Best alternatives to Talkie: text-to-speech (TTS) (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Talkie, 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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Talkie 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 3 days ago15 permissions- About 25× more users than Talkie
- Rated 1.0 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (15 vs 5)
- Listed under Education
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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- A similar number of users to Talkie
- Rated 0.6 stars higher
- Asks for more permissions (9 vs 5)
- Listed under Tools
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PDF Text to Speech
Convert PDF text to speech and listen to documents in Chrome with natural, easy playback.
≈1K users5.0★ from 6 ratingsUpdated 8 days ago11 permissions- About 40× fewer users than Talkie
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (11 vs 5)
- Listed under Tools
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NaturalReader - AI Text to Speech
Read aloud any text with realistic AI voices, compatible with webpages, kindle Ebooks, Google Docs, PDF, Emails, and more.
≈1M users4.2★ from 2.4K ratingsUpdated 3 weeks ago10 permissions- About 25× more users than Talkie
- Rated 0.6 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (10 vs 5)
- Listed under Tools
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Text to Speech (TTS) Read Aloud Voice Reader by Audeus
Read aloud using text-to-speech (TTS) to convert webpages, PDF, emails, & text to audio. Text-to-speech extension with AI voices
≈2K users3.7★ from 50 ratingsUpdated 3 months ago8 permissions- About 20× fewer users than Talkie
- Asks for more permissions (8 vs 5)
- Listed under Education
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Text to Speech
Text to Speech Hewizo removes ads and reads articles in over 30+ languages using state of the art AI text to speech engine TTS
≈8K users3.4★ from 41 ratingsNot updated for 5+ years4 permissions- About 5.0× fewer users than Talkie
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 5)
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Voice Out: Read Aloud Text to Speech Reader
Read aloud any webpage, PDF, Google Doc or ebook with natural AI voices. Free text to speech (TTS) in 30+ languages, 130+ voices.
≈40K users4.1★ from 189 ratingsUpdated 4 weeks ago13 permissions- A similar number of users to Talkie
- Rated 0.6 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (13 vs 5)
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Speech to Text
Speech recognizer application to keep it as text.
≈2K users3.3★ from 3 ratingsNot updated for 4+ years1 permissions- About 20× fewer users than Talkie
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 5)
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Pixie Reader: Text-to-Speech, TTS, PDF, Web Highlight & OpenDyslexic
Text-to-Speech (TTS) reader with web highlighter & OpenDyslexic font. Perfect for dyslexia, studying & making web content accessible
≈60K users3.3★ from 47 ratingsUpdated 3 months ago5 permissions- About 1.5× more users than Talkie
- Rated 0.3 stars lower
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Simple Text To Speech
simple text-to-speech and text queue card readers for chrome
≈1K users2.3★ from 3 ratingsUpdated 20 months ago2 permissions- About 40× fewer users than Talkie
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 5)
Talkie alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to Talkie?
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 Talkie 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 Talkie alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
Speech to Text asks for 1 permissions, against 5 for Talkie.
How many alternatives to Talkie are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to Talkie on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.
Users and ratings are the figures shown on the Chrome Web Store, re-checked continuously. Alternatives are matched on name, description, category and topic. Browse best-of lists by niche.