Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
963 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by chips, 6 сарын өмнө
- Rated 3 out of 5by Niv, 6 сарын өмнө
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17507252, 6 сарын өмнө
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bruno, 6 сарын өмнө
- Rated 1 out of 5by say-hi, 6 сарын өмнө
- Rated 4 out of 5by SomeAB, 6 сарын өмнөTL: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 сарын өмнө
- Rated 1 out of 5by User, 6 сарын өмнө
- Rated 4 out of 5by Glenn Hefley, 6 сарын өмнө
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18190410, 6 сарын өмнөThis is a great plug in. Request developer to add open AI TTS support.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Agus, 6 сарын өмнө
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12339027, 6 сарын өмнөLove this feature. Especially since I'm a poor reader.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Distant Fire, 6 сарын өмнөHilariously 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 сарын өмнөThis 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 сарын өмнө
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18181275, 6 сарын өмнө
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16948302, 6 сарын өмнө
- Rated 5 out of 5by wildlife9910, 6 сарын өмнө
- Rated 1 out of 5by João Vitor, 6 сарын өмнө
- Rated 1 out of 5by Edgard Sampaio, 6 сарын өмнөBro, 2024 with AI and all we got this google roboto voices? fr?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12217291, 7 сарын өмнө
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18164482, 7 сарын өмнө
- Rated 1 out of 5by Tooth, 7 сарын өмнөThe 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 сарын өмнө
- Rated 1 out of 5by Demi, 7 сарын өмнөThe extension reads random parts of the lesson I want it to read, repeats words, and plays many paragraphs at a time. This is the worst read aloud extension I have ever tried using.