Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
Review by 170fin
Rated 4 out of 5
by 170fin, 6 years agoThis was a 4 Star App (IMO) but lately a lot of the voice options I've been using have been scrubbed & It's getting to the stage where there's only one or two left that I'll use & should they too be scrubbed, I'll look for another App.
Voices can be purchased under Premium/Custom options but this App isn't up to purchase grade.
If a few features were added, I'd certainly consider purchasing.
I'm beginning to think each 'free' voice has a finite amount of text before it's scrubbed - if this is the case I'll return a 1 Star, leave this review as is & move on.
Well I am still using this App 3 years+ later so it's a 4/5 star application for sure - just at this moment it appears to be frozen?
OK, it is working again after I closed out and restarted. I reported the issue to you.
Voices can be purchased under Premium/Custom options but this App isn't up to purchase grade.
If a few features were added, I'd certainly consider purchasing.
I'm beginning to think each 'free' voice has a finite amount of text before it's scrubbed - if this is the case I'll return a 1 Star, leave this review as is & move on.
Well I am still using this App 3 years+ later so it's a 4/5 star application for sure - just at this moment it appears to be frozen?
OK, it is working again after I closed out and restarted. I reported the issue to you.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoPlease read our blog to understand how we're providing you these voices: http://blog.readaloud.app/2018/10/the-state-of-text-to-speech-technology.html
The free voices are provided courtesy of Google and IBM. If you run into a limit, it's probably imposed by those companies. You could use the Custom options to pay for your own usage of the premium voices.
The free voices are provided courtesy of Google and IBM. If you run into a limit, it's probably imposed by those companies. You could use the Custom options to pay for your own usage of the premium voices.
982 reviews
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Doctor, 7 days agoVoice is too fast and sounds horrible that it is hard to understand.
- Rated 5 out of 5by dwzi, 8 days agogreat for what i needed it for. love the piper add-on, it's very helpful and a little easier on the ears
- Rated 5 out of 5by Qtsuin, 11 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16685128, 14 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18503847, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by niepiekm, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by marcos, 24 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18485801, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18486343, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by vampstamp, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18455911, a month agoAll the good voices are locked behind a subscription.
The ones that are available in Edge for free...
So scam extension - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15149545, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18480144, a month agoWas working well under Linux until recently, when the voice started sounding like a neck box, like other reports
- Rated 4 out of 5by zxcubed, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18251228, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18471876, a month agothe voice sounds like it has emphysima and is speeking through a neck box. Why?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15773329, a month agoMakes it so you cant copy and paste in any other application. The voices are grating and annoying to listen to. Unfortunately I havent found anything else with a better voice. The option to change voices other then the first few dont work having you run a script that doesnt work and having you basically write your own code to make the others work.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13561607, a month agoOnly 1 voice available, which sounds *very* robotic and hard to listen to.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ahmed14410, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17983590, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by CenterJoseph, 2 months ago