Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
619 reviews
- by Misha, 8 months agoRated 1 out of 5Have to approve permissions EVERY TIME you use it. awful. just copy paste into another website's TTS reader
- by User FF238349, 8 months agoRated 1 out of 5This extension promoted anti-vaxx agenda. GitHub issue #232 asking for explanation has been deleted, but is available on archive.
- by Kyungjoon Lee, 8 months agoRated 1 out of 5
- by Firefox user 13773476, 8 months agoRated 2 out of 5
- by Reepus, 8 months agoRated 1 out of 5
- by Firefox user 17042681, 8 months agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 16108200, 8 months agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14758898, 8 months agoRated 4 out of 5
- by Atakan, 8 months agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 17037586, 8 months agoRated 5 out of 5Just what I needed when I didn't have time to read an intriguing article while I was on a work deadline. Thank you! =:xB
- by DaisyTheSpaceCat, 8 months agoRated 4 out of 5great tool. shortcuts dont work on mac os (no alt key). no way to edit shortcuts.
- by Ecks-Dee, 8 months agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 17027718, 8 months agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 15629721, 9 months agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 17014763, 9 months agoRated 3 out of 5can't read or detect text that were scanned like a photo
- by hawk999, 9 months agoRated 1 out of 5I loved using this but now i guess there has been an update and i cant use the TTS voice i have on my PC anymore, When i first started using this there was an option to use the voice i had on my PC now that option is gone, I hate all these voices... Let me use the TTS voice i have.
Developer response
posted 9 months agoHi there, a recent Windows update has disappeared all SAPI voices from all browsers, not just Firefox. This affects not only Read Aloud but any addons or website cannot access your SAPI voices. Unfortunately we have found no workaround to this issue at this time. - by mmm111111111, 9 months agoRated 1 out of 5
- by Petr F., 9 months agoRated 5 out of 5Fixed Google Translate on Firefox 91.0.2 and Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader 1.45.1
Repair instructions - https://ulozto.cz/file/9yZs7Shk0LoQ/repair-read-aloud-a-text-to-speech-voice-reader-zip - by Firefox user 17006112, 9 months agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Robert R., 9 months agoRated 3 out of 5
- by Firefox user 16987569, 9 months agoRated 3 out of 5Version 1.45
The add-on says: "You need to grant additional permissions to enable Google Translate voices." But when you click at the underlined "permissions", it leads nowhere. - by OneSource, 9 months agoRated 3 out of 5It is kind of sad that Firefox, unlike Microsoft Edge, needs an extension to read text on a page. That is one of my top 10 reasons why I use Edge in the first place.
Developer response
posted 9 months agoHello OneSource, please give Firefox a 3-star rating for not having built-in TTS, rather than the addon that's trying to make up for its deficiency - by Firefox user 16912092, 9 months agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 12648956, 10 months agoRated 3 out of 5Starting off with the default voice I felt it will be a 1 star rating. I went through many voice options and they are pretty much all robotic and of low sound quality. The real slap in the face occurs when selecting a Google standard voice, you need to grant extra permissions which is fine and you are redirected to Google's text to speech site (https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/#put-text-to-speech-into-action)
The voice on the Google site (wavenet-d) is what most people would enjoy, very natural and of high sound quality BUT it is not what you then using this addon.
This addon does what it says on the tin, >eat bean every day 8-/
Fad/FartDeveloper response
posted 9 months agoHi there, Google charges $16/million characters for Wavenet voices. Going through that permission process is the only way to get it for free, albeit for a limited time. This text-to-speech technology is still very new, that's why Google and others charge a lot of money for it. But we expect it will become a commodity in the future. Microsoft Edge indeed already provides some very high quality TTS voices for free with its browser.