Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
Review by Firefox user 14522916
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefox user 14522916, 'n jaar geledeI'm glad this exists, before this extension I had trouble finding anything that worked. This seems to work and grab the text I want it to. The text to speech is pretty poor, it's not like newer Android that almost sounds human. It sounds VERY robotic. But, it's intelligible. And it's free. And it's available. So I appreciate its existence.
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- Rated 3 out of 5by big boom, 2 ure geledeI've noticed an issue with the way the Google Translate Bengali voice feature pronounces numerical values in English. Specifically, when the Bengali voice reads out English phrases containing numbers, the pronunciation of those numerical values is inaccurate.
For example, when the Bengali voice reads '24 hours', it pronounces it as 'chabbish (২৪) hours', where 'chabbish' is the direct Bengali pronunciation of the number '24', rather than the proper English pronunciation.
This problem seems to occur consistently across all numerical values when using the Google Translate Bengali voice. I was hoping you could provide guidance on how this numerical pronunciation accuracy could be improved within the Bengali voice feature. Having the Bengali voice deliver the correct English pronunciations for numbers would greatly help me. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14488726, 2 dae gelede
- Rated 5 out of 5by sxravan, 3 dae gelede
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kevin, 3 dae gelede
- Rated 5 out of 5by Damian, 5 dae gelede
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16177882, 7 dae gelede
- Rated 1 out of 5by sfny, 10 dae geledeConstantly asking to change permissions on Android. It became so annoying I had to remove it altogether.
- Rated 4 out of 5by hunsai, 14 dae gelede
- Rated 5 out of 5by Michael J, 14 dae gelede
- Rated 2 out of 5by max.tela, 17 dae geledeIt is a cool idea and helps a lot with my dyslexia. But it works properly less than half of the time.
1. Detecting the text correctly, especially on websites where text is separated by other content or when there are multiple columns.
2. Often the reading out does not stop when click pause or stop, I have to close all Firefox windows to make the reading out stop. - Rated 5 out of 5by Federico Calzoni, 21 dae geledePiper's voices are really good. I really appreciate the automatic language selection.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13284157, 'n maand gelede
- Rated 5 out of 5by LuisFer, 'n maand gelede
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15621291, 'n maand geledeThe voice is good, but the controls don't do jack. The pause button does absolutely nothing ever, and the second time I tried the add on the highlighted text didn't match what was being read (no idea where in the document it was reading from) and this time I had to close the browser entirely to make it stop reading.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Paul Newsom, 'n maand gelede
- Rated 3 out of 5by Tom, 'n maand geledeSolid add-on, but the fact that you need to have an entire tab open in order to use the new piper.ttstool voices makes the add-on much less convenient
- Rated 4 out of 5by CrubNine, 'n maand gelede1.68 update is leaving a residue static sound whenever there is text loaded in the extension. This is distracting and making the pause feature unusable for me.
Edit: I tried out older versions and retried the new one and the problem went away. No idea what was causing it. I encountered another bug however with the new "Piper" feature, the extension was not able to load the manager page where you install the voices. It worked on Brave though (I use LibreWolf)
Edit2: Static sound problem came back. I decided to revert back and stay in version 1.66 No longer experience the issue on that version. - Rated 5 out of 5by stelgado, 'n maand geledeAdding the piper voices is a game changer!! Thank you Dev.
Initially, I was pretty unhappy with the robotic voices and decided to read the reviews and found the same complaints. Then I saw that there was an update a week ago and, lo and behold, you can now add custom voices from piper that sound so much more human. It's a night and day difference. Makes this so much more worth it now. Even though it's still in the experimental phase, it works just fine for me.
I urge everyone to try it out in settings. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18349635, 'n maand gelede
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18355450, 2 maande geledeThe default voice is unintelligible and the other voices are not much better. This is a joke of an app.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18301993, 2 maande gelede
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18345139, 2 maande gelede
- Rated 3 out of 5by Mike Evans, 2 maande gelede