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. 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. It works on a variety of websites, including news sites, blogs, fan fiction, publications, textbooks, school and class websites, and online university course materials. Read Aloud uses text-to-speech (TTS) technology to convert webpage text to audio. Read aloud the current web-page article with one click, using text to speech (TTS).

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