Reviews of Pericles: Text to Speech Screen Reader

List of user reviews and ratings for Pericles: Text to Speech Screen Reader

Total ratings

3.20 (Rating count: 12)

Review summary

Users appreciate the many natural voice options, good multilingual accuracy, and control over speech playback. It works well on simple text modules and is considered better than some paid alternatives. However, it frequently has issues with PDF uploads, experiences syncing and navigation problems during reading, and struggles with specific sites like Kindle Cloud Reader. Highlighted selections may not be read properly, and the app sometimes interrupts sentences by reading out page numbers and headers, limiting its usefulness for academic or complex reading.
Pros
  • Wide variety of natural-sounding voice options.
  • Good accuracy with multiple languages like French and Spanish.
  • Provides good control over readback settings.
  • Generally smooth reading experience on text-only modules.
  • Free and better accuracy compared to some paid apps.
Cons
  • Struggles with uploading and reading PDFs consistently.
  • Reading gets out of sync and jumps around on the page.
  • Does not work well with Kindle Cloud Reader and some web content.
  • Reads page numbers and headers interrupting sentences.
  • Highlighted text is sometimes not read correctly or starts reading from elsewhere.
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User reviews

Recent rating average: 2.90
All time rating average: 3.20
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Date Author Rating Comment
2023-12-15 Karen Loads of voice options; all that I tried sounded natural. Read smoothly and got me through a text-only module. I've not tried uploading anything as there are more than enough voice options for me.
2022-09-21 Wilkes, works just okay when it works. won't let me upload most pdfs (no idea what makes some work and others not) and interrupts sentences to read page numbers and headers. As a student I would absolutely not recommend this for academic reading.
2022-02-22 Anthony Will quickly get out of sync and jumps all over the page. This app does not work as intended.
2022-01-26 Danko I wanted something to read my kindle books from the kindle cloud reader, and this is not it. Doesn't work with kindle cloud reader 2022
2021-08-19 Sasha I went to the website and it just gives me an error when I press play. Nothing happens. Removing.
2021-05-22 daniel.gonzalez@apolloresearch.ca I heve used many appls like this one, and deffinetley this is the best one so far, very good with 3rd languages like French and Spanish. Its much more accurate than even paid versions, this one if for free! thanks! keep developing!
2021-04-24 Cubanitto The extension does not read what is highlighted on the web site. After I click on the "Read from here" menu option the extension reads text from somewhere else on the web site.
2021-04-07 A Can you please please make highlight words more than just sentence? I beg you!
2020-09-01 Bonnitto Since making the jump from Chrome to Edge I have found this to be the best text to speech app. Lot's of control over the readback.
2020-08-25 matei.bogdan@ezugi.com Extension works really good and I can clearly see that there was a lot of passion put on its development. All my respect and apperceptions sent to the developer who made my life easier with this wonderful extension.
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