Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
1,058 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14758898, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Atakan, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17037586, 3 years agoJust what I needed when I didn't have time to read an intriguing article while I was on a work deadline. Thank you! =:xB
- Rated 4 out of 5by DaisyTheSpaceCat, 3 years agogreat tool. shortcuts dont work on mac os (no alt key). no way to edit shortcuts.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ecks-Dee, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17027718, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15629721, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17014763, 3 years agocan't read or detect text that were scanned like a photo
- Rated 1 out of 5by hawk999, 3 years agoI loved using this but now i guess there has been an update and i cant use the TTS voice i have on my PC anymore, When i first started using this there was an option to use the voice i had on my PC now that option is gone, I hate all these voices... Let me use the TTS voice i have.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHi there, a recent Windows update has disappeared all SAPI voices from all browsers, not just Firefox. This affects not only Read Aloud but any addons or website cannot access your SAPI voices. Unfortunately we have found no workaround to this issue at this time. - Rated 1 out of 5by mmm111111111, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Petr F., 3 years agoFixed Google Translate on Firefox 91.0.2 and Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader 1.45.1
Repair instructions - https://ulozto.cz/file/9yZs7Shk0LoQ/repair-read-aloud-a-text-to-speech-voice-reader-zip - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17006112, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Robert R., 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by OneSource, 3 years agoIt is kind of sad that Firefox, unlike Microsoft Edge, needs an extension to read text on a page. That is one of my top 10 reasons why I use Edge in the first place.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHello OneSource, please give Firefox a 3-star rating for not having built-in TTS, rather than the addon that's trying to make up for its deficiency - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16912092, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12648956, 3 years agoStarting off with the default voice I felt it will be a 1 star rating. I went through many voice options and they are pretty much all robotic and of low sound quality. The real slap in the face occurs when selecting a Google standard voice, you need to grant extra permissions which is fine and you are redirected to Google's text to speech site (https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/#put-text-to-speech-into-action)
The voice on the Google site (wavenet-d) is what most people would enjoy, very natural and of high sound quality BUT it is not what you then using this addon.
This addon does what it says on the tin, >eat bean every day 8-/
Fad/FartDeveloper response
posted 3 years agoHi there, Google charges $16/million characters for Wavenet voices. Going through that permission process is the only way to get it for free, albeit for a limited time. This text-to-speech technology is still very new, that's why Google and others charge a lot of money for it. But we expect it will become a commodity in the future. Microsoft Edge indeed already provides some very high quality TTS voices for free with its browser. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16096579, 3 years agoThe add-on is great and overall it works very well. You can customize the speech speed and pitch, stop, and rewind it. That said, it does have an issue on some linux distributions where it crashes the pulseaudio driver (but not all). It's not clear why this happens, but when it does the driver has to be restarted and then the plugin doesn't work again until a reboot. It's a bit of a niche problem so I only took off one star for it. That said, I put in a bug report for it and have heard nothing back from the dev despite a patch being released after my bug report.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Angelo, 3 years agoText to speech voice is too robotic, it gets tiring very quick
- Rated 5 out of 5by Anto, 3 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13556289, 3 years agoGood when it works, which is not often.
Can't go a single day without google's voices breaking and requesting to "grant permission/admission" from google's TTS page. - Rated 1 out of 5by Ty, 3 years agoIt works fine but it could be better. My only issue is that it doesn't read some math symbols properly, which is the main reason I installed this extension.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16398130, 3 years ago