Markdown Read Aloud — Free Neural Text-to-Speech
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Read Markdown files aloud with free, high-quality neural voices — no API key, no sign-up. Text-to-speech (TTS) with automatic language detection across 75 languages, live 0.5×–2.5× speed, read from cursor/selection/heading, and sentence highlighting. Great for proofreading and listening to docs and
Tracked since 5 Sept 2026
Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 24 Sept 2026.
Each bar is one day’s change in the store’s own counter. Open VSX counts a download on every update, so a day includes updates by people who already had it. Days before 5 Sept are reconstructed from public archives rather than read by us.
Where Markdown Read Aloud — Free Neural Text-to-Speech ranks in search
Positions observed daily on both stores. Neither store publishes this, and the two run separate search engines over separate catalogues.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| accessibility | #328of 384↓9 7d | #81of 94↓7 7d |
| markdown | — | #109of 1,087↓1 7d |
5 more searches, day-by-day history, and the extensions ranked above it. See plans | ||
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
- Installs
- 1,745+9.5% 7d
- Rating
- 5.0from 1 ratings
- Rank in Education
- #325of 1,953
- Latest
- v1.16.020 Sept 2026
13 releases · first published Jun 2026
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
- Downloads
- 1,518+39.5% 7d
- Rating
- —from 0 reviews
- Rank in Education
- #287of 459
- Latest
- v1.16.020 Sept 2026
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
What the publisher says
Markdown Read Aloud — Free Neural Text-to-Speech’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.