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Read Aloud

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ReadAloud is a very powerful text-to-speech app which can read aloud web pages, news, documents, e-books or your own custom contents.

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  • FreeProprietary

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Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Windows
  • Xbox
4.3 / 5 Avg rating (3)
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  1.  Text to Speech

 Tags

  • tts-reader
  • pdf
  • docx
  • txt
  • EPUB

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Read Aloud information

  • Developed by

    US flagOptimilia Studios
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3
  • Alternatives

    76 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Read Aloud, and it has gotten 7 likes

Read Aloud was added to AlternativeTo by boniaditya on Feb 19, 2018 and this page was last updated Sep 5, 2022.

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Top Positive Comment
aclap
Feb 20, 2018
-1

Hands down this is the best TTS app in the Windows Store. Does beautifully what it claims.

cmfilter
May 2, 2020
1

This program does what is says for the most part. Import a file, or copy text from a webpage and you **can **have it read to you. But only in Microsoft voices.

The "clipboard monitor" is a good feature, and asks you if you'd like the copied text read now, or ignored. If you copy a URL, ReadAloud opens the webpage, copies the text from it, then starts reading the text.

There is a question that asks "How do I add more voices", but when clicked it goes to a webpage that explains how to change the **language **in WIn 10. I don't want to change the language, all I want to do is use a better-sounding voice that I bought elsewhere.

There's lots of space at the top to add tabs, but you need to go into settings for stuff that could easily be on that top bar instead. I went into overlay mode - which actually reduces the program page size to a small moveable window - and the title overlayed the top line of the text. The title vanishes after a few seconds, but I was surprised at that. Why not have the program page clear, by putting the title bar outside the page? The moveable window is also "always on top", which is - I'm guessing -why it's called an overlay.

The program is fairly straightforward to use, but it feels dated, and is less helpful than it might be. For example, hovering over icons does not produce a tooltip to tell you what the icon is for. If you click on the little triple bar on the top left, the icon names become revealed to the right of the icons. Click on the triple line bar to the top right (yes there's one there too!) and the recycling bin toggles on and off...why?

To add to the confusion, ReadAloud comes from the Microsoft Store, but there is also an add-on (which I haven't tested yet) called "Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader" by Hai Phan. That one states it allows additional voices, for a premium.

boniaditya
Feb 19, 2018
-1

Because it is easy to use, looks very simple, can read PDF EPUB TXT and DOCX formats and it works well on windows.

What is Read Aloud?

ReadAloud is a very powerful text-to-speech app which can read aloud web pages, news, documents, e-books or your own custom contents. ReadAloud can help with your busy life by reading aloud your articles while you continue with your other tasks. This app can be of great help to students with their reading assignments and also improve their reading speed. For visually impaired people this app can be of great assistance.

Some of the prominent features of the app are - • Simple, clean and intuitive interface. • Intelligently extracts readable contents from web pages. • Supports EPUB, PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT file formats. • Clipboard monitor for easy content sharing. • In-app dictionary support. • Direct sharing ability from other apps, like Edge browser. • Sentence highlighting with auto scrolling. • Customizable font style and size in the Reader. • Customizable color scheme with ability to create custom color scheme. • Control rate, pitch and volume of the speech. • Pronunciation editor for correcting the pronunciation of certain words. • Change settings on the fly without leaving the reader. • Multi language support.

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