I’ll also plug Microsoft Edge as a great tool for this: There’s both a desktop browser and a mobile app, and it has a fantastic built-in Read Aloud feature that works in both. You just click the Read Aloud icon or press Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+U on a keyboard and it will start reading your current web page or document out loud!
It has hundreds of neural voices (Microsoft calls them “Natural” voices) in dozens of languages and dialects, and you can change the reading speed too. I find the voices to be among the best I’ve heard, and the super low activation energy of not having to copy-paste anything or switch to another window means I use it much more often than when I tried apps like Neural Reader.
Sidenote, but as a browser, since it’s Chromium-based it’s basically the same as Google Chrome (you can even install extensions from the Chrome Web Store) but with slightly less bloat and better performance.
I’ll also plug Microsoft Edge as a great tool for this: There’s both a desktop browser and a mobile app, and it has a fantastic built-in Read Aloud feature that works in both. You just click the Read Aloud icon or press Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+U on a keyboard and it will start reading your current web page or document out loud!
It has hundreds of neural voices (Microsoft calls them “Natural” voices) in dozens of languages and dialects, and you can change the reading speed too. I find the voices to be among the best I’ve heard, and the super low activation energy of not having to copy-paste anything or switch to another window means I use it much more often than when I tried apps like Neural Reader.
Sidenote, but as a browser, since it’s Chromium-based it’s basically the same as Google Chrome (you can even install extensions from the Chrome Web Store) but with slightly less bloat and better performance.