𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗔𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 — 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝘁 Long posts don't always arrive at a convenient moment. Read Aloud puts a speaker icon into the post header, right next to the bookmark icon: click it and the post is read to you — the title first, then the text. Classroom lessons carry the same icon in their action row, so a written lesson can be listened to instead of read — there too, a folded text is unfolded before it is read out. In the feed the icon sits on every post card alongside the bookmark, so a post can be heard without opening it; both appear only while the mouse is over the card, and stay visible whenever they show a state — a post being read out, a bookmark that is set, a card that was auto-translated. The voice comes from your browser, so there is nothing to set up and nothing to pay for. Which voices exist depends on your operating system and browser; Read Aloud picks the one matching your Skool Extensions interface language. If the post is still folded behind a "Show more" link, it unfolds first, so you hear the whole thing instead of just the opening. A second click stops it — while a post is playing, the icon stays green. Moving on to another post ends the playback too, so a post you left behind never talks over the one you are reading now. Hovering the icon opens a small menu with two settings: speed between 0.75× and 2×, and every voice your system has to offer, grouped by language. The group at the top is the language the text is actually in — the one the community writes in, or, while auto-translation is on for that community, the language it translates into. Your interface language only decides the labels. The groups are collapsed, except the one holding the voice currently in use — a machine with two dozen voices would otherwise fill the whole menu with names you never pick. Above them sit the cloud voices, a Premium addition. They come from OpenAI instead of your operating system and sound markedly more natural, German included — useful when your machine has no voice for the language at all. They are not tied to a language: each of the six speaks every language, which is why the group is labelled "all languages" rather than sorted like the system voices. A cloud voice has to be fetched before it can play, which takes a moment. Picking a voice stops the current reading straight away and the icon shows a spinning ring until the new voice takes over at the passage you had reached. Each Premium account gets 66,000 tokens a month, one token per character read out, which is roughly forty-five average posts. Listening to the same post again is free and does not count: once a post has been read aloud, its recording is kept and shared, so the second person to play it pays nothing. The counter at the bottom of the menu shows what is left, and it resets at the start of each month. Both take effect right away. Clicking a voice starts reading immediately, and if a post is already playing it carries on at the passage being read rather than starting over — that also holds when switching between a browser voice and a cloud voice. The choice stays on the device you made it on, because which voices exist depends on the machine.