Best text-to-speech readers
Apps that read documents, web pages, e-books and other text aloud, and can often save the speech as an audio file.
4 apps, ordered by visits from AppBreakup and how often our research lists each one as an alternative. Open any app to see its alternatives.
All text-to-speech readers
- Alternatives to Speechify
Popular text-to-speech app that reads web pages, PDFs, documents and scanned pages aloud.
Free plan + paidWeb, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Browser extension - Alternatives to NaturalReader
Text-to-speech reader for documents and web pages, on the web, desktop, mobile and Chrome.
Free plan + paidWeb, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Browser extension - Alternatives to Balabolka
Free Windows text-to-speech program that reads documents aloud and saves them as audio files.
FreeWindows - Alternatives to Parolu
Small open-source Linux app that reads text aloud offline using downloadable Piper voices.
Open sourceLinux
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Common questions
What are the best text-to-speech readers?
Based on how often our research lists them as alternatives and visits from AppBreakup, the leading text-to-speech readers right now are Speechify, NaturalReader, Balabolka and Parolu.
Are there free text-to-speech readers?
Yes. Speechify (free plan + paid), NaturalReader (free plan + paid), Balabolka (free) and Parolu (open source) have a free option, out of 4 free or freemium apps we track.
Which text-to-speech readers are open source?
Parolu.