Text to Speech! alternatives

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1. [R1] Text to Speech! 2/5 · US Glitchy already: I just downloaded this app cause of surgery so I can “talk” still and it’s already glitching out and making my keys stick
2. [R9] Text to Speech! 3/5 · US Bugs: This app is so buggy but it’s the only fully free one out there so i don’t really care. It won’t let me put any of files in for it to read and it also crashes if I add too much text when typing or copy and pasting
3. [R11] Text to Speech! 4/5 · US Problems recently though: Love the app had it for a few years works perfectly up until last month. When it started freezing. Had to delete app and reload now it seems like it’s happening every couple days. If not sooner is the latest update the problem? Is there a resolution for this? Please fix the app Thank you.
4. [R12] Text to Speech! 3/5 · US Amazing app but freezes a lot: The app freezes a lot but other than that it’s amazing please fix it asap
5. [R4] Text to Speech! 1/5 · US Ads: Annoying ads not good quality software but doesn’t say yeah very well
6. [R6] Text to Speech! 3/5 · US To many adds: So every time I click a the words I saved like if I click 3 or 5 and add always pops up so if you could pls put less adds
7. [R10] Text to Speech! 1/5 · US 5 stars must be fake: The in-app ads make this unusable and infuriating. A person who can’t speak doesn’t want or need an ad interrupting what could be a desperate need to communicate. My friend with PLS can barely use his hands in the first place, so just using the device is an obstacle already…this app is 100% useless as long as it has video ads that play while trying to use it.
8. [R26] Text to Speech! 4/5 · US ADDS: I don’t like the adds……
9. [R3] Text to Speech! 3/5 · US Inconvenient to use: The app needs refinement regarding its UI settings and core functionality. Currently, you cannot copy text from the 'Starred' section. This is a major inconvenience because it prevents me from backing up or transferring important data before the app's auto-delete function triggers. Having to manually transcribe text that should be copyable is frustrating
10. [R5] Text to Speech! 4/5 · US Too simple: Its a great app but its much too simple
11. [R16] Text to Speech! 2/5 · US Reduced Usability: Was much better before text length limit was implemented. I can’t listen to a full article anymore, only a 2 or 3 paragraph excerpt.
12. [R19] Text to Speech! 2/5 · US Please Loop Playback 🔂: Please add a feature to be able to loop playback. Been waiting years. Then 5 stars!!!
13. [R17] Text to Speech! 4/5 · US I love this app but there are a few things I don’t like: So for one this is an awesome app but even if you pick out a good voice out of the few choices for some words it can sound very demonic, for another thing is yes there are adds but of course there are, also it can take a while to type out what you need to say. So if you need a temporary way to communicate it is a great app. I also love how
14. [R22] Text to Speech! 1/5 · US Voice: How do change vocal?
15. [R28] Text to Speech! 1/5 · US I got scared: Bro the voices sound like an watching a Emergency broadcast T_T😭
16. [R39] Text to Speech! 3/5 · GB bad: please make me changed the voice
17. [R52] Speechify 4/5 · US It’s kinda confusing: I like it. But every time I scan my book, it just brings me to a video.
18. [R54] Speechify 1/5 · US Very deceptive: I paid $50 for this app thinking I could tap / take a picture of books and the app would read it too me. No it wants to charge me for everything. Extremely deceptive
19. [R55] Speechify 4/5 · US If own a book do I have to pay again for it?: Like this app! I am just too busy right now to sign up. Will tho, but not right now. I have many books I bought but just do not get to read. Do you have to pay for the reading of book if you already own it?
20. [R58] Speechify 4/5 · US Slow learning: Good to understand
21. [R66] Voice Aloud Reader 5/5 · US As advertised: For a free app, it does the job. Looked at other reader apps, you can pay far more than this app for premium features. I’ve had this app for years. Highlight what you want to read off the Internet, and click copy, open the voice reader app, as long as you have it turned on in settings, your text will appear, click the arrow at the bottom of the page and start listening. You might
22. [R69] Voice Aloud Reader 5/5 · US Ofc there’s ads: But nothing is free free. Watch an add get like 10 mins of reading. Rinse repeat. Does all I need it to do tho
23. [R74] Voice Aloud Reader 1/5 · US terrible: it’s a good app for a day until they restrict you to 10 minutes of listening and then make you wait 30 minutes to listen again or pay for no ads
24. [R75] Voice Aloud Reader 4/5 · US Great App: And it’s free at least right now I’ve been using it for about two years. I wish that they had a feature to summarize each chapter and also if you could take a bookmark and Mark where you were at and maybe get some highlights in there I really like it even more so than it’s very user-friendly considering Speechify takes you an hour to get on and then you end up having to pay eventually s
25. [R80] Voice Dream 5/5 · US Vision and great resources: This is one of them. This program on my phone got me through a very rigorous graduate level program with honors. I was able to listen to all textbooks and articles with ease. I could adapt the speed the color. The print.
26. [R81] Voice Dream 3/5 · US Defining a word is one tap away too many: When reading books, it’s fairly common to learn about new words. Now you can get the definition by tap and holding on to the word, “tapping >”, the tapping define. The define shouldn’t be on the second set of commands. The quoted step should be eliminated to define a word which is a very common and important task when reading a book. Currently, the first
27. [R83] Voice Dream 5/5 · US Beats Speechify for academics!: Got this to read my research material for my PhD. Was working full time and taking care of my family. Voice dream’s bookmark and highlight feature allows you to tab sentences while on a run or a drive and lets you export only your tabbed text into a single txt file with the push of a button! Saves me weeks of time writing notes, trying to find them for papers/diss
28. [R85] Voice Dream 4/5 · US Mostly good, but voice selection is quite confusing: First of all, I would like to thank you for develope this app. At the beginning, the voice selection is very good: a clear button for playing sample and downloading. It vividly divides into category like American English, British English. But now, the voice selection is mixed up. I have to scroll a long list to find the voice I want.
29. [R94] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 4/5 · US Pretty good overall, needs support for apostrophes: I am using this app for reading textbooks to me. I like it a lot, the cheaper tier works just fine for me. The voice is obviously synthetic, but listenable. Right now I’m having real issues with the fact that the app can’t read apostrophes correctly. It’s distracting to hear about “Occam ess razor” instead of Occam’s razor. I hope that’s somethin
30. [R95] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 3/5 · US Great product, but has some glitches: Generally works really great, but once in a while, it glitches and gets stuck in a thinking mode. Or sometimes it does an indefinite pause between pasted paragraphs. These are frustrations, which makes the product less than ideal. I also wish that it was smart enough to recognize but notes and end note when they document pasted, it would not read those numbers
31. [R96] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 1/5 · US Very disappointed: Im very disappointed with this app. I tried several that had the same pdf upload and read out function and this one was by far the best (at the time) this was November of 2025. I used the app through January without issue. I hadnt used it in some time and when i went back and uploaded a PDF for some reason In June of 2026 the app reads out and highlights two different parts of t
32. [R97] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 4/5 · US The voices in the app sound congested: I really like the app because I hate reading and it’s relatively cheap compared to other apps. I only have the pro version of the app, but the voices all sound congested when reading 😭 I was using ChatGPT to read stuff to me at first, but it stopped working and would cut out in the middle of reading so I switched to this. It isn’t bad, I just can’t pick a voi
33. [R107] Narrator's Voice 1/5 · US MUCHOS ANUNCIOS: Mas anuncios que voces
34. [R108] Narrator's Voice 5/5 · US Great app!: This app really made my life better and it made turning text to speech way easier, faster, an mor efficient,.
35. [R109] Narrator's Voice 3/5 · US Repeats: this is a good app, especially voices but some bugs have got to be ironed out out with some of my Bible verses it keeps repeating several times that takes away the flow of the scriptures
36. [R111] Narrator's Voice 5/5 · US Me encanta: Éste es el mejor de todo el mundo que estoy muy interesado, aunque me encanta esto me encanta todo El la Voz del Narrador es la mejor app. Te recomiendo esto
37. [R2] Text to Speech! 5/5 · US Best free text to speech app: Love how this app is free! I also like how simple it is. Definitely worth having.
38. [R38] Text to Speech! 5/5 · US Amazing app: It’s soo good and the voices aren’t bad either
39. [R87] Voice Dream 5/5 · US Just my experience: I’ve struggled with reading my entire life, in school, trying to keep up with classmates, and later at work, trying not to fall behind my colleagues. I tried so many reading apps over the years. Most were expensive, and even then, they still couldn’t do what I needed. Voice Dream changed everything for me. The first time I used it, it felt like a locked door finally opened.
40. [R51] Speechify 1/5 · US Not worth the money: There are apps out there that are so much better. So far, I cannot read a single book on this app without (of course) paying even more money! Absolutely not. I truly want a refund, advertised and what is delivered are two completely different things!!
41. [R56] Speechify 3/5 · US Poor service: I purchased this, app used it maybe 5 times to try it out. They bill me & I try to contact no # only email won’t give refunds they try to keep by give you a reduced rate. I don’t use your app at this point just stop charging me. UPDATE: I got a refund app is cool but they need to expand that library I wanted to use it for Mgmnt books very limited
42. [R60] Speechify 1/5 · US Expensive: It’s 140$ to expensive