Voice Out: Text to Speech Voice Reader

Stopped working. Uninstalling.

doesnt work

worst app initially says free later after install without pay not working

not fast enough

I have repeatedly tried to reset the language to English, but no matter what I do it keeps reading in Russian. There is no point in using it if I can't pick my language.

Your app is not working properly. I have the premium, paid service, and it refuses to let me use the premium voices! Very angry. I have canceled my premium subscription, and started using Read Aloud, TTS Voice Wizard, MS Narrator, and NVDA Speech Generator, as well as having toyed with purchasing a premium Speechify account. All of those products are better than yours, and many of them are free.

This app is Bait and Switch, do not get this. This app is only free if you want to use the horrible robot voices. The half decent natural voices - normally generated for free by Google - has a daily limit, and the premium voices are all behind a pay wall. They expect you to have your own API key, AND they want to charge you a monthly fee lol. Google translate - the web site - has some of these voices, completely free. If you want a truly free, completely open source AI voices, the Edge TTS Voices Chrome extension is what you want to download instead. Every single voice on Edge is natural and FREE. If you want more voices on Edge, you can find it on their web site.

This was great before they added the subscription model. disappointing.

SHORT: I played for a lot of other extensions BUT with Bring your Own key AND monthly subscription- without any warning in adnanced... Really? What a cosmic joke of modern AI services — they lure you in with promises, then slam you with hidden fees like a black hole swallowing your credits. You invest all the work generating an API key... That’s just the appetizer. AFTER THIS TIME INVESTMENT you get the Subscription popup. You pay for your tokens separate, sure, but then they slap on a subscription fee like a greedy space pirate demanding double tribute. In addition... And the kicker? You’re stuck with outdated English-only voices while competitors like Speechify deliver fresher, tokens included, and more diverse options. It’s classic bait-and-switch: overpromise, underdeliver, and overcharge. Welcome to the corporate galaxy where your wallet’s the real star they’re after.

Though I have an active subscription, the premium voices stopped working suddenly. I've sent an email to the support team but no response. To not have access to something I've paid for is frustrating. Update: Days later and still no response from support. Second Update: Many days later, still no response. Final update: Never got a response. Don't waste your time emailing support, they do not care.

Won't work for Libby books with free voices.The voice in video isn't even available in the menu some chat GPT voice.

not free

This app used to work for me, although a little choppy. I'm not sure if chrome updated and changed it, but the app doesn't work at all now. I've tried reinstalling it without any success. Now the best it can do is read one part, about 2 lines, but it won't move on to the next part. It's completely unusable now.

Very bad

This is the most frustrating extension I have ever used, and there are some bad ones out there. It starts talking when you don't want it to. It jumps up to the top of the document when you just found something way down the bottom, so you lose your place. It does not read in your Chrome tab, but opens up a separate window, which might be OK if it worked well. I gave up on it today when every time I hit the STOP button, it restarted talking 10 seconds later. From now on, I'll appreciate MS Edge's Text-to-Voice even though it has it's own problems. It must be a challenging feature to incorporate.

It SUCKS. I wanted to use it to read a pdf book, but every time there's a line change it acts as if it was a different paragraph. Super annoying. The voice is terrible, I thought it'd help me focus but it distracts me more instead. Maybe I'll retry it in the future when AI voices are better

doesnt work. page full of words, and it apparently cant find any, lmao. even when i highlight a section, as it suggests, it still does not find any words. deleting

Less than 1 minute before uninstall. Kept jumping around the page when in wasn't crashing, and randomly started without me pressing anything AND WOULD NOT STOP.

Too inconsistent in reading speed. Also randomly stops working and will stop reading website and you have to open them in a new tab.

Fundamentally works, but it breaks up text at odd places like the middle of a sentense. At the same time it completely ignores formatting (headers, titles etc) and end of lines (cr/nl) and thus is very hard to just listen to. You constantly have to look at where it doesn't infer a stop or where it jumps from a header to a title to a section of text. Needs more work. But on the bright side, it didn't break on me, and it is free.

So far this application seems be very very rough, which makes me wonder how much of the marketing on their web page is made up as at first it seemed like they were highly recommended. However, the free voices just leverage the built and free voices you can use locally on your machine or from google so if you don't want it sounding like a robot you need to sign up for premium. So when I signed up for premium that was an ordeal too andI had to write into support to get premium to work. My ChatGPT API key doesn't work with their API and I had to write support again which this time they did not respond. I tried to cancel my membership and I get a Server Error 500. I really don't recommend this app.

No good voices available. Very outdated.

It's decent for a free extension. Beyond that, it weirdly pauses every time it finishes a line of text, which is annoying. Also not very good at all if your PDF has figures and equations since it won't recognize them as such and will simply spiel random symbols that are unrelated.

Would be good if it could read more than 50 pages at a time. And even if you pay for premium you get a limited amount of premium credits - so you're still stuck rebooting to get it to read the Next 50 pages.

Three stars for now because it works sometimes but other times, it's a struggle. One of the main positives I will say about this extension is that it's better than some of the other ones I have tried using. However, that being said, as of late, it's been very glitchy/choppy. Instead of playing seamlessly, it seems to stop randomly or it will do these extremely long pauses before starting up again at random. This makes it more infuriating when I'm trying to concentrate on long paragraphs or book chapters for school. Along with this, it sometimes doesn't work on certain platforms that use E-Books. It would also be nice if there was a way for it to read PDFs.

Would be perfect but has a pointless limitation on max speed sabotaging the extension, 3x is not enough.