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Read Aloud vs Natural Reader

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Read Aloud

Category: Text to Speech

Industries: Education, Medical

Pricing

  • Free: $0
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Natural Reader

Category: Text to Speech

Industries: Education, Professionals, Business, Organization

Pricing

  • Free: $0
  • Plus: $20.90
  • Pro: $25.90

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Most popular feedback

Read Aloud

For a free product, the voice options are quite good with a number of premium options from Google and Amazon. Its function is limited to reading whatever text is selected or readable in your web browser.

- Slant Community

Natural Reader

Been using for years. Has a great experience with them. They have fixed many bugs over the course of five years. They always answered my Customer Service emails. They were able to make changes that I had complained about to the whole system. And it only took them less than a year to make these changes. I

- Ashley

About

Read Aloud

Read Aloud is a browser extension and app that converts webpages and documents into speech. It supports multiple voices, languages, and playback speeds, and works with popular TTS engines like Google and Microsoft. Users can customize pitch and rate, and the tool can read aloud PDFs, Google Docs, and web articles directly.

Natural Reader

NaturalReader is a Text-to-Speech program that converts written text into natural-sounding audio. It supports multiple file types including PDF, Word, and web pages, and offers both desktop and online versions. Users can choose from various voices and languages, adjust speed, and save audio as MP3 files for later use.

Reviews

Read Aloud

Excellent extension for reading college textbooks pdfs. Although the speed is capped at x10. If possible, please increase the limit of the speed. Thank you for making this extension!
Electrophon
A great tool to use when you have attention deficit disorder, limited range of motion/physical disability, making things easier to be at your fingertips. ReadAlound needs a icon or share icon to connect to the different websites quicker.
Ms. Courtney
This software is so well designed, and it works all the time. I highly recommend this software for people looking for text to speech software. Just hit control C and then click read and it reads whatever you copied. Thanks for such a stable software.
Donald

Natural Reader

I started using another service and it took hours to read and put downloadable MP3. Natural reader done the job under 3 minutes - the voice I chose was PERFECT (there are so many choices). I have used the free version and I will definitely upgrade. Amazing service to reach the best outcome I needed. User friendly to... 20 0ut of 10, seriously.
Karrigan Atkins
Nice concept. Great list of features. However the app suffers from freezing and notifications flooding and overall brokenness. It means a lot more work in order to be truly useful. Plus it can't handle over 50k worth of text characters which is ridiculously small and it does try to compensate by splitting the file but that is also a shortcoming. I really wanted to love this app because I need something that can do this work. I have yet to find a stable working TTS app
Mark Kamoski
The best of the best, but not perfect This has got to be the best voice reader I have ever found, and trust me, I’ve searched a lot. The voices in the premium are miles better than anything any other company produces, most certainly better than comes standard on my laptop. That is why I give this five stars, because this app deserves it.
Regina

Pros

Read Aloud

  • Free and easy to use
  • Works directly in the browser
  • Supports many voices & languages
  • Pronunciation editor

Natural Reader

  • Clear, natural voices
  • Supports many file formats
  • Supports many file formats
  • Saves audio as MP3 Online & desktop versions

Cons

Read Aloud

  • Voice quality varies
  • Internet needed for some voices
  • Limited customization
  • Struggles with complex pages

Natural Reader

  • Free version limited
  • Advanced voices require payment
  • Internet needed for premium voices
  • Basic editing features only

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