Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
140 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16113765, duela 12 egunThe voice isn't amazing at all... but it's good enough until there's a better alternative for firefox
- Rated 4 out of 5by Carlisle Mike Wick, duela 19 egun
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12210722, duela 21 egun
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13604038, duela 24 egun
- Rated 4 out of 5by whalemonster, duela hilabete bat
- Rated 4 out of 5by hunsai, duela hilabete bat
- Rated 4 out of 5by CrubNine, duela 2 hilabete1.68 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. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18331836, duela 3 hilabeteUsed 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. - Rated 4 out of 5by Saydine, duela 3 hilabete
- Rated 4 out of 5by Simon, duela 4 hilabetePlease look into NovelAI support.
Some AI Chatbot sites are able to access NovelAI's voice feature when you add their API key, so don't think it should be impossible here. - Rated 4 out of 5by chips, duela 6 hilabete
- Rated 4 out of 5by SomeAB, duela 6 hilabeteTL: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 4 out of 5by Glenn Hefley, duela 6 hilabete
- Rated 4 out of 5by Olivergrace139, duela 7 hilabeteA little more robotic than possible but a lot faster than having to manually copy and paste text into a website which is all I want in an add-on like this. Also allows for speed change which is a plus.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18146491, duela 7 hilabete
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14764186, duela 7 hilabeteÖzellikle gözleriniz okurken rahatsız oluyor ve yoruluyorsa tek alternatifiniz gibi duruyor.
Keşke seslendirmesi daha doğal olsaydı ama bu da işinizi görüyor. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18140816, duela 7 hilabeteIf I could get this tts app for offline use on Linux, I'd be over the moon :o))
Dunno why but today it only plays robotic voices :o( - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16658719, duela 7 hilabeteGreat app for getting through articles when you don't feel like reading or have something to do while doing so. For some reason, the voice in the Firefox version sounds way off from the Chrome one. I like the Chrome one more. The settings are the same, I don't know why it's like that. But overall, good app.
- Rated 4 out of 5by astronomy-domine, duela 9 hilabeteThis extension can be janky at times, but overall works well and is my favorite text-to-speech extension to use
- Rated 4 out of 5by Atu Everyday, duela 10 hilabete
- Rated 4 out of 5by Seth Falco, duela urte bat
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14206631, duela urte bat