Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
Review by PH
Rated 4 out of 5
by PH, 4 years agoJust started to use; will update my review over the time.
Generally it reads most English mechanically correct... could be better.
Areas for improvement:
1. with livelier intonation.
2. The currency sign "¥" is not just for Japanese Yen, but also Chinese RMB... you know?
3. UI does not function properly on the flight: it does not switch voice promptly.
4. "Pause" and "Stop" buttons do not work... I have to terminate all browser sessions, not just the webpage it works on.
Generally it reads most English mechanically correct... could be better.
Areas for improvement:
1. with livelier intonation.
2. The currency sign "¥" is not just for Japanese Yen, but also Chinese RMB... you know?
3. UI does not function properly on the flight: it does not switch voice promptly.
4. "Pause" and "Stop" buttons do not work... I have to terminate all browser sessions, not just the webpage it works on.
952 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Carlisle Mike Wick, 21 hours ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jan, 2 days agoBABABABABABABABABABABA
it just simply ridiculous guys. Is this a joke or somehting? It's probably my fault, but this sounds 10 times worse as stephen hawking. Or maybe like one of Edison's first phonograph recordings Mawawary hawawad alala liwiwiwttle lawawawam. Come on.. - Rated 1 out of 5by honza1616, 3 days agoIn my language (Czech), it's like listening to a robot. Try the Edge browser, it has the reader already installed and it's perfect.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12210722, 3 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Fulmer, 6 days agoEvery time I start it, it wants me to grant additional permissions. Additional? I gave it the permissions it needed when I ran it the first time so why do I have to give it additional permissions every day I run it? I want it to be given all the permissions it needs to run and make that permanent. Instead, you have to go through a tedious rigmerole of opening a webpage, scrolling down and clicking on a speak button, then tick a box saying you are not a robot EVERY TIME you use it! No! I won't do that.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13604038, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by WalterHo, 7 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by whalemonster, 8 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17564255, 8 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by big boom, 13 days agoI'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 jjpatricio, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by sxravan, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kevin, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Damian, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16177882, 20 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by sfny, 23 days agoConstantly asking to change permissions on Android. It became so annoying I had to remove it altogether.
- Rated 4 out of 5by hunsai, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Michael J, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by max.tela, a month agoIt 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, a month agoPiper's voices are really good. I really appreciate the automatic language selection.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13284157, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by LuisFer, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15621291, a month agoThe 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, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Tom, 2 months agoSolid 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