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Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader version history - 25 versions

Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software

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Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader version history - 25 versions

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  • Latest version

    Version 1.84.1

    Released Oct 27, 2026 - 326.11 KB
    Works with firefox 58.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    • Autoclose reader mode when reading finishes
    • Improve appearance of reader mode text highlight
    • Prevent phone going to sleep while reading aloud on Android, by keeping the screen on
    • Fix issue when a TTS engine return an empty WAV chunk causing Firefox playback error

    Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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  • Older versions

    Version 1.84.0

    Released Oct 26, 2026 - 324.78 KB
    Works with firefox 58.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    • Add support for Pocket TTS experimental AI voices
    • Fix reader mode to allow page interaction while minimized
    • Fix bug in and improve performance of HTML text processor

    Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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  • Version 1.83.2

    Released Oct 23, 2026 - 322.14 KB
    Works with firefox 58.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    • Fix extension broken on Android

    Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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  • Version 1.83.1

    Released Oct 23, 2026 - 322.08 KB
    Works with firefox 58.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    • Remove the optional (for now) data_collection_permissions declarattion
    • Reduce published package size by 52%

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  • Version 1.83.0

    Released Oct 23, 2026 - 649.65 KB
    Works with firefox 58.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    • Added Reader Mode with text highlighting, playback controls, adjustable text size, and light and dark themes.
    • Added regular expression support to word replacement rules.
    • Improved sentence splitting for offline voices.
    • Fixed playback restarting when opening the pop-out player.
    • Improved cleanup of unused Piper, Supertonic, and NghiTTS tabs.
    • Improved the Advanced Options layout and help popovers.
    • Updated Firefox privacy disclosures and diagnostic consent handling.

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  • Version 1.82.0

    Released Oct 19, 2026 - 621.37 KB
    Works with firefox 58.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    • Added NghiTTS Vietnamese voice support.
    • Added custom word replacements in Advanced Options.
    • Improved multilingual text splitting and Unicode handling.
    • Reduced duplicate audio requests and improved prefetching.
    • Added playback details, reading-time estimates, and refreshed popup controls.
    • Improved compatibility with OpenAI-compatible speech services.

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  • Version 1.81.1

    Released Feb 6, 2026 - 598.06 KB
    Works with firefox 58.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    • Fix issue #481 built-in voices on Android don't work on first use
    • Fix issue #479 memory not being released
    • 471 cache recently synthesized audio to reduce usage of API-based TTS
    • Change default shortcut ALT-O to toggle Play/Stop instead of just Stop

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  • Version 1.81.0

    Released Jan 29, 2026 - 597.75 KB
    Works with firefox 58.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    • add experimental support for Supertonic AI voices
    • add translations for additional 16 major locales
    • add dark mode toggle button on main popup window
    • hide speech-dispatcher voices by default on Linux due to low quality voices
    • fix scrollbars not respecting dark mode and other cosmetic UI/UX improvements

    Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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  • Version 1.80.0

    Released Jun 30, 2025 - 565.3 KB
    Works with firefox 58.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    • Fix #461 when reading Kindle book on Amazon site, on some user machines, Read Aloud is not reading all text on the page

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  • Version 1.79.2

    Released May 15, 2025 - 565.27 KB
    Works with firefox 58.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    • Fix broken PDF read-aloud function (only reading first page, odd line breaks inserted)
    • Fix broken local file read-aloud function (could no longer read local text or html files)

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  • Version 1.79.1

    Released May 6, 2025 - 564.87 KB
    Works with firefox 58.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    • Automatic handling of PDF files, no longer require manual opening inside PDF viewer
    • Add missing i18n translations for GUI

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  • Version 1.78.0

    Released Feb 25, 2025 - 558.32 KB
    Works with firefox 58.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    • Fix 'escapeXml is undefined' issue when trying to use Azure custom voices
    • Update Wavenet code to support News, Casual, Polyglot, Chirp-HD voice types
    • Update OpenAI code to support using any OpenAI compatible Speech endpoint
    • Various UX fixes

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  • Version 1.77.0

    Released Dec 16, 2024 - 558.1 KB
    Works with firefox 58.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    - fix issue with Piper voice where changing speed affects pitch
    - fix issue with Piper tab not automatically closing after 15 minutes of inactivity

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  • Version 1.76.0

    Released Nov 29, 2024 - 557.83 KB
    Works with firefox 58.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    - fix Android local offline voices never gets picked when voice is "auto-select"
    - fix Test button (in options) not working for voices that require further user action, e.g. granting permission, logging in, etc.

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  • Version 1.73.0

    Released Sep 11, 2024 - 476.33 KB
    Works with firefox 58.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    - fix Azure voices could not be activated (#406)
    - fix shortcut keys not working on PDF files
    - improve error reporting

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  • Version 1.72.0

    Released Jun 13, 2024 - 475.84 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    - fix pause function when using built-in voices on Android
    - fix GoogleTranslate voices not working on Android

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  • Version 1.71.0

    Released May 29, 2024 - 476.06 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    - fix click-to-seek ability when using Piper voices

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  • Version 1.70.0

    Released May 23, 2024 - 475.97 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    - add support for nVidia Riva, OpenAI, and Azure custom voices

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  • Version 1.69.0

    Released Apr 8, 2024 - 472.89 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    - Improve support for Kindle reader with prefetching and using Tesseract library to do OCR in-browser
    - Fix issue with seeking when using Microsoft Desktop voices

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  • Version 1.68.0

    Released Mar 29, 2024 - 471.55 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    - added Piper voices (Piper is a collection of high-quality text-to-speech voices created by the Piper Project, powered by machine learning technology. These voices are synthesized in-browser, requiring no cloud subscriptions, and are entirely free to use)
    - fixed Kindle reader page-flipping function

    Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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  • Version 1.67.1

    Released Jan 9, 2024 - 404.34 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    - This build fixes broken extension on Firefox for Android

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  • Version 1.67.0

    Released Jan 3, 2024 - 404.33 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later, android 113.0 and later
    - Fix issue with context menu disappearing after disable/reinstall
    - Add support for websites that use shadow DOM to display content (such as MSN.com)

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  • Version 1.66.0

    Released Sep 16, 2023 - 404.28 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later, android 48.0 and later
    - Fix extension not working on Kindle reader website

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  • Version 1.65.0

    Released Aug 2, 2023 - 404.24 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later, android 48.0 and later
    - Fix problem reading epub files with EPUBReader extension

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  • Version 1.64.0

    Released Jul 9, 2023 - 404.26 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later, android 48.0 and later
    - Add ability to "use my phone" for TTS
    - Show offline voices as a separate group for clarity
    - Fix issue when using extension on Google Slides and Kindle Reader
    - Minor UI improvements

    Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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