Anmeldelser af Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader af LSD Software
Anmeldelse af gwho
Bedømt til 1 ud af 5
af gwho, 4 år sidenabsolute nightmare.
you can tell it to start reading from a new location after it has already started reading.
shortcut hotkeys don't work at all.
there is no shortcut for speed adjust.
it doesn't tell you what voice it's reading with when it's on auto select.
if you press previous, and there is no data loaded in its memory, it'll stop playing. this means you cannot go back farther than the current page. what garbage.
so many other problems that are basic obvious UX design flaws.
How does this have 4 stars? How does anyone use this without tearing their hair out?
If you only ever need to read from beginning to end then i suppose this gets 5 stars.
you can tell it to start reading from a new location after it has already started reading.
shortcut hotkeys don't work at all.
there is no shortcut for speed adjust.
it doesn't tell you what voice it's reading with when it's on auto select.
if you press previous, and there is no data loaded in its memory, it'll stop playing. this means you cannot go back farther than the current page. what garbage.
so many other problems that are basic obvious UX design flaws.
How does this have 4 stars? How does anyone use this without tearing their hair out?
If you only ever need to read from beginning to end then i suppose this gets 5 stars.
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- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 13284157, 3 dage siden
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af LuisFer, 6 dage siden
- Bedømt til 2 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 15621291, 9 dage sidenThe 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.
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Paul Newsom, 14 dage siden
- Bedømt til 3 ud af 5af Tom, 15 dage sidenSolid 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
- Bedømt til 4 ud af 5af CrubNine, 16 dage siden1.68 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. - Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af stelgado, 18 dage sidenAdding 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. - Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 18349635, 21 dage siden
- Bedømt til 1 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 18355450, 23 dage sidenThe default voice is unintelligible and the other voices are not much better. This is a joke of an app.
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 18301993, 25 dage siden
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 18345139, en måned siden
- Bedømt til 3 ud af 5af Mike Evans, en måned siden
- Bedømt til 1 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 18316759, en måned siden
- Bedømt til 4 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 18331836, en måned sidenUsed this for like years to make my novels audiobooks and the desktop browser version of it works pretty well. IMO, the only good TTS voice is the microsoft zira one lol. Works very well for what it is, but the in-built firefox reader also has a TTS function, which is essentially the same thing. I don't discourage people from using this extension though, since it comes in handy when you just need one specific section TTS'd and it's quicker to activate than the in-built one.
An issue I found only on the desktop browser is that the highlighted text would jump ahead of the actual text the extension is reading and it would continue reading the text even if you press 'stop' (only in the case of the jumping highlighted text). Found that if this happens, press 'test' in the settings and the 'stop' after and it'll stop. Kind of annoying though since it happens every so often.
On the other hand, the mobile version of the extension is kinda meh. The issue I mentioned before doesn't seem to exist on mobile but a different one cropped up. On certain sites, or pages within the sites, the TTS randomly decides to change their voice to another. Again, only microsoft zira is listenable so it forces me to just stop the TTS and read manually.
Also, the 'sign in to use premium voices' have never acutally worked for me on mobile. Every time I click 'sign in', nothing appears T_T, lowkey frustrating. And apart from the offline voices, all of the voices don't work when I'm running on data. They do work when I'm using someone elses hotspot tho :(. Frustrating since I usually want to use mobile TTS when I'm out and about. - Bedømt til 4 ud af 5af Saydine, en måned siden
- Bedømt til 1 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 18285094, 2 måneder sidenIn Dutch it just uses the Microsoft TTS-voice (Frank), which is already build in in Firefox itself, rendering this extension completely useless. The UI adds nothing special, you can't even choose where you want it to start reading.
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af floating-table, 2 måneder sidenRecently, the extension has been acting up on Firefox, constantly throwing the `NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_METADATA_ERR` error. There's nothing wrong with the base64 audio being received, I verified that. Somehow it's triggering an old bug in Firefox I think, mentioned in this StackOverflow post: httpsstackoverflowcom/questions/44200990/html5-audio-player-in-firefox-is-not-working
EDIT: I found the issue. It was me. I diff'd my prefsjs file with a default one. Found out a sus config I don't remember changing. media.ffvpx.enabled was set to false. Setting it to true again fixed it. I am not sure why, maybe the decoding logic lives there..? - Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Yuri M., 2 måneder siden
- Bedømt til 2 ud af 5af Indigetes, 2 måneder sidenIt sort of works, except when it doesn't. Not taking into account how robotic it sounds, in just a few minutes I got 2 instances reading the web, each at a different point and no way to stop either other than closing the browser.
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Joy Cuspide, 2 måneder siden
- Bedømt til 3 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 12148057, 2 måneder sidenSometimes stop and pause do not work (geeks for geeks dot org) even after reloading page. Also, would be nice to change voices.
- Bedømt til 1 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 18304762, 2 måneder sidenHorrible, garbled, unintelligible robotic voices. Way to much reverb, too fast and they all sound alike. Chrome's built in text to speech is a hundred times better and it is just a dull monotone, but at least you can understand it.