Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
964 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6674636, 6 kuud tagasi
- Rated 4 out of 5by chips, 6 kuud tagasi
- Rated 3 out of 5by Niv, 6 kuud tagasi
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17507252, 6 kuud tagasi
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bruno, 6 kuud tagasi
- Rated 1 out of 5by say-hi, 6 kuud tagasi
- Rated 4 out of 5by SomeAB, 6 kuud tagasiTL:DR - I personally find MS Zira voice with 75% speed, 100% pitch, to be good enough for most scenarios. Default settings sound horrible, but can be tweaked, that is what I mean.
Okay overall with all things considered, this is currently among the most easy to use TTS (Text to Speech) addons
Pros:
- Easy to use, works fine with a google translated page, easily identifies what you want to read
- You can use Google Wavenet, Amazon Polly & IBM Watson voices with it, if you have API access (all 3 of them have a free tier)
- Has a dark background pop-up that shows the text in a simple readable format alongside speech
Cons:
- Biggest con is that it doesn't use the new Microsoft voices that come with Windows Narrator. It only uses the old Zira, Adam, voices which are of lower quality.
- No way to add a custom Offline voice model. The option of 'Custom Voice is for the online APIs'
- I heard somewhere, that even in offline mode, it does uses some google apis, but haven't checked myself. Given it is recommended by Mozilla officially, I guess its alright for non-security scenarios. - Rated 1 out of 5by Hector Rodriguez, 6 kuud tagasi
- Rated 1 out of 5by User, 6 kuud tagasi
- Rated 4 out of 5by Glenn Hefley, 6 kuud tagasi
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18190410, 6 kuud tagasiThis is a great plug in. Request developer to add open AI TTS support.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Agus, 6 kuud tagasi
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12339027, 6 kuud tagasiLove this feature. Especially since I'm a poor reader.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Distant Fire, 6 kuud tagasiHilariously bad. Literally sounds like a backyard full of dogs barking. Not a single word was discernible.
- Rated 1 out of 5by b b b b bb b, 6 kuud tagasiThis add-on claims to have "offline" voices which are "never sent to the internet".
However if you block access to the servers it contacts using a firewall:
1) You can see tons of access sent to "support.readaloud.app" and "chart.googleapis.com"
2) The text to speech stops working entirely. It won't read at all and says "Phone not connected". You can't even use the example offline test voice in configurations panel.
How is this even remotely offline if it can't work when not connected to the internet and their servers in particular? - Rated 5 out of 5by Shaun, 6 kuud tagasi
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18181275, 7 kuud tagasi
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16948302, 7 kuud tagasi
- Rated 5 out of 5by wildlife9910, 7 kuud tagasi
- Rated 1 out of 5by João Vitor, 7 kuud tagasi
- Rated 1 out of 5by Edgard Sampaio, 7 kuud tagasiBro, 2024 with AI and all we got this google roboto voices? fr?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12217291, 7 kuud tagasi
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18164482, 7 kuud tagasi
- Rated 1 out of 5by Tooth, 7 kuud tagasiThe version in Edge is fantastic, so I figured this one would be as well. No. Just Microsoft Sam quality voices.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Enteriesoft - Darknight, 7 kuud tagasi