Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
Review by Ashley
Rated 4 out of 5
by Ashley, sena iluIt works, but it's not what I expected. I'm using Firefox for Android on a Samsung Galaxy Note 10+.
In order to have text read aloud, you need to either highlight text yourself or just be on the page you want read (in its entirety, with all headings & image description text, etc) and then you trigger the add-on in the browser's vertical elipsis menu (or is it a skinny hamburger?). Then, you will be in a totally new tab with only the text from the page and a pause/play and settings button.
I was hoping the "popup" option under this addon's settings would allow me to just highlight some paragraphs I want read, for instance, long-press it and be able to choose "read aloud" or something like that. Maybe I'd even see a tiny popup once triggered with the pause/play controls or it would be in the toolbar.
I ran into the issue that I couldn't get the voice to stop talking after pressing stop, changing tabs, and even closing Firefox (had to kill Firefox manually in my phone's "app info"). It would be great to be able to hear the reading after leaving a tab, but the ability to pause & start again are obviously important as well.
In order to have text read aloud, you need to either highlight text yourself or just be on the page you want read (in its entirety, with all headings & image description text, etc) and then you trigger the add-on in the browser's vertical elipsis menu (or is it a skinny hamburger?). Then, you will be in a totally new tab with only the text from the page and a pause/play and settings button.
I was hoping the "popup" option under this addon's settings would allow me to just highlight some paragraphs I want read, for instance, long-press it and be able to choose "read aloud" or something like that. Maybe I'd even see a tiny popup once triggered with the pause/play controls or it would be in the toolbar.
I ran into the issue that I couldn't get the voice to stop talking after pressing stop, changing tabs, and even closing Firefox (had to kill Firefox manually in my phone's "app info"). It would be great to be able to hear the reading after leaving a tab, but the ability to pause & start again are obviously important as well.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by ahmed14410, 2 ġranet ilu
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17983590, 3 ġranet ilu
- Rated 5 out of 5by CenterJoseph, 5 ġranet ilu
- Rated 1 out of 5by Vich, 5 ġranet iluAsks 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, 5 ġranet ilu
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16113765, 6 ġranet iluThe 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, 9 ġranet ilu
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14400720, 9 ġranet ilu
- Rated 4 out of 5by Carlisle Mike Wick, 13 ġranet ilu
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jan, 14 ġranet iluBABABABABABABABABABABA
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, 15 ġranet iluIn 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, 15 ġranet ilu
- Rated 1 out of 5by Fulmer, 17 ġranet iluEvery 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, 18 ġranet ilu
- Rated 5 out of 5by WalterHo, 19 ġranet ilu
- Rated 4 out of 5by whalemonster, 20 ġranet ilu
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17564255, 20 ġranet ilu
- Rated 3 out of 5by big boom, 25 ġranet iluI'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, xahar ilu
- Rated 5 out of 5by sxravan, xahar ilu
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kevin, xahar ilu
- Rated 5 out of 5by Damian, xahar ilu
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16177882, xahar ilu
- Rated 1 out of 5by sfny, xahar iluConstantly asking to change permissions on Android. It became so annoying I had to remove it altogether.