WebOutLoud - Text to Speech

This is a great app for listening to articles while traveling or commuting!

I’ve tried other paid text to speech apps and by far this one is my favorite! Not just because of the app’s functionality but also the app developers customer service. They are very responsive to inquiries and suggestions on ways to improve their product. Well worth the price. I’m extremely pleased.

The interace is aweful. It uses it's own menu bar of icons on the bottom of the application which I do not know what half of them are. It's essentially a Chrome browser embeeded an application with some buttons tacked on at the bottom. It uses very little standard ui/ux conventions for the macos menu items, ie File/Open are not used at all. To simply bring in pdf files you have to go to the "saved content" window, add a pdf to it. It doesn't have a table of contents or a thumbnail list. As soon as you resize the window, it resets the pdf back to page 1. If you haven't paid for the tool many buttons will force you to a purchase window which you can't get out of without force quiting the app. Once you get to the reading part it is fine but the experience just trying to demo the product before paying for it is less then desirable.

Not worth downloading hard to use and it glitches.

It charges premium for voices it stole from Amazon, google, Microsoft, and open AI. How y'all gonna charge for something that isn't even yours. 🤦🏽‍♀️

I save so much time being able to multitask with this tool! I can research information on any website and most of the time we out loud can read it to me. Allowing me to get additional task completed. Also I lose my patience when trying to read written words and usually get headaches whenever my brain feels like I’ve been reading to much. Headaches are most like caused from bending my neck to look down and read text from website articles on my phone or tablet. So web out loud is literally saving me from my neck pain too! WebOutLoud allows me to read or aka listen to more articles than what my own reading speed is, this allows me to get more done. It is so very easy to use also! I simply share and open the webpage I’m reading into WebOutLoud and hit play. So there is no copy, cut and pasting into another app that will read text for me. It’s much more simple just click one icon and open that webpage up in WebOutLoud. Very useful, time saving app! I love it!

Works add are annoying and I don’t want to pay

This is my go-to reader in the few occasions I need a reader to read directly from the browser as exporting the page doesnt work for whatever non-related reason. I would LOVE for an option for a built in adblock in the browser 🫠 i’m not talking about the “no ads” that are forced onto you by the app - i bought the no ad plan - i’m talking about the browser ads placed by websites. 😩 i know there is reader mode that will get ride of the appearance of ads, but there are a handful of websites that reader mode is not very compatible with and the text gets skipped sometimes.

I use this app to listen to fanfiction. I absolutely love it :-) I have the version with only one voice. It is easy to use and prevents me from having to get multiple apps to listed to my various fanfiction sites.

OK, if this is what the update it’s unnecessary fixing problems I cannot understand but adding a folder for a new content I just confuses me even more having to go back-and-forth between each one if it’s possible could you fix that? I feel like I shouldn’t have to do unnecessary work just to save content.