TTS Reader - Reads text aloud

Turn text into speech for hands-free listening on-the-go.

8.9.183 Version
3.4 Score
934K+ Downloads
Free License
3+ Content Rating

PROS

This extension is incredibly user-friendly, making it easy to listen to articles, documents, and web pages with just a clickTTSReader supports multiple languages and voices, allowing for a customized listening experience that suits your preferences. The speech generated is clear and natural, enhancing comprehension and accessibility, especially for those who prefer auditory learning or have visual impairments. Whether you're multitasking or just want to give your eyes a rest, TTSReader is a fantastic, practical addition to your Chrome toolkit.

CONS

sometimes stops mid-sentence

TTS Reader is a versatile tool that combines various functionalities such as Book Reader, TTS Reader, Text To Speech Reader, Out Loud Reader, and Voice Reader. It offers the ability to read aloud any book format using the preferred TTS engine including EPUB, MOBI, TXT, FB2, PDF, DJVU, RTF, AZW, HTML, RTF, ODT, and web pages.

The TTSReader chrome extension has a set features and functionality that allow you to control and customize your listening experience.

• Choose a language & voice from a list.

• Control and vary reading speeds

• Play, pause, skip back and forward

• Hear text via selection and use of the right click menu

• Listen and continue browsing on other sites.

Uses of the TTSreader extenstion:

• While working, listen to interesting articles and books

• TTSReader allows for listening to written content while doing something else.

• Suitable for kids education

• Aid for people with difficulties in reading

Key Features:

- Advanced TTS (Text To Speech) Functionality

- User-friendly playback control panel

- Notifications on status bar and lock screen with playback controls

- Background listening with screen-off capability

- Customizable selection of Text To Speech (TTS) engine

- Adjust speed, pitch, and volume

- Option to skip unwanted symbols

- Resume reading from the last punctuation mark

- Expressive pauses at punctuation marks with adjustable duration

- Remote bookmarks via headset button

- Start reading by double-tapping any page

- Compatibility and control with Bluetooth headsets

- Save books to WAV files

- Share web pages for TTS reading

- Timer feature to stop reading at a specific time

- Support for @Voice RegEx .txt files

- Text to Voice

- Comprehensive Book Reader functionality

- Library building with EPUB, FB2, PDF, etc. documents

- Filtered book search by title, author, series, genre, etc.

- Sorting options for book displays

- Internal file manager

- Recent and Favorite document lists

- Note-taking and page bookmarking for all book formats

- Customize fonts for text, titles, italics, etc.

- Access to local and online dictionaries

- Multi-word search and bookmarking capabilities

- Support for opening zip-archived books such as epub, fb2, mobi, pdf

- Desktop widget

- E-book to mp3 conversion function

TTS Reader provides a highly customizable and powerful reading experience akin to applications like Librera Book Reader Professional, Balabolka, and @Voice Aloud Reader, Text to Voice.