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ReadX Text To Speech by Dave

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Review by Firefox user 18221688
by Firefox user 18221688, a year ago
10 reviews
  • by LogLauncher, 15 days ago
    Great add-on! Works great on mobile which is where I wanted it.
    The ability to replace things with a Regex is something that I can't live without anymore.

    No longer relevant:
    My only complaint is that the RegEx seems to be case insensitive or does not support all features of regex. If it could be made case sensitive that would be awesome!

    Developer response

    posted 13 days ago
    I wrote the RegEx feature to be case-insensitive by default, as it uses the =>gmi flag.
    Add =>gm at the end and it will be case sensitive.


    For example,

    #RegEx=>a=>b will be case insensitive and replace all letters a with b
    #RegEx=>a=>b=>gm will be case sensitive and use the global and multiline flags.

    Note
    You can use \b word boundaries, so it only replaced whole words.
    A great place to experiment with RegEx to see what it does is RegEx101 website.
  • by hackerb9, 3 months ago
    ReadX is currently the only TTS extension that works properly in Firefox/Android. You'd think that the alternative, ReadAloud, would be better since it is marked as recommended by Mozilla and has high quality voices, but that extension is unusable due to bugs.

    ReadX is no frills and stable. I can stop it and start it anywhere in the page. The built-in voice is lousy, but understandable. I wish it could use Android's native TTS voices as I have the open source Piper voices installed and they sound fantastic. Still, until that is possible, this is what I'll use.

    Developer response

    posted 2 months ago
    You could get Piper for Android by installing the TTS engine APK and change settings to use it as the default TTS engine. from https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/apk-engine-cn.html

    The downside to this method is It runs locally, it's not fast, and it uses a lot of battery power.
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  • by Firefox user 18390850, 4 months ago
    My God! This really works on android ! an short click and...voila! Only 40 users...
  • by Firefox user 14259542, 10 months ago
    Need 4x speed..
  • by Firefox user 14009093, a year ago
    Refuses to start.
  • by MatthewJames, 2 years ago
    This text-to-speech add-on is only so-so okay at best compared to the others! Kindly please add more language support and shortcut keys!
  • by Firefox user 10447271, 3 years ago