Compare Chrome extensions: Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader vs Google Docs Offline

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Stats	Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader	Google Docs Offline
User count	5,000,000+	N/A
Average rating	4.23	2.43
Rating count	2,945	5,614
Last updated	2024-04-08	2024-04-23
Size	453.63K	90.17K
Version	2.10.0	1.62.0

Short description
Read aloud the current web-page article with one click, using text to speech (TTS). Supports 40+ languages.	Edit, create, and view your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations — all without internet access.
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.	Note: This extension is also used to make advanced copy & paste functionality available in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. No network connection? No problem! With Google Docs Offline, you can access Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive without connecting to the internet. Once installed, simply enable offline access via the settings menu in Google Drive. Alternatively, follow the steps here: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375012 ★ Edit offline in Chrome Launch your Chrome browser and open up your Google Editors without Wi-Fi. Google Docs Offline transforms Chrome into an offline editor. ★ Access your documents anywhere Hundreds of your most relevant documents are automatically made available for offline viewing and editing. ★ Pin important documents Make specific documents available offline by pinning them. Ensure that you can access your most important documents, no matter where you are. See more