Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
What is Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader?
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Add-on summary
Read aloud the current web-page article with one click, using text to speech (TTS). Supports 40+ languages.
Read Aloud uses text-to-speech (TTS) technology to convert webpage text to audio. It works on a variety of websites, including news sites, blogs, fan fiction, publications, textbooks, school and class websites, and online university course materials.
Read Aloud allows you to select from a variety of text-to-speech voices, including those provided natively by the browser, as well as by text-to-speech cloud service providers such as Google Wavenet, Amazon Polly, IBM Watson, and Microsoft. Some of the cloud-based voices may require additional in-app purchase to enable.
Read Aloud can read PDF, Google Docs, Google Play books, Amazon Kindle, and EPUB (via the excellent EPUBReader extension from epubread.com).
Read Aloud is intended for users who prefer to listen to content instead of reading, people with dyslexia or other learning disabilities, and children learning to read.
To use Read Aloud, simply navigate to the web page you want to read, then click the Read Aloud icon on the browser menu. In addition, the shortcut keys ALT-P, ALT-O, ALT-Comma, and ALT-Period can be used to Play/Pause, Stop, Rewind, and Forward, respectively. You may select the text you want to read before activating the extension. Right clicking on the selected text will provide you with yet another context-menu option to activate Read Aloud.
To change the voice, reading speed, pitch, or enable text highlighting, go to the Options page either by right clicking on the Read Aloud icon and choose Options, or by clicking the Gear button on the extension popup (you'll need to stop playback to see the Gear button).
Read Aloud is an open-source project. If you wish to contribute bug fixes or translations, please visit the GitHub page at https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud
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spammy, or outdated.- Good selection of voices and speeds.
- Effectively improves productivity for reading and studying.
- Easy to use and has been a favorite for years.
- Sounds realistic after recent updates.
- Frequent crashes require disabling and reenabling the extension.
- Cannot read certain formats like superscripts or formulas effectively.
- Issues changing reading speed without stopping the speech.
- Interface issues with shortcut keys on Edge.
- Crashes frequently needing a restart of the extension or browser.
- Good voice selection and functionality.
- Problems with reading certain text formats.
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Add-on safety
Risk impact
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.