Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
1,201 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Martina, 10 months agoUsed to work great, I do not mind robotic voices as long as my eyes get a rest. But last few days it is barely usable, it is not reading paragraph I click on, but it reads everything from the start, or does reads whole paragraphs on every section I click. It used to skip immediately where I wanted. It does not stop when I click stop, nor pause. It highlights different sections than it reads. Removing and adding the add on again did not hep. On average, I rate 3 stars due to previous good experience, but it is no longer usable for me.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Nahuel, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tyler, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Peter, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kambiz, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DiegoC, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by anthony.fordjr, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MozBruttoDev, 10 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by k0ns0l, 10 months agoIt appears I can no longer install a custom voice :/
Activity log is showing "TypeError: Error in input stream" even after a 100% install status. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18740215, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mr.DAnte Montel Mclaughlin, 10 months ago
Developer response
posted 10 months agoPlease right click the Read Aloud icon and choose Options, then you can choose from a variety of voices, including the new Piper voices powered by machine learning.- Rated 5 out of 5by Dedy Hidayat, 10 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by techguru12, a year agoJust robotic terrible voice which is there whatever I choose, reinstalling ... nothing works!! awfull
- Rated 1 out of 5by Hashimx10, a year agoeven talkit from windows 98 is still much better than this one.
- Rated 3 out of 5by MC, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18462716, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jonsmon, a year agoThis addon works quite well on my PC.
For those complaining about the robotic sounding voice... Try switching to "GoogleTranslate English" voice or one of Google's other voices. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18418147, a year agoIt's gotten worse. It still works, but it randomly stops sometimes then you only have to start over at the top of the text. It used to be able to read things to me in the background but it only does that for a few paragraphs and then stops again. Basically, it's buggy and used to work better.
- Rated 4 out of 5by forrest phantom, a year agovery much impressed by its detection of language and pronunciation.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Lucas, a year agoThe good point is that it reads smoothly. It highlights the paragraphs, which is helpful, but not the words being read. Therefore it is difficult for me to know where in the paragraph we are, if I want to start follow the reading at any point of the flow.
It opens a little window on the top right of the browser and this window closes down if you click somewhere else. This is not useful if you like to take notes while being shown where in the text the reading is happening.
No images are shown in that window, only text. Therefore sometimes I don't know to which picture I should look at in the original page (in the text sometimes it says "...as demonstrated in the picture on the left"). I tried to scroll down on the original text whenever I heard that but then the little window would close and I'd lost myself once again. Too much cognitive load.
In my opinion it would be best if the read aloud took place in the original page, not in a popup window.