

If you wish to contribute bug fixes or translations, please visit the GitHub page at. 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 option to activate Read Aloud via the context menu. You may also 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. To use Read Aloud, navigate to the web page you want to read, then click the Read Aloud icon on the Chrome menu.

Read Aloud is intended for users who prefer to listen to content instead of reading, those with dyslexia or other learning disabilities, and children learning to read. Read Aloud can read PDF, Google Docs, Google Play books, Amazon Kindle, and EPUB (via the excellent EPUBReader extension from ). Some of the cloud-based voices may require additional in-app purchase to enable. Although the process to transcribe in Google Docs is free, it can take a lot of your time (which may end up being more expensive in the end). 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. Other ways to use Google Docs speech-to-text: Write more quickly Take notes from a meeting Create a script for a speech Easy and accurate audio/video transcripts with spf.io. It works on a variety of websites, including news sites, blogs, fan fiction, publications, textbooks, school and class websites, and online university course materials. I have to admit that it is pretty cool to watch. Once finished your text will appear in the document. Find your document and open it, then simply click the microphone button available on most mobile keyboards and begin speaking. Select the microphone icon and the colour of the microphone will change to red (if it. Read Aloud uses text-to-speech (TTS) technology to convert webpage text to audio. Either visit Google Drive through a web browser or the mobile app and sign in. Select Voice Typing, and a microphone icon will appear on the screen. Read aloud the current web-page article with one click, using text to speech (TTS).
