Aloud: Natural Text to Speech Reader, Offline

Read any article aloud with a fully local neural voice. No servers, no accounts: synthesis, your notes, your highlights and your reading positions never leave this device.

What does go over the network, once each and only when you ask for it: downloading a voice model, previewing a Piper voice you have not downloaded (a short hosted clip), and fetching a page or PDF you told Aloud to read or queue. A saved article's images stay unfetched until you press "Load images", so reopening one tells nobody you are reading it.

Runs on Firefox (desktop and Android) and Chromium (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera).

Install: Chrome Web Store · Firefox Add-ons (desktop and Android) · Website

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