Text Reader

Webpages reader

What is Text Reader?

'Text Reader' is a Chrome extension that reads aloud selected text from webpages you visit. It features an editing window for custom text input, file uploads, or voice typing. Recent updates include a switch to Manifest V3, bug fixes, a variety of voice options, and enhanced speech controls for smoother user experience. Always free, 'Text Reader' is designed to assist you in reaching your goals and improving productivity effortlessly.

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By: my*****@gmail.com

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Users: 8,000+

Rating: 3.10 (29)

Version: 1.22 (Last updated: 2024-08-25)

Creation date: 2019-03-09

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

contextMenus
tabs
activeTab
tts
storage
scripting

Size: 396.29K

Email: my*****@gmail.com

URLs: Privacy policy

Ranking

# 11633 ▼ 91

Other rankings

#4205 in Accessibility #12 in reader keyword 89 ▼ 1 #180 in text to speech keyword 70 ▼ 9 #241 in problem keyword 3 ▼ 25

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Extension summary

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'Text Reader' is a chrome extension that Reads for you, texts you select from websites you visit. It also have an editing window where you can type your own words/sentences to be read out loud or even upload a text document to the window or use your mic to type.

New updates : I apologize for the inconvenience! Manifest V2 was no longer supported and we didn't update the extension to Manifest V3 and it caused problem with the extension. We now have updated the extension and removed old codes that was causing problems.

Please Let us know if anything isn't working good as it should.

previous < performance bug fixes and added :

List of voices to choose from Word or sentence selection on windows Mode Speech controller to speak desired sentence by using using your keyboard arrows and space

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Accomplishes basic reading tasks.
Helpful for certain users.
Easy to use with right-click functionality.

Cons

Does not work well with PDFs or multi-column formats.
Issues with voice quality and robot-like sound.
Inconsistent performance across different websites and files.
Contains many broken or non-functional buttons.
Frequently fails to highlight or read selected text.

Most mentioned

Poor quality and functionality.
Inability to handle specific formats (like PDFs).
Robotic voice quality.
Issues with reading online texts and textbooks.
User frustration with the extension not performing as expected.

Recent reviews

poor quality, a lot of the buttons don't actually do anything and they reader is quite slow without a function button to speed it up. There are better screen readers that will be better with less hassle.

Trevor L, 2022-10-10

It accomplishes what you need it to. However, there's several issue. My biggest one was the fact that if you copy and paste a PDF article, which is split into two columns, it'll read that split as a space - So, the reader will pause after that break - even though it maybe halfway through the sentence. Wish this could have been worked into the code so this doesn't happen. So, it makes reading Medical Journals and Articles pretty much unbearable. Also, the voices are not that well a.i. optimized. It'll still sound like a robot, regardless of how much you change the pitch and speed, and voice. Overall, it's ok because it actually does what it claims. HOW WELL it does it is why I took off the 2 stars.