This went from a 5 star to a 1 star review because of one simple thing. It now ONLY uses Google TTS. It stopped using my own TTS. I use Ivona 2 Amy (british female). It was working perfectly not to long ago, and I gave them time to fix the issue but it appears the dev has no intention of fixing it and is ok with the cheap robotic google voices.

absolute nightmare.

you can tell it to start reading from a new location after it has already started reading.

shortcut hotkeys don't work at all.

there is no shortcut for speed adjust.

it doesn't tell you what voice it's reading with when it's on auto select.

if you press previous, and there is no data loaded in its memory, it'll stop playing. this means you cannot go back farther than the current page. what garbage.

so many other problems that are basic obvious UX design flaws.

How does this have 4 stars? How does anyone use this without tearing their hair out?
If you only ever need to read from beginning to end then i suppose this gets 5 stars.

good

Need to export to mp3 file, please add this feature. Thanks.

Just started to use; will update my review over the time.
Generally it reads most English mechanically correct... could be better.
Areas for improvement:
1. with livelier intonation.
2. The currency sign "¥" is not just for Japanese Yen, but also Chinese RMB... you know?
3. UI does not function properly on the flight: it does not switch voice promptly.
4. "Pause" and "Stop" buttons do not work... I have to terminate all browser sessions, not just the webpage it works on.

Fantastic! Incredible that it's free! The only improvement I would like is support for reading local PDFs without uploading them to their server.

FUNCIONA EM TODOS TIPOS DE TEXTO, MÁS NÃO DÁ, OPÇÃO PULAR O QUE, NÃO SE QUE LER!

Have quickly tested it with English, French and Italian (by selecting a bit of text in a Web page): smooth! Lovely voices and accents. :)

terrible voice. sounds like stephen hawking

Honestly I use this to help me speed read long books. I will normally have a physical copy in hand and pull up the web version and have Read Aloud running at 1.5x I have to read a lot by virtue of my interests and this helps, but it is certainly more useful for articles and uninterrupted prose like fiction.

I read tech/programming books. I wasn't expecting this to do a good job reading all the symbols and concatenated words but it does a relatively decent job. Some symbols are ignored or not read correctly but that's to be expected.

What's annoying is that the parser for this extension frequently skips single sentences or footnotes that are in between two larger paragraphs. So like if you have one paragraph then a sentence from the next paragraph followed by a diagram then the rest of the paragraph Read Aloud will skip straight from the first paragraph to the larger chunk of the second paragraph. sometimes the skipped part is important so i find myself pausing and rewinding frequently to make sure i got everything. It's jarring when you have a book in hand and read and hear two different things.

Feature suggestion: Consider highlighting the text that is already on the page by default. And having the option to use the modal if the page has funky formatting or something. Is there any reason why you can't just manipulate the DOM to highlight & scroll the words that are already on the page?

highlight the text, no matter what language, and it reads it for you!

unfortunately even middle eastern folk-music sounds better than the machine readers voice