Read Aloud is an open-source project I created in my spare time to satisfy my own need. 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). Right clicking on the selected text will provide you with yet another context-menu option to activate Read Aloud. You may select the text you want to read before activating the extension. In addition, the shortcut keys ALT-P, ALT-O, ALT-Comma, and ALT-Period can be used to Play/Pause, Stop, Rewind, and Forward, respectively. To use Read Aloud, simply navigate to the web page you want to read, then click the Read Aloud icon on the Chrome menu. Read Aloud allows you to use your own Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services account to enable these voices. Google Wavenet, Amazon Polly voices, for example, use bleeding edge technology to provide life-like synthetic speech that is close to that of human speech. Recent developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence has enabled very high-quality speech synthesis. Some of the cloud-based voices may require additional in-app purchase to enable. 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. Read Aloud is aimed at users who prefer to listen to content instead of reading, people with dyslexia or other learning disabilities, children learning to read, or simply to provide users with alternative way to consume web content. It works on a variety of websites, including news sites, blogs, fan fiction, publications, textbooks, school and class websites, online universities and course materials. Read Aloud is a Chrome and Firefox extension that uses text-to-speech technology to convert webpage text to audio.

Starting in version 1.4.6, you can use your Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account to enable Amazon Polly and Google Wavenet voices. Supports EPUB (via the excellent EPUBReader extension from ). You can also set the pitch of the voice and the reading speed. You can choose from many available male and female voices. Tired of sitting, tired of reading? Click a button, jump on your bed, and have the article read aloud to you. Read out loud the current web-page article with one click.

Turn text into lifelike speech! Read aloud the content of any web page, pdf & ebook with a natural-sounding voice.

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