WebOutLoud - Text to Speech Web Reader
Listen to the web using text to speech. Perfect for dyslexia, low vision, students, researchers, kids, learning to read.
- Users:
- 3,000+
- Version:
- 2025.2.19.1 (Last updated: 2025-02-21)
- Creation date:
- 2020-05-08
- Permissions:
- storage
- activeTab
- contextMenus
- Host permissions:
- https://weboutloud.io/
- https://wol.io.dev.weboutloud.io/
- Size:
- 652.29K
- Email:
- co*****@weboutloud.io
- URLs:
- Website ,Privacy policy
- Full description:
- See detailed description
- Source:
- Chrome Web Store
- Updated:
- a day ago
Manifest V3
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Pros
- Works well with various types of content (emails, newsletters, PDFs, web pages)
- Highlighting words as they are read helps maintain focus
- Ability to skip sections while reading
- Natural sounding voice (in some reviews)
- Responsive developer support
Cons
- Requires registration and sign-up before use
- Forces users to download an iPhone app for full functionality
- Some voices sound unnatural or have mispronunciations
- Issues with reading text containing many links
- Limited options for language and voice selection
Most mentioned
- Need for sign-up and requiring the iPhone app
- Inconsistent voice quality and mispronunciations
- Utility for reading various types of content
- Highlighting feature to aid comprehension
- Developer responsiveness to user feedback
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. User
reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
User reviews
Just Perfect! Controls are easy to use, and the reader is the most accurate that I've found. Its rating should be far higher based on my evaluation of comparable extensions. Well done. Thank you!!!
by 
George Knaggs, 2025-04-10
George Knaggs, 2025-04-10trash , didn't even work.
by 
Manish Gupta, 2025-02-23
Manish Gupta, 2025-02-23No sirve
by 
Luciana, 2025-02-03
Luciana, 2025-02-03Extension safety
Risk impact
WebOutLoud - Text to Speech Web Reader requires very minimum permissions.
Risk impact analysis details
- High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
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Risk likelihood
WebOutLoud - Text to Speech Web Reader has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
Risk likelihood analysis details
- High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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