Compare Chrome extensions: Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader vs Nimbus Screenshot & Screen Video Recorder

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User count 5,000,000+ 1,000,000+
Average rating 4.23 4.61
Rating count 2,928 17,196
Last updated 2024-03-24 2024-03-22
Size 451.58K 25.76M
Version 2.9.0 9.93.997.9989
Short description
Read aloud the current web-page article with one click, using text to speech (TTS). Supports 40+ languages. Screen Capture FULL Web page or any part. Edit screenshots. Record screencasts - record video from your screen.
Full summary

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, those with dyslexia or other learning disabilities, and children learning to read.

To use Read Aloud, navigate to the web page you want to read, then click the Read Aloud icon on the Chrome 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. You may also select the text you want to read before activating the extension. Right clicking on the selected text will provide you with yet another option to activate Read Aloud via the context menu.

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.

★ Used by Several Million users on different platforms ★

✔ Screen capture whole or partial screenshots on any size of screen. ✔ Annotate and edit screenshots in our powerful image editor. ✔ Record video from your screen and webcam using the video recorder. ✔ Record step-by-step guides and tutorials. ✔ Trim and Crop. ✔ Use our editor features such as background color change, color change text, etc. to make your simple images and captures more colorful and memorable. ✔ Convert video to gif and mp4 in our video recorder. ✔ Quickly Upload and Share online screenshots and screencasts using the capture tool.

📷 Capture screenshots

▸ Make a full page screenshot or a specific section of the page through scrolling screenshot using our screenshot software (screenshot capture). ▸ Supports scrolling when capturing from web pages.

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