Reviews for Native text to speech ( tts )
Native text to speech ( tts ) by ulf3000
Review by Mousey Mo
Rated 4 out of 5
by Mousey Mo, 7 years agoI want to start off by saying I use this app a lot. I really like it, but it's gone buggy. I have to do a lot of reading all the time (college student) I this has the most consistently working speech rate function, but occasionally, and I have no idea why, I'll go to use it and the speech rate is back to where it defaults and I can't get it back where I want it. This leaves me stuck taking a lot longer to read everything. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or if it's an issue with the add on or the browser. I really don't want to find a new one, because I'm used to this one.
Additionally, is there any way to make it read an entire article without having to select it first? I have to use a different program for that right now, and I HATE that one because when I try to speed it up, the speech rate is very inconsistent.
Additionally, is there any way to make it read an entire article without having to select it first? I have to use a different program for that right now, and I HATE that one because when I try to speed it up, the speech rate is very inconsistent.
Developer response
posted 7 years agosorry man .. i know what you mean and it didnt happen in the old version .. mozillas implementation of the webspeech engine is still changing from version to version ... and i cannot implement reading a whole site becasue it would read out all the links and otehr useless stuff , there no way to bring consistancy over the many websites that exist
59 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by 敬念法轮大法好远离疫情, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 天灭中共退党团队保平安, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Maestroe, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Razoner, 2 years agoNot bad. It's the best screen reader that I've seen so far for reading multiple paragraphs of text in one sitting.
It does sound robotic, but that's probably because my computer has robotic voices, so that's probably not the fault of the extension itself. - Rated 4 out of 5by Nihil Adest, 3 years agoSeems like a good add on, you just have to right click and use the option below. However, I really don't like that I can't just click the button at the top to activate it. I want to know if this app can be used on google docs cause that's mostly what interests me. Is there any other way it can be activated other than the right click, and if there isn't can you implement one?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16892465, 4 years agoNão percam seus tempos baixando essa atrocidade, não inicia, e nem sequer funciona corretamente, visto que nem as leituras de texto ele executa, mesmo estando com o modo anonimo ativado.
- Rated 5 out of 5by $8N666, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Koutheir, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by uniquew, 4 years ago"Access your data for all websites" why need this permission if other text to speech extensions doesn't require it???
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15127251, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15105122, 4 years agoWork on *buntu/PopOS/Mint/OpenSUSE. Tried with voices from voxin.oralux.net & rhvoice Pause doesn't seem to work. Uses speach-dispatcher (spd-say), so should be the same on other distributions
- Rated 1 out of 5by Salar, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by 峰, 4 years agoI think it's better if there are corresponding language besides the names.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Marios, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Utkarsh, 5 years agodidnt work at all. restarted my broswer as well. no option on highlighting and right-clicking text
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vishal, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by KnOwlEdge, 5 years agoThanks for the time, but it is almost useless.
It can only read selected text, not whole pages, and it can't skip back and forward, it can only be paused and stopped, and only with on screen buttons.
Not practical. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12298493, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jag Agemo, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by kasquer, 5 years agoExactly the type of extension I was looking for. It was working perfectly until I upgraded to windows 10. Now the only problem is whenever you make it read something in a new tab, for some reason it starts reading in a completely different voice. If you stop it and try again it works normally, still a bit irritating though considering I only have 1 voice enabled.
- Rated 4 out of 5by grahamperrin, 5 years agoWhilst the stop button works, the pause button does not.
If it helps, I find pause not working with at least two other extensions:
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/text-to-speech-webext/reviews/1414068/
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/text-to-speech-freeapps/reviews/1494400/
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Also, the name of the installed extension (multilanguagetexttospeechtts) does not match the name here. Can you make it match the name here?
Thanks. - Rated 5 out of 5by xerca, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12337733, 5 years agoDoesn't work. I could not manage to trigger reading. It has an option page with an 'unsorted' language list and an 'unresponding' save button.