Best alternatives to PDF Text to Speech (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to PDF Text to Speech, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.
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PDF Text to Speech alternatives, compared
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Speechify — Text to Speech
Read aloud any Google Doc, PDF, webpage, or book with text to speech (TTS). Natural sounding voices in 60+ languages & 1,000 voices.
≈1M users4.6★ from 22.7K ratingsUpdated 4 days ago15 permissions- About 1000× more users than PDF Text to Speech
- Asks for more permissions (15 vs 11)
- Listed under Education
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PDF Reader Aloud — Read PDF Out Loud, Text to Speech
Listen to any document — PDF Reader Aloud is a text to speech reader that can read out loud in natural voices.
562 users5.0★ from 3 ratingsUpdated 12 days ago7 permissions- About 1.8× fewer users than PDF Text to Speech
- Asks for fewer permissions (7 vs 11)
- Listed under Accessibility
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Speech to Text
Convert speech to text instantly with this voice dictation extension. Transcribe audio,voice memos files to text with high accuracy
≈1K users4.2★ from 10 ratingsUpdated 6 days ago27 permissions- A similar number of users to PDF Text to Speech
- Asks for more permissions (27 vs 11)
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PDF to Text
Extract text from PDFs in the side panel. Instant for text-layer PDFs, OCR fallback for scans.
≈7K users3.9★ from 18 ratingsUpdated 8 weeks ago3 permissions- About 7.0× more users than PDF Text to Speech
- Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 11)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Text to Speech (TTS)
A text to speech tool with natural sounding voices.
≈50K users3.1★ from 38 ratingsUpdated 12 months ago2 permissions- About 50× more users than PDF Text to Speech
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 11)
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Talkie: text-to-speech (TTS)
Fast & easy text-to-speech. Read aloud from websites, PDF, email. Privacy-aware, open source code.
≈40K users3.6★ from 171 ratingsUpdated 4 months ago5 permissions- About 40× more users than PDF Text to Speech
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (5 vs 11)
- Listed under Accessibility
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Read PDF Aloud: PDF Text to Speech & Voice Reader
Listen to PDFs with natural text-to-speech. Highlights sentences & words as you read. Perfect for research papers and dyslexia.
324 users5.0★ from 2 ratingsUpdated 6 weeks ago1 permissions- About 3.1× fewer users than PDF Text to Speech
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 11)
- Listed under Accessibility
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Text to Speech TTS AI | Readvox
Read aloud Web articles, Google Docs, Kindle, PDF with natural, lifelike voices. Beautiful text to speech AI TTS.
≈50K users4.2★ from 273 ratingsUpdated 3 months ago9 permissions- About 50× more users than PDF Text to Speech
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (9 vs 11)
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Add Text to PDF
Easily add text to PDF, add signature to PDF, create PDF fillable forms, and edit documents online directly in your browser.
605 users3.8★ from 4 ratings3 permissions- About 1.7× fewer users than PDF Text to Speech
- Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 11)
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PDF to Text Converter
Convert PDF documents to Text files.
≈3K users1.8★ from 11 ratingsNot updated for 2+ yearsNo special permissions- About 3.0× more users than PDF Text to Speech
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 11)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
PDF Text to Speech alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to PDF Text to Speech?
By users, the most popular alternative is Speechify — Text to Speech with ≈1M users and a 4.6-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Speechify — Text to Speech.
Which PDF Text to Speech alternative has the best rating?
Speechify — Text to Speech has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.6 out of 5 from 22.7K ratings.
Is there a PDF Text to Speech alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
PDF to Text Converter asks for 0 permissions, against 11 for PDF Text to Speech.
How many alternatives to PDF Text to Speech are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to PDF Text to Speech on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.
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