2024.11.29.1

weboutloud.io

Listen to the web using text to speech. Perfect for dyslexia, low vision, students, researchers, kids, learning to read.

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2024.11.29.1

Update

November 30, 2024

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637KiB

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weboutloud.io

WebOutLoud - Text to Speech Web Reader Extension

Listen to the web using text to speech to assist with comprehension--to give your eyes a break.

New in 2024 - AI-Powered website summaries (otherwise known as TLDR). This feature allows you to generate a concise summary of any webpage with a click.

WebOutLoud reads websites out loud using the free voices that are already available in your web browser with the option to upgrade your experience to include Premium voices. No text selection is required. It will automatically continue reading paragraph after paragraph. Not only that, it will highlight words as it reads them and remember where you left off.

Give your eyes a break! Just navigate to any web page and hit play. WebOutLoud will read web pages using text to speech.

* It reads pretty much any webpage you can throw at it.
* Highlights words and paragraphs as it reads.
* Summarize websites with AI (requires premium subscription).
* Tell the app where to begin reading using Touch Assist, or enable the powerful Reader Mode to isolate readable content automatically.
* Dozens of voices to choose from (selection of free voices is dependent on operating system and extensions.)

The WebOutLoud browser extension for Chrome is free to use with the voices that are built-in to your browser. Premium voices and the AI website summary feature require a premium subscription.

A premium subscription also gives you access to all features of WebOutLoud's iOS and Mac apps and the browser extension for Safari (available on both desktop and mobile).

Source Manifest.json

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User reviews

Kousar Abbas (ID: 000000415a27ebd9) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 06/04/2023 need improvements

Perks Joanna (ID: 0000005a1ac3f939) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 04/25/2023 I use this quite a bit, and the app too. Works well with emails and newsletters via a web browser as well as web pages and pdfs. There are a few mispronunciations—some of which are entertaining (viz "Goldman Satches")—but not enough to disrupt the flow.

hussein et hayat sleiman (ID: 0000007f1fc7ebde) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 01/19/2023 if this had more English voices for free and short cut keys i would have gotten a 5/5

Tad Doerr VanderVoort Jr. (ID: 000000c5fb034102) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 09/15/2022 It sounds, very, unnatural making, it almost worth dash, less at, times. the speech, is so, broken that, I, would, rather, read, it, all to, myself. Exhausting to, try to listen, to every, time. IS THERE ANY HOPE here? seems like it makes a run of words together here and there - but it is so bad I've got to keep looking for a product that works well enough to use. I have epub readers that I use - but I have to use downloaded epub files. I want a web reader for protected files (one users can't download without hacks). Please Let me know if I'm doing something wrong or need to pay for the service to fix this.

Sara Penberthy (ID: 000000e9b324e459) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 09/05/2022 Absolutely worthless. Cant even get the app to turn on, much less actually read something.

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WebOutLoud - Text to Speech Web Reader