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About Aloud is a native macOS text-to-speech app for listening to selected text, PDFs, screenshots, images, and web articles. It reads selections from other Mac apps, can skip PDF headers, footers, and page numbers, recognize scanned pages and image text on-device, and highlight words as they are spoken. Users can control playback in a small floating reader, resume recent readings, adjust speed, set pronunciations, and export audio as M4A. Voices include those installed on macOS and the optional Kokoro neural voice, which runs locally on supported Macs. Users may also connect their own ElevenLabs or Cartesia API key for cloud voices, with those providers billing usage separately. Aloud is designed for Mac users who want to listen while working with documents, research, writing, or web content. It requires macOS 14 or later and is sold as a one-time purchase.	About Build apps and services that speak naturally. Differentiate your brand with a customized, realistic voice generator, and access voices with different speaking styles and emotional tones to fit your use case—from text readers and talkers to customer support chatbots. Enable fluid, natural-sounding text to speech that matches the intonation and emotion of human voices. Tune voice output for your scenarios by easily adjusting rate, pitch, pronunciation, pauses, and more. Engage global audiences by using 400 neural voices across 140 languages and variants. Bring your scenarios like text readers and voice-enabled assistants to life with highly expressive and human-like voices. Neural Text to Speech supports several speaking styles including newscast, customer service, shouting, whispering, and emotions like cheerful and sad.
Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Not Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported	Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Audience Mac users, including students, researchers, writers, and people with dyslexia or eye strain, who want to listen to text, PDFs, screenshots, and web articles.	Audience Businesses looking for a speech service to convert text to lifelike speech
Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Not Supported	Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported
API Offers API Not Supported	API Offers API Not Supported
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Pricing $19 one-time $19 one-time license per Mac; no recurring Aloud subscription. Optional ElevenLabs or Cartesia voice usage is billed separately by those services. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Not Supported	Pricing No information available. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Supported
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Company Information Aloud United States aloudapp.app/	Company Information Microsoft Founded: 1975 United States azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/text-to-speech/
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	Text to Speech Features Adjust Speaking Rate / Pitch Supported API Supported Audio Optimization Supported Custom Lexicons Supported Different Voice Choices Supported Multi-Language Support Supported Synchronize Speech Supported
Integrations Azure AI Content Safety Not Supported Azure AI Services Not Supported Brave Browser Supported ElevenLabs Supported Expertflow Contact Center Not Supported Google Chrome Supported Lont Not Supported Medeo Not Supported Microsoft Edge Supported PubNub Not Supported Safari Supported Siri Supported Smart IVR Not Supported Wordspilot Not Supported voximplant Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 6 Integrations	Integrations Azure AI Content Safety Supported Azure AI Services Supported Brave Browser Not Supported ElevenLabs Not Supported Expertflow Contact Center Supported Google Chrome Not Supported Lont Supported Medeo Supported Microsoft Edge Not Supported PubNub Supported Safari Not Supported Siri Not Supported Smart IVR Supported Wordspilot Supported voximplant Supported Show More Integrations View All 9 Integrations
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