Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
Review by Micro Mo
Rated 4 out of 5
by Micro Mo, 7 years agoThis will get bumped to a 5 when you can tell us how to fix the context menu option from disappearing.
For the meantime, here are the short cut keys to do the same things:
To Play - Alt-P
To Stop - Alt-O
Go Forward - Alt-Period or "Alt-."
To Rewind - Alt-Comma or "Alt,"
If you should forget Alt-P - Click the button in the toolbar that looks like a megaphone, if it's playing, hit the stop button. Then click the gear button next to the play button. A larger "Options" box will open, at the top you will see "Edit shortcut keys" that will open a new tab with the short cut keys listed. Using Alt-P will speak what you highlighted. If you don't highlight anything, it reads the whole page I believe.
Oh and some might not know but the little gear button is also where you change the reading voice. I like the Amazon ones.
Hope this helps you folks out while we wait for the fix. Actually Alt-P might be easier to use than the context menu. If they made this option clearer, most people probably wouldn't care and again, I would bump my rating up to a 5, for the clarity.
One Ton Shadow ©
For the meantime, here are the short cut keys to do the same things:
To Play - Alt-P
To Stop - Alt-O
Go Forward - Alt-Period or "Alt-."
To Rewind - Alt-Comma or "Alt,"
If you should forget Alt-P - Click the button in the toolbar that looks like a megaphone, if it's playing, hit the stop button. Then click the gear button next to the play button. A larger "Options" box will open, at the top you will see "Edit shortcut keys" that will open a new tab with the short cut keys listed. Using Alt-P will speak what you highlighted. If you don't highlight anything, it reads the whole page I believe.
Oh and some might not know but the little gear button is also where you change the reading voice. I like the Amazon ones.
Hope this helps you folks out while we wait for the fix. Actually Alt-P might be easier to use than the context menu. If they made this option clearer, most people probably wouldn't care and again, I would bump my rating up to a 5, for the clarity.
One Ton Shadow ©
1,196 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17553385, 5 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by William Nettles, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Enno, 17 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19294083, 20 days agoThis is the same technology as existed in win XP.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ndb, 23 days agosince they introduced the piper voices it got a lot better. it's not perfect, but it's WAY better with the piper voices now.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 17317368, a month agoTried to use it in Firefox on Mint: The voices are straight out of a horror movie. Not close to reality a bit and horrifying at the same time. There is one called female whisper, and it sounds like a witch whispering to you in a dark forest in a dead of night while you are sleeping.
- Rated 4 out of 5by GollumsRing, a month agoExcellent extension. It would be great if it could omit pronouncing the citations at the end of sentences as well as being able to pause after a period in the sentence. Also, if it could avoid reading hyperlinks, that would be cool too. Otherwise, its 5 stars
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17902605, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15037318, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cassidy, a month agoyou have to use the piper voices extension/expansion thing but this extension has saved my grades
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14664315, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 19005157, a month agoIf you get the addon on mobile it severely limits the voices you can use, you can't even login to your account to access the premium voices or what you paid for. It's obvious that this was made with desktop and laptop use only.
- Rated 2 out of 5by aditya A, a month ago2 star for the voices which sounds like mechanical rather human. except that every thing is fine
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18960744, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Eris, a month ago" Supports 40+ languages." and it's mostly different versions of English.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Marty, 2 months agoThe update from June 30, 2025, did not fix the error either. Whenever I want to listen to something on the Internet, the error message “Not allowed error” always appears. I use the Google Translate German voice. Now, I'm fed up. I'm definitely going to uninstall this extension now.