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, 2 years agoIt 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 2 out of 5by aditya A, 7 days ago2 star for the voices which sounds like mechanical rather human. except that every thing is fine
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18960744, 8 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Eris, 8 days ago" Supports 40+ languages." and it's mostly different versions of English.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Marty, 15 days agoThe update from July 20, 2025, did not fix the error either. Whenever I want to listen to something on the Internet, the error message “Not allowed error” always appears. I use the Google Translate German voice. Now, I'm fed up. I'm definitely going to uninstall this extension now.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17608639, 16 days agoI'm very happy with read aloud, when I busy I sometimes listen to my articles cause I'm multitasking, definitely looking to support, thanks dev
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19257349, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14200842, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15218163, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Noel Evangelista Esteban philippines, a month agoNoel Evangelista Esteban philippines NE
- Rated 4 out of 5by Błażej, a month agoIf you are Dawid Jasper using this extension will save your life.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19169632, a month agoMerhaba, daha önce kullanmıştım. Şimdi açık görünmesine rağmen uzantıyı bir türlü aktive edemiyorum. Forumda arama yaptım, ayarları kontrol ettim ama bir türlü sorunu tespit edemedim. Nasıl ilerlemeliyim? Destek ekibi veya kullanıcılara yardım amaçlı yazıyorum, teşekkürler.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14949460, a month agoIt's really nice. But the volume is way too low. Can you increase volume much mire?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14526802, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14027372, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by BBQ, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19137349, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by phyophyo, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by whereistruth, 2 months agothe default voice is not that great but if you click on the icon and go to options you can find more voices and you can even buy some but i dont think it will go to the person that wrote the addon but even with the free 1sif you go down the list for a while you will see the 2nd google options and those are better play with the pitch and speed to get them pretty good i dont have the disposal income to be spending on the paid 1s but the test they show seems to be even better ifyou go that route any way hope this helped have fun every 1