Since an update a few weeks ago, Talkie unfortunately always stops after a few seconds. I've already looked in the settings and this exact problem is described under "Read longer text". I've tried it with the box activated and deactivated, but it always stops (sometimes in the middle of a sentence or word). I always thought Talkie was great despite the voice and speed, but now it basically doesn't work for me anymore.

Giving this 2 stars because I've got to give the developer cred for making an extension that's robust enough to work with Apple Sonoma. On the other hand, the default voice that comes with the extension is almost unintelligible and you might have to listen to it a couple of times at first before you get the hang of its rhythm. I'm not sure about changing the voice on a PC, but I can say for sure that on an MAC, the way the developer says to do it, well, it doesn't work. If it did this would be a 5 star app and I'd pay for the app!!! I mean seriously. It's really this app or "Read Aloud", and Read Aloud takes about 30 seconds to load the content before it starts to read. This is much faster. It just sounds like total crap.

Please Joel, come back to this project and make some updates. Give the mac users the abilities to select custom voices. I know it would be worth my money.

Here's an idea, make the ability to change basic voices part of the app. I'm talking about low resolution ones. But then add the ability for "premium" voices (Voices that require >200MB of data? For all the voices your system has access to?). You could put these behind a paywall and charge $10.00 for a lifetime subscription to your program. However, that also means that you have to keep your software working. Well, for as long as people were still using it at least. Pretty sweet deal as you'd be the only one with this type of app on Firefox. Joel, I had to search to find your app, there's not much out there that can read to you. It's really great for people with ADHD.

read too fast.

I just tried it once, I gave $5 not because of how much I will use it, I may only use it couple of times, but because this was a really well conceived project and such a great piece of work (I'm not meaning bugs, I have no idea about bugs, but all software has bugs), I'm impressed in this age when so much crap work is being done by hack programmers out of countries where the only reason they are coding is for the money, this a breath of fresh air, a break from the disaster poor coders have introduced into the world in the last 20 years, this is an oasis of good thinking.

SO FUNKTIONIERT ES: Kurz drauf klicken und es kommt kein Ton? Dachte kurz es geht gar nicht, aber beim gedrückt halten kam dann Ton. Per Rechtsklick kann man dann bei "Start/Stop Vorlesen der Auswahl" das ganze so nutzen, wie man es sich eigentlich vorstellt. Etwas umständlicher, aber funktioniert.

The synthesised voice is comically bad and mostly not recognisable as English.

É um atraso de vida disponibilizar uma complemento que seria útil, mas pago ("Talkie Premium") para um navegador que é 100% gratuito.

Smh. Doesn't even work. It won't even stop so i can try again.

Useless. I'm highlighting the text but the stupid reader is not reading it for me.

Gerade erst die freie Version ausprobiert, funktioniert ziemlich gut, liest verständlich auch wissenschaftl. Texte, Abkürzungen meist vernünftig.

Installed, just doesn't work... and can go Premium if you give candies... or money, I can't remember. Whatever, works zero, no sound, buttons not responsive, omg, I need a Mac now!

painfully average.

Simple, eficaz, muy útil. Gracias.
En los países que no podemos (ni podremos en mucho tiempo) compensar a los desarrolladores por la imposibilidad de compra de moneda extranjera, deberíamos aceptar publicidad u otra forma remunerativa.