Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
Review by Firefox user 16658719
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefox user 16658719, 6 сарын өмнөGreat 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.
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- Rated 3 out of 5by big boom, 2 өдрийн өмнөI'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, 4 өдрийн өмнө
- Rated 5 out of 5by sxravan, 5 өдрийн өмнө
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kevin, 6 өдрийн өмнө
- Rated 5 out of 5by Damian, 8 өдрийн өмнө
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16177882, 9 өдрийн өмнө
- Rated 1 out of 5by sfny, 12 өдрийн өмнөConstantly asking to change permissions on Android. It became so annoying I had to remove it altogether.
- Rated 4 out of 5by hunsai, 16 өдрийн өмнө
- Rated 5 out of 5by Michael J, 16 өдрийн өмнө
- Rated 2 out of 5by max.tela, 19 өдрийн өмнөIt is a cool idea and helps a lot with my dyslexia. But it works properly less than half of the time.
1. Detecting the text correctly, especially on websites where text is separated by other content or when there are multiple columns.
2. Often the reading out does not stop when click pause or stop, I have to close all Firefox windows to make the reading out stop. - Rated 5 out of 5by Federico Calzoni, 23 өдрийн өмнөPiper's voices are really good. I really appreciate the automatic language selection.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13284157, 1 сарын өмнө
- Rated 5 out of 5by LuisFer, 1 сарын өмнө
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15621291, 1 сарын өмнөThe voice is good, but the controls don't do jack. The pause button does absolutely nothing ever, and the second time I tried the add on the highlighted text didn't match what was being read (no idea where in the document it was reading from) and this time I had to close the browser entirely to make it stop reading.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Paul Newsom, 1 сарын өмнө
- Rated 3 out of 5by Tom, 1 сарын өмнөSolid add-on, but the fact that you need to have an entire tab open in order to use the new piper.ttstool voices makes the add-on much less convenient
- Rated 4 out of 5by CrubNine, 1 сарын өмнө1.68 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 5 out of 5by stelgado, 1 сарын өмнөAdding the piper voices is a game changer!! Thank you Dev.
Initially, I was pretty unhappy with the robotic voices and decided to read the reviews and found the same complaints. Then I saw that there was an update a week ago and, lo and behold, you can now add custom voices from piper that sound so much more human. It's a night and day difference. Makes this so much more worth it now. Even though it's still in the experimental phase, it works just fine for me.
I urge everyone to try it out in settings. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18349635, 2 сарын өмнө
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18355450, 2 сарын өмнөThe default voice is unintelligible and the other voices are not much better. This is a joke of an app.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18301993, 2 сарын өмнө
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18345139, 2 сарын өмнө
- Rated 3 out of 5by Mike Evans, 2 сарын өмнө