Compare Chrome extensions: Readme - Text To Speech (TTS) vs Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader

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User count 500,000+ 5,000,000+
Average rating 4.33 4.23
Rating count 2,114 2,928
Last updated 2024-01-08 2024-03-24
Size 1.87M 451.58K
Version 1.1.3 2.9.0
Short description
AI-powered text-to-speechе tool. Voice over for books and PDF files. ChatGPT summarizer for anything. Read aloud the current web-page article with one click, using text to speech (TTS). Supports 40+ languages.
Full summary

Readme TTS is a comprehensive Chrome extension that provides a convenient and innovative solution for text-to-speech technology. With its advanced text-to-speech conversion features, it allows you to listen to articles, blog posts, and other written content with just a click of a button. Say goodbye to boring reading and hello to a more enjoyable and hands-free way to consume information.

Readme integrate Summary function, using ChatGPT an advanced language model trained by OpenAI, that allows you to quickly and easily get a summary of any webpage you visit. With just a click of a button, this extension uses advanced natural language processing algorithms to analyze the content of the page and generate a concise summary of its main points.

Some of its key features include: • Easy text-to-speech conversion. • Support for multiple languages. • Adjustable speaking speed. • Ability to play/pause, skip forward/backward, and adjust volume. • User-friendly interface. • Option to choose a male or female voice for speech output. • Ability to select specific text passages for text to speech conversion. • Support for additional file formats such as PDF and eBooks. • Summary text of any webpage you visit. • Summary function is compatible with various video hosting platforms such as YouTube and Vimeo.

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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.