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Aloud
A Mac menu-bar reader that speaks any text with the current word highlighted
For $19 once, it covers most of what people pay Speechify a subscription for, and with on-device voices your documents never leave the Mac.
Aloud reads to you from the menu bar. A shortcut speaks whatever you have selected in any app; PDFs are read without running headers, page numbers or footnote marks; images and scanned pages are recognised on the Mac first. A small floating reader tracks each word. It uses the Mac's own voices or an optional on-device Kokoro voice, with ElevenLabs or Cartesia if you bring a key. Readings export as audio. It costs $19 per Mac, once, from SnapState.
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