Read Aloud: More monthly Premium voice time

dstillman Zotero Team
We've greatly increased the amount of monthly Premium voice time available to Read Aloud users with a Zotero Storage subscription. For now, all paid plans get 20 hours a month of listening with most Premium voices. Certain voices have a lower limit of about 4.5 hours, though we're keeping the 20-hour limit for languages where there aren't other voices available.

The monthly limits will reset on November 1 (UTC) and every month going forward.

We may adjust these limits as we evaluate usage, but we hope to be able to offer a significant amount of monthly Premium voice time to subscribers. All paid plans continue to include unlimited Standard voice time.

If you'd like to add a subscription, you can do so from your storage settings.

If you're a paying user and you exhaust your monthly allocation, email support@zotero.org to let us know. If there's sufficient demand for additional time above the monthly allocation, we'll look into making it possible to purchase more time (though you can also switch to Standard for the remainder of the month if there's a Standard voice for your language).
  • Thank you to the Zotero team for this substantial increase in monthly Premium voice time. This is a welcome improvement that makes Read Aloud considerably more useful for subscribers. I also appreciate your willingness to consider offering additional listening time for purchase. It's encouraging to see such responsiveness to user feedback!
  • Thanks a lot for your efforts!
  • Wow, this is so amazing!!!

    I was wondering why the Zotero Premium voices (in fact also the Standard voices) are so much better than the local iOS voices? I downloaded various premium voices for iOS but none of them achieves a nearly as good quality as the Zotero voices... Any hope / chance that the local iOS voices will improve in terms of quality and compatibility with Zotero in the future?
  • @DanLe11: There's no connection between Zotero's Premium voices and the "Premium" iOS/macOS voices. Apple just hasn't meaningfully updated its local voices in years (except for the Siri voices, which are probably roughly equivalent to our Standard voices but aren't exposed to third-party apps). I assume Apple will improve local voices in an upcoming OS version, but that's obviously a question for them.
  • Will German be available in standard voices?
  • Thank you so much for that upgrade. It helps me a lot focusing on reading Papers, that are not in my native language. I would love to have a way to pay to add additional Premium voice time. Keep up the good work, you are heroes!
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