Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
Review by SomeAB
Rated 4 out of 5
by SomeAB, 6 months agoTL: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.
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.
970 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18455911, 12 hours agoAll the good voices are locked behind a subscription.
The ones that are available in Edge for free...
So scam extension - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15149545, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18480144, 2 days agoWas working well under Linux until recently, when the voice started sounding like a neck box, like other reports
- Rated 4 out of 5by zxcubed, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18251228, 4 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18471876, 8 days agothe voice sounds like it has emphysima and is speeking through a neck box. Why?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15773329, 8 days agoMakes it so you cant copy and paste in any other application. The voices are grating and annoying to listen to. Unfortunately I havent found anything else with a better voice. The option to change voices other then the first few dont work having you run a script that doesnt work and having you basically write your own code to make the others work.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13561607, 16 days agoOnly 1 voice available, which sounds *very* robotic and hard to listen to.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ahmed14410, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17983590, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by CenterJoseph, 21 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Vich, 22 days agoAsks 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, 22 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16113765, 22 days agoThe 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, 25 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14400720, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Carlisle Mike Wick, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jan, a month agoBABABABABABABABABABABA
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, a month agoIn 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, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Fulmer, a month agoEvery 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, a month ago