Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
Review by Josh
Rated 5 out of 5
by Josh, 6 years agoit works really good. but i'm seeing some errors in the debug screen. i'm no coder so i just googled it. I tried the uninstall reinstall from store. i don't see where its causing me problems, or this might be why It sometimes forgets its permissions from google. either way, i've used this extension for years. thank you. below is the output to my error in case it helps you.
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Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Reading manifest: Error processing background.persistent: Event pages are not currently supported. This will run as a persistent background page.
Reading manifest: Error processing permissions.4: Value "tts" must either: must either [must either [be one of ["clipboardRead", "clipboardWrite", "geolocation", "idle", "notifications"], be one of ["bookmarks"], be one of ["find"], be one of ["history"], be one of ["menus.overrideContext"], be one of ["search"], be one of ["activeTab", "tabs", "tabHide"], be one of ["browserSettings"], be one of ["cookies"], be one of ["downloads", "downloads.open"], be one of ["topSites"], be one of ["webNavigation"], or be one of ["webRequest", "webRequestBlocking"]], be one of ["alarms", "mozillaAddons", "storage", "unlimitedStorage"], be one of ["browsingData"], be one of ["captivePortal"], be one of ["devtools"], be one of ["identity"], be one of ["menus", "contextMenus"], be one of ["pkcs11"], be one of ["geckoProfiler"], be one of ["sessions"], be one of ["contextualIdentities"], be one of ["dns"], be one of ["management"], be one of ["privacy"], be one of ["proxy"], be one of ["nativeMessaging"], be one of ["telemetry"], be one of ["theme"], or match the pattern /^experiments(\.\w+)+$/], or must either [be one of [""], must either [match the pattern /^(https?|wss?|file|ftp|\*):\/\/(\*|\*\.[^*/]+|[^*/]+)\/.*$/, or match the pattern /^file:\/\/\/.*$/], or match the pattern /^resource:\/\/(\*|\*\.[^*/]+|[^*/]+)\/.*$|^about:/]
Reading manifest: Error processing permissions.5: Value "ttsEngine" must either: must either [must either [be one of ["clipboardRead", "clipboardWrite", "geolocation", "idle", "notifications"], be one of ["bookmarks"], be one of ["find"], be one of ["history"], be one of ["menus.overrideContext"], be one of ["search"], be one of ["activeTab", "tabs", "tabHide"], be one of ["browserSettings"], be one of ["cookies"], be one of ["downloads", "downloads.open"], be one of ["topSites"], be one of ["webNavigation"], or be one of ["webRequest", "webRequestBlocking"]], be one of ["alarms", "mozillaAddons", "storage", "unlimitedStorage"], be one of ["browsingData"], be one of ["captivePortal"], be one of ["devtools"], be one of ["identity"], be one of ["menus", "contextMenus"], be one of ["pkcs11"], be one of ["geckoProfiler"], be one of ["sessions"], be one of ["contextualIdentities"], be one of ["dns"], be one of ["management"], be one of ["privacy"], be one of ["proxy"], be one of ["nativeMessaging"], be one of ["telemetry"], be one of ["theme"], or match the pattern /^experiments(\.\w+)+$/], or must either [be one of [""], must either [match the pattern /^(https?|wss?|file|ftp|\*):\/\/(\*|\*\.[^*/]+|[^*/]+)\/.*$/, or match the pattern /^file:\/\/\/.*$/], or match the pattern /^resource:\/\/(\*|\*\.[^*/]+|[^*/]+)\/.*$|^about:/]
Reading manifest: Error processing key: An unexpected property was found in the WebExtension manifest.
Reading manifest: Error processing oauth2: An unexpected property was found in the WebExtension manifest.
Reading manifest: Error processing options_page: An unexpected property was found in the WebExtension manifest.
Extension ID
{ddc62400-f22d-4dd3-8b4a-05837de53c2e}
Internal UUID
d3446ddf-aa4e-4ee3-a3d7-8bb27344aa9eManifest URL
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Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Reading manifest: Error processing background.persistent: Event pages are not currently supported. This will run as a persistent background page.
Reading manifest: Error processing permissions.4: Value "tts" must either: must either [must either [be one of ["clipboardRead", "clipboardWrite", "geolocation", "idle", "notifications"], be one of ["bookmarks"], be one of ["find"], be one of ["history"], be one of ["menus.overrideContext"], be one of ["search"], be one of ["activeTab", "tabs", "tabHide"], be one of ["browserSettings"], be one of ["cookies"], be one of ["downloads", "downloads.open"], be one of ["topSites"], be one of ["webNavigation"], or be one of ["webRequest", "webRequestBlocking"]], be one of ["alarms", "mozillaAddons", "storage", "unlimitedStorage"], be one of ["browsingData"], be one of ["captivePortal"], be one of ["devtools"], be one of ["identity"], be one of ["menus", "contextMenus"], be one of ["pkcs11"], be one of ["geckoProfiler"], be one of ["sessions"], be one of ["contextualIdentities"], be one of ["dns"], be one of ["management"], be one of ["privacy"], be one of ["proxy"], be one of ["nativeMessaging"], be one of ["telemetry"], be one of ["theme"], or match the pattern /^experiments(\.\w+)+$/], or must either [be one of [""], must either [match the pattern /^(https?|wss?|file|ftp|\*):\/\/(\*|\*\.[^*/]+|[^*/]+)\/.*$/, or match the pattern /^file:\/\/\/.*$/], or match the pattern /^resource:\/\/(\*|\*\.[^*/]+|[^*/]+)\/.*$|^about:/]
Reading manifest: Error processing permissions.5: Value "ttsEngine" must either: must either [must either [be one of ["clipboardRead", "clipboardWrite", "geolocation", "idle", "notifications"], be one of ["bookmarks"], be one of ["find"], be one of ["history"], be one of ["menus.overrideContext"], be one of ["search"], be one of ["activeTab", "tabs", "tabHide"], be one of ["browserSettings"], be one of ["cookies"], be one of ["downloads", "downloads.open"], be one of ["topSites"], be one of ["webNavigation"], or be one of ["webRequest", "webRequestBlocking"]], be one of ["alarms", "mozillaAddons", "storage", "unlimitedStorage"], be one of ["browsingData"], be one of ["captivePortal"], be one of ["devtools"], be one of ["identity"], be one of ["menus", "contextMenus"], be one of ["pkcs11"], be one of ["geckoProfiler"], be one of ["sessions"], be one of ["contextualIdentities"], be one of ["dns"], be one of ["management"], be one of ["privacy"], be one of ["proxy"], be one of ["nativeMessaging"], be one of ["telemetry"], be one of ["theme"], or match the pattern /^experiments(\.\w+)+$/], or must either [be one of [""], must either [match the pattern /^(https?|wss?|file|ftp|\*):\/\/(\*|\*\.[^*/]+|[^*/]+)\/.*$/, or match the pattern /^file:\/\/\/.*$/], or match the pattern /^resource:\/\/(\*|\*\.[^*/]+|[^*/]+)\/.*$|^about:/]
Reading manifest: Error processing key: An unexpected property was found in the WebExtension manifest.
Reading manifest: Error processing oauth2: An unexpected property was found in the WebExtension manifest.
Reading manifest: Error processing options_page: An unexpected property was found in the WebExtension manifest.
Extension ID
{ddc62400-f22d-4dd3-8b4a-05837de53c2e}
Internal UUID
d3446ddf-aa4e-4ee3-a3d7-8bb27344aa9eManifest URL
1,196 reviews
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- Rated 4 out of 5by GollumsRing, a month agoExcellent extension. It would be great if it could omit pronouncing the citations at the end of sentences as well as being able to pause after a period in the sentence. Also, if it could avoid reading hyperlinks, that would be cool too. Otherwise, its 5 stars
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- Rated 2 out of 5by aditya A, a month ago2 star for the voices which sounds like mechanical rather human. except that every thing is fine
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Marty, a month agoThe update from June 30, 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.
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