As of the catalog pass of , this list holds 12 extensions, ordered by current audience and led by Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader (6.0M users).
Read-aloud extensions live or die on voice quality, which no catalog can measure. What a catalog can tell you is which ones people kept: audience size, rating and whether the listing is still being maintained.
Candidates are Chrome Web Store listings whose title names the job (“text to speech”, “read aloud”, “tts”, with at least 2 000 users and at least 50 ratings). We then add up to 6 listings the catalog judges to do the same job even though their title never says so, because ranking by who writes the keyword best is backwards. Everything is ordered by current audience, which our own crawler reads from the store up to 2 times a day. Ordering by audience is not a verdict on quality: how many people kept an extension is what we can observe, and how good it is for you is not. On this page it added nothing: everything the catalog judged close enough was already found by title.
In the store's categories
This list follows what people ask for; the store files the same extensions under its own categories:
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader 6.0M users
NaturalReader - AI Text to Speech 1.0M users
Speechify — Text to Speech 1.0M users
ImTranslator: Translator, Dictionary, TTS 900k users
Voice In - Voice Typing & Speech-to-Text Dictation 700k users
Read Aloud TTS: Text to Speech AI Voice Generator 600k users
VoiceNote II - Speech to text 500k users
Speech to Text (Voice Recognition) 300k users
Selection Reader (Text to Speech) 200k users
Translate - Translator, Dictionary, TTS 100k users
Speechnotes - Speech To Text Notepad 80k users
Riddr - Text to Speech reader for Chrome 70k users