Data month 2026-09

Voice AI

Audio

AI Voice

Read selected text aloud. Free with built-in browser voices, or bring your own Groq API key for premium-quality voices.

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According to AlphaMoat, as of 2026-09, the Chrome extension Voice AI has 33 users (+57.1% MoM) — ranked #6,308 of 9,324 AI browser extensions, and #271 of 333 in Audio.

Users · 2026-09

33+57.1%

Rating

Overall Rank (9,324)

#6,308

Audio Rank

#271/ 333

What is Voice AI

From the Chrome Web Store

Read selected text aloud. Free with built-in browser voices, or bring your own Groq API key for premium-quality voices. Voice AI reads any text you select on the web — instantly, with no signup, no ads, and no limits.

🎙️ TWO FREE VOICE MODES

Browser voices (default). Uses your operating system's built-in text-to-speech engine. Zero setup. Works offline. No quota. 50+ voices on macOS, 30+ on Windows.

Premium AI voices via Groq (optional). Bring your free Groq API key and unlock 6 expressive Orpheus voices — Autumn, Diana, Hannah, Austin, Daniel, Troy. Groq's free tier currently allows 200 characters per request and 100 requests per day per account — enough to try the voices and read a few short articles daily. For heavier use, Groq offers a pay-as-you-go Dev Tier at $22 per 1M characters. Current limits and pricing: https://console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits and https://console.groq.com/settings/billing.

No subscription. No paywall. You keep the key.

🎯 MADE FOR READING

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Select any text on any page → right-click "Speak selected text", or press ⌘+Shift+S
Pause, resume, stop at any moment
Adjust speed (0.5×–2×) and pitch on the fly
Search across all your installed voices by name or language

🔒 PRIVACY BY DESIGN

Open source under MIT license: github.com/Smolevich/voice-ai-extension
Your text never goes to our servers — only to the provider you chose
Your Groq API key is stored locally in your browser via chrome.storage.sync. We never see it.
Zero telemetry. Zero analytics. Zero ads.

⌨️ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

⌘+Shift+S (Ctrl+Shift+S on Windows/Linux) — speak the current selection
⌘+Shift+X (Ctrl+Shift+X) — stop

Both can be remapped in chrome://extensions/shortcuts.

📖 HOW TO USE

1. Install the extension. 2. Select text on any page. 3. Right-click → "Speak selected text" — or press ⌘+Shift+S. 4. (Optional) Open Settings → paste your free Groq API key (get one in 2 minutes at console.groq.com/keys) → switch the voice source to Groq in the popup.

🆓 WHAT YOU'LL PAY: NOTHING

The extension is free forever. Browser voices have no quota and no provider account is needed. Groq's free tier (200 characters/request, 100 requests/day) lets you sample premium voices and read a few short articles daily; heavier use goes through Groq's $22/1M-character Dev Tier. There is no hidden Premium subscription on our side — what you see is what you get. Groq pricing: https://console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits

A managed Premium subscription with curated voices is on the roadmap at voice.smolevich.com for users who'd rather not handle API keys themselves, but the core extension stays free. A local on-device voice option (private, offline) is also planned — note that it will involve a one-time model download and meaningful RAM usage, with quality and performance depending on browser and hardware.

📬 FEEDBACK

Issues, pull requests and feature ideas welcome at github.com/Smolevich/voice-ai-extension.