Play for Medium AlternativesText to Speech Services and other similar apps like Play for Medium

Play for Medium is described as 'Play is a text-to-speech reader for Medium articles, built as an extension for Google Chrome . Simply install it and when visiting a Medium article, the extension will display a Play button at the bottom of the page along with some other' and is a Text to Speech service. There are four alternatives to Play for Medium for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox apps. The best Play for Medium alternative is Select and Speak. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Talkie or ClipBoard Speaker.

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    Select and Speak

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    Select and Speak uses iSpeech's human-quality text-to-speech (TTS) to read any selected text in the browser. It includes many iSpeech text to speech voices in different languages. You can configure the voice and speed options by changing the settings on the options page.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
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    • Select and Speak is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Play for Medium.

    • Select and Speak is the most popular commercial alternative to Play for Medium.

    • Select and Speak is Paid and ProprietaryPlay for Medium is Free and Proprietary
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    Talkie

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    Free text-to-speech browser extension button. Select text on any web page, and have the computer read it out loud for you by simply clicking the Talkie button.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • Vivaldi Browser
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
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    • Talkie is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Play for Medium.

    • Talkie is Freemium and Open SourcePlay for Medium is Free and Proprietary
  4. ClipBoard Speaker icon

    ClipBoard Speaker

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    New entry is automatically added w/ text copied from apps. New entry is automatically synthesized / spoken. Keep playing entries in listing when Continuous Play is enabled. Highlight spoken words while text is spoken, when option is enabled. etc.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    TTSFox

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    TTSFox is a text-to-speech WebExtension for Firefox that gives you a speech synthesized reading of any text you select.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Firefox
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