Pericles: Text to Speech Screen Reader

Speech synthesis redesigned. Listen to emails, documents & websites.

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Pericles: Innovative Text to Speech Chrome Extension

Pericles: Text to Speech Screen Reader is a remarkable Chrome extension designed to enhance your content consumption by converting text into speech. Whether you have visual impairments or eye strain, or simply prefer to multitask, Pericles is your go-to digital companion. It allows for instant play, custom start, and selective reading, offering a seamless, immersive listening experience. Experience the effortless transformation of your textual digital world into audio with Pericles.

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Extension stats

By: https://getpericles.com

Users: 30,000+

Rating: 4.01

(132)

Version: 2.2.13 (Last updated: 2023-08-18)

Creation date: 2020-06-18

Permissions:

storage
contextMenus
tts

Size: 474.11K

Email: pe*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 4,801 ▲ 68

Other rankings

#68 in Accessibility ▲ 2

#8 in screenshot reader keyword 61 ▼ 3

#10 in text to speech keyword 68 ▼ 2

#16 in reader keyword 89 ▼ 2

#45 in speech keyword 65 ▼ 10

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Other platforms

Not available on Android

Pericles: Text to Speech Screen Reader (v2.0.32)

2,303+ 3.14

(51)

Pericles: Text to Speech Screen Reader (v2.2.13)

5,758+ 3.20

(12)

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Clean voice output
Fully free without the need to export text
Offers higher reading speeds up to 2.5x
Helpful when it works properly after setup or refreshing pages
Great for those who need a free text-to-speech solution

Cons

Inconsistent performance; works sometimes and not other times
Bugs and issues, particularly on certain websites
Limited voice options and unnatural sounding voices
Could benefit from additional features like a floating button
Some users experience crashes or errors during usage

Most mentioned

Inconsistency in performance and reliability
Need for page refresh to get it to work
Bugs preventing it from functioning properly
Limited and robotic sounding voices
Issues with specific websites, particularly Google Docs and other platforms

User reviews

finally something thats good

Nikhil Yadavalli, 2024-12-24

this is an amazing screen reader, the voice is clean (sometimes can be funky but it's not a big deal), and at first i was frustrated cus it wasn't reading but all i had to do was refresh the page (thanks Влад) this is one of the best that i have ever used and i'm thankful for it!!

Craig Jayson, 2024-12-22

Honestly the best text to speech I've been able to find, it can be buggy at times but compared to other text to speech extensions, its fully free and you don't have to export the text. I exclusively read on chrome just for this extension.

Nxptoons, 2024-10-24

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Pericles: Text to Speech Screen Reader requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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