Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
Review by SomeAB
Rated 4 out of 5
by SomeAB, pirms 6 mēnešiemTL: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.
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.
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- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13561607, pirms 3 dienāmOnly 1 voice available, which sounds *very* robotic and hard to listen to.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ahmed14410, pirms 6 dienām
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17983590, pirms 7 dienām
- Rated 5 out of 5by CenterJoseph, pirms 9 dienām
- Rated 1 out of 5by Vich, pirms 9 dienāmAsks me to grant additional permissions every half 15 minutes. It is a waste of time and a terrible distraction.
Got to new page, click few buttons, come back and then reload your page. REALLY??? - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18273814, pirms 9 dienām
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16113765, pirms 9 dienāmThe voice isn't amazing at all... but it's good enough until there's a better alternative for firefox
- Rated 5 out of 5by Андрей, pirms 12 dienām
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14400720, pirms 13 dienām
- Rated 4 out of 5by Carlisle Mike Wick, pirms 16 dienām
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jan, pirms 17 dienāmBABABABABABABABABABABA
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, pirms 18 dienāmIn 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, pirms 19 dienām
- Rated 1 out of 5by Fulmer, pirms 21 dienasEvery 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, pirms 22 dienām
- Rated 5 out of 5by WalterHo, pirms 23 dienām
- Rated 4 out of 5by whalemonster, pirms 24 dienām
- Rated 3 out of 5by big boom, pirms mēnešaI'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, pirms mēneša
- Rated 5 out of 5by sxravan, pirms mēneša
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kevin, pirms mēneša
- Rated 5 out of 5by Damian, pirms mēneša
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16177882, pirms mēneša