Other extensions show the various blocks of text you can select and left-clicking will automatically select that highlighted block. But on this extension, you have to click and drag your mouse to select an area. It's okay if you just want something basic, but I'm looking for something with more polish and more features.

helpful for school

Very useful extension. If it highlighted the sentence or word being read, it would be perfect.

The voice is in British (posh) English. It is difficult to understand. In short ,Google Read Allowed is useless. It should give a list voices to chooe from.

Works alright for what it is. Has some issues with registering grammar (eg. not recognising when to finish reading dialogue as a sentence, and instead runs into the next one.), as well as skipping one-line sentences that might be offset from the rest of the text. Otherwise, I haven't had any other issues.

No lee

5/5 perfect! JUST PERFECT! I can finaly start digging in my google play books list and soon enough I will have to get new books! Simple... efficient...

Super cool

Best TTS extension. Big thanks to creators.

the offered voices often sound weird, maybe a way to star and pin the ones preferred by user could be useful, also, some internet pages dont allow the use of this extension, and i get it, "policies" or whatever.. but having an alternative to do it anyways would be appreciated, like idk some page to ctrl+c ctrl+v the text i want and still regardless have it read to me, that would be an almost universal solution (and really preferably without any severe limit like text-length)

Excellent extension for reading college textbooks pdfs. Although the speed is capped at x10. If possible, please increase the limit of the speed. Thank you for making this extension!

Stopped working unless I leave it on auto voice select, utter garbage

Powerful, but not lightweight. Access to many free natural voices! Works great.

Horrible! Uses zero recognition of grammar and punctuation. Reads everything (regardless of speed setting) as one long run on sentence, making it impossible to follow or comprehend the material.

I highlight an area, but it starts at the beginning of the Google doc every time - completely useless. It's like it doesn't realize it's only supposed to read the highlighted area.

Love it! This is what I needed for college textbooks. Once again, thank you!

voice is very clear doesn't lag crome on my low end device and actually pronounces words very clearly

This Read Aloud Extension is good not the best. I'm using 1 AI voice on this extension that's worked and sound good. This extension is at least good enough I'll keep using it

yeah. it works. but its not good.

Works as intended.

it's just good