Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
63 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by big boom, 2 months agoI'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 3 out of 5by Tom, 3 months agoSolid 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 3 out of 5by Mike Evans, 4 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12148057, 5 months agoSometimes stop and pause do not work (geeks for geeks dot org) even after reloading page. Also, would be nice to change voices.
- Rated 3 out of 5by whitevamp, 5 months agoseams to be a decent app, except it will not load the extra MS voices I have installed through accessibility > narrator will only load the default 4 voice packs, the default 4 voice packs suck, thats built into winblows. would like to see it pick up these extra voice packs.
- Rated 3 out of 5by BeLuna, 6 months agoI wish it would have a translator build in to translate first the text to German.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Niv, 7 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18155226, 8 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17934712, 9 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Marooned, 10 months agoQuite handful however, keyboard shortcuts does not work at all. I've tried a few different ones and non of them activated text to speech. The only way working for me is to select the text and use context menu. Also the voices are very robotic but I assume it's just using those embedded in Windows so it's not the issue of the extension itself.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Extended Player, a year agowhy can't i tap on "Singin to use Premium Voices"? It does nothing when i tap it in the Extention's settings screen! Now i'm trying to figure out how to get it back to original out how to get back onto lame default voices.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Dollique, a year agoWorks, but only for english. When there are japanese characters (Hiragana) in the text the voice will skip them.
Also would be nice if the speed could be adjusted directly when it's reading and not only in the settings. - Rated 3 out of 5by mz2007, a year agoNie działa na androidzie firefox 124.2
Nie wiadomo jak sterować rozszerzeniem - Rated 3 out of 5by suzyjak, a year agoIt kept reading the same paragraph over and over again, so I tried to stop it !
I pressed stop-
Ishut down Firefox-
I closed every window-
I couldn't get it to stop-
Finally I had to restart my phone. That worked ツ - Rated 3 out of 5by Messenger, a year agoIt is very successful, very useful, but when I select the text and open the contex menu, the browser freezes. This problem occurred after Firefox 84 release. I hope you take this improvement seriously and fix the problem. Thanks.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12148978, a year agoI've identified one significant problem using this add-on. That problem is that this add-on opens in a new window. It should simply open in a new tab, if it has to open a new anything at all. When an add-on opens a new window, if the user closes out the prior window with all his tabs, leaving the read aloud window open, it risks the danger of the user's prior session being wiped out, with all his tabs going with it, and when the user invokes Firefox again, all he gets is the window opened by read aloud. Unfortunately, my experience is that add-ons which claim to record and purportedly allow the reloading of prior sessions, meaning a set of tabs, simply do not work reliably when a new window has been opened.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Toni, 2 years agoWorked beautiful for months, now choppy. Will start reading and then stop. Tried everything to correct, updated my browser, reinstalled the addon...same result. Disappointed, need to stop wasting my time and install another tool.
Edit - tried other text to speech apps available thru firefox, they were awful. Back and hoping the issue will disappear. - Rated 3 out of 5by Display Name, 2 years agoFeature requests/suggestions
1. Most desired/important:
a. Please code it so speech doesn't stop when adjusting the speed during playback
b. Please add keyboard shortcuts to increase and decrease speed
2. Helpful:
a. Please allow users to set their own custom keys for the keyboard shortcuts
b. Please allow users to mark their preferred voices as 'Favorites' and group all favorites on the top of the drop-down list.
c. Please add keyboard shortcuts for changing the current voice to other voices added to the user's favorites
e.g.,
Voice1: Alt/Option + 1
Voice2: Alt/Option + 2
etc.
OR
Next favorite voice: Alt/Option + ]
Previous favorite voice: Alt/Option + [ - Rated 3 out of 5by Shivaa212, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Minecraftchest1, 2 years agoWorks ok, but requires using the google assistant voice which I don't like if I don't pay.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Hossein, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13549919, 3 years agoThere are plenty of websites that will read text aloud so I thought this would be about that quality. The voice is awful. Like really bad. It technically does the job so 3 stars but I'd sooner just end up copying the text into a site without a terrible voice. It's like a beta Microsoft Sam from Windows 3.1 circa 1992
- Rated 3 out of 5by Esteeve, 3 years agoThough it works fine (mostly anyway), The interface is rather bland and unattractive. And the stop button does not work.