Análises para Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader por LSD Software
Análise por Tks4FF
First use was difficult, a moz code msg & add-on Read Aloud error msgs. Here's the soup I swam thru & it is working for me in FF 62.0.1. (1) This occurred likely from me not having understood the add-on doesn't have 2 EQUAL entry points for messing w it, so note ur entry point if checking out RA. For ex., with only my FF Home Page open (Top Sites, BMs, History), when I tapped the right upperhand 3 vertical dots on my homepage & selected Read Aloud as a direct access point from the drop-down, RA opened to its what sb Options page but was browned out & gave an error msg instead, BUT THIS WAS BC I opened the add-on from its direct access title (I'd thot at 1st on seeing a code error that I'd caused the error msg bc I didnt have open a webpage intended for reading, only my homepage--later I learned it reads many types of content); and so when I instead FIRST selected the (folder type) heading of my installed FF "Add-ons" & THEN proceeded to the Add-ons list & from there selected Read Aloud, I didnt get the error msg "Missing host permission for the tab", I saw the operational Options page, no error msg. Yes!, but it still wouldnt read aloud bc it couldnt, bc I had yet to tell it the language I wanted to hear. (2) IT WORKS, FINALLY, bc if the msg is, "Please sign in to use the Premium Voices", go back to the FF Add-ons list, & select Read Aloud; the Options page that opens will show (probably) the "Voice" selection as "DEFAULT". NOT GOOD. Get rid of the empty "Default" by selecting the voice; a drop-out of language choices is behind the placeholder "Default"--there is no voice that the add-on has defaulted to; RA is awaiting ur selection b4 it will read; & aft you pick a language, "Voice" selection will show "Auto select" not "Default" on RA's Options page. I selected Brit English & Read Aloud read a webpage, yes! I didn't try selecting other voices to see if all are active vs if selections are restricted based on my phone's location/country. I dont know that info, I only know that YOU MUST pick a language for RA's voice reader. Before I knew this simple step I read another reviewer asking the Dev sevl mos back about my same error msg, about prem voices, & I nearly uninstalled RA bc Dev answered with an apology that no purchase was avl yet thru FF, bc the Dev hadn't heard that the reviewer wasnt asking to buy Prem voices, only wanted the add-on to work 'out of the box' & wanted to know what more is required, what do we not know or haven't understood or havent been told? I ?'d if the error was bc RA thot I wasnt signed into my Add-ons or FF browser accounts, but I verified that I was & besides, I'd never known FF Add-ons to care if users had an acct. Then another reviewer from yesterday's date said a moz code msg appeared (Options page), that RA wasnt working, v FF 66.0.1. I'd gotten a moz code error msg too, sevl times, until it stopped & started giving the premium languages error msg. I dont know why it switched from moz code to premium lang as the error, but aft going back & forth opening FF tabs, clicking Read Aloud to hear IF it would read eventually, the Options page began showing prem lang access error msg not the dead-end of the moz code error & with that error msg the Options were avl, & tried self-selecting a language, thinking maybe Default is 0, & the app could work now, it read a webpage. Such a simple step. And now I wonder if going via direct access to open Read Aloud while the Voice was not selected, when it was showing "Default, if this combo is why I got the moz code msg, & I wonder had I not gone to RA via direct access, if I'd gone to Add-ons to access RA, if I might have only had 1 error msg to deal with & not the moz code error prior to it that delayed my getting to the important SIMPLE need to Voice select? (3) It was confusing to me that the add-on could read its "Test" biographical text every time I hit Test from the Options page yet I couldnt finagle it to read a webpage. Maybe an update to FF (mine is v66.0.1) caused the "Default" option of Voice to to zero out. Has anyone bought Prem languages bc of the error msg, e.g., bc RA wouldnt read more than its Test? I can see ppl uninstalling it thinking it doesnt work, but with many great 5+ reviews, it obviously has easily worked out of the box for many. (4) Oh, btw, when u look at languages, go to the very very bottom to see the choice of "Custom Voices"; this opens to 2 selections each requiring credentials entry for the AMZ Polly voices or API ID entry for the Google Wavenet voices (#new2me). This customization when looked at but not selected seemed to hang up bc aft backing out of it, back at the Options page, "Enable custom language" showed as the Voice selection for a short bit, but maybe the lag time is to serve as a temporary reminder of entry of info being needed still if choosing custom voices. No worry, it eventually phased out & "Auto select" appeared beside Voice selection. (5) For me it was a jagged learning process b4 finding the simplicity of making it start, & not a hard path, but a time-consuming one. I don't know, it makes sense to have to enter the language, but Default didn't ring bells for me, it looked already selected as if it was okay 'as is'. Best wishes to Dev & other users. Dev, I'll donate if it works to read books I have open. I need audio of books, I don't have a phone screen reader so this add-on might be an important help.
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- Avaliado em 5 de 5por 镂心鉥肝 , há 7 horas
- Avaliado em 1 de 5por Denis ONIMUS , há 2 dias
- Avaliado em 4 de 5por Utilizador do Firefox 18978943 , há 3 dias
- Avaliado em 5 de 5por DisPlay-name , há 4 dias
- Avaliado em 5 de 5por Utilizador do Firefox 14987115 , há 6 diasI ran into an issue: additional voices weren’t working in Firefox, even though I really like Amazon Russian (Maxim). Interestingly, everything worked fine in Google Chrome. I managed to fix it by changing the Firefox language to English and reinstalling the extension. After that, the extension’s name changed from Russian text to "Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader," and the Google login window, which wouldn’t open before, finally worked—I was able to sign in.
By the way, the link in the Russian version didn’t work, but it might work if you replace %D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B8 with sign in the Russian localization. I don’t need this anymore, but someone else might want to give it a try. Overall, I haven’t found a more convenient TTS tool—this extension is great, but it’s a pity there’s no text highlighting; that would make it even better.
Столкнулся с проблемой: дополнительные голоса в Firefox не работали, хотя мне очень нравится Amazon Russian (Maxim). При этом в Google Chrome всё функционировало без нареканий. Решил проблему, сменив язык в Firefox на английский и переустановив расширение. После этого название расширения изменилось с русского на "Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader", а окно авторизации через Google, которое ранее не открывалось, наконец заработало — я смог войти.
Кстати, ссылка в русской версии не работала, но, возможно, если заменить %D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B8 на sign, она начнёт работать и на русской локализации. Мне это уже не актуально, но кто-то может попробовать. В целом, более удобного TTS я не нашёл, расширение действительно отличное, но жаль, что нет подсветки текста — это сделало бы его ещё лучше. - Avaliado em 1 de 5por Marty , há 10 diasI can no longer use the extension. The same error always occurs when I want to have a text read out to me, the text is not read out with the Google Translate voice. Even the update from 07.05.2025 has not fixed this problem. I was always enthusiastic about this extension, but I have been thinking about deleting it from Firefox since the beginning of 2025.
- Avaliado em 5 de 5por Suheyb Eymen , há 11 dias
- Avaliado em 4 de 5por Gabb4SauRuzZ , há 11 dias
- Avaliado em 5 de 5por Utilizador do Firefox 11114990 , há 13 diasi wish you could use microsoft azure voice AI. it has such wonderful voices.
- Avaliado em 5 de 5por Utilizador do Firefox 18975555 , há 14 diasIch kenne und schätze die App schon seit Jahren und haben nun die Firefox Erweiterung entdeckt. Einfach nur großartig und sehr zu empfehlen. Ich habe mir eine gute Stimme ausgesucht und mache perfekte Hörerfahrungen. Danke!
- Avaliado em 5 de 5por t0dd , há 15 diasJust tremendous. Once you get over the hump of configuring it (you want to select a piper-based voice) this text to speech reader for web context is simply superior to anything else I have tried.
- Avaliado em 1 de 5por Lépido , há 16 diasNem o Stephen Hawking tinha uma voz tão cagada assim, não dá pra entender patavinas do que o bot fala.
- Avaliado em 2 de 5por AyO , há 17 diasWas GREAT until a few days ago. Still works fine for regular pages but no longer working for pdf. Skips lines, stops after a couple of pages and if restarted, starts from some page way before. Does not advance the pages of pdf, like it used to. etc, etc. Please go back to the working version.
2 weeks later - even thou release notes say fixed, it still skips lines, seems even worse than before. Unusable in a PDF. - Avaliado em 5 de 5por vamshi , há 18 dias
- Avaliado em 5 de 5por Utilizador do Firefox 17601116 , há 18 dias
- Avaliado em 5 de 5por elsen , há 20 dias
- Avaliado em 5 de 5por Kasu , há 23 dias
- Avaliado em 5 de 5por Utilizador do Firefox 18140110 , há um mês
- Avaliado em 1 de 5por Utilizador do Firefox 18404318 , há um mêsGreat if you are looking for a megaphone emoji for your toolbar. Useless if you are looking for a TTS that is understandable. Also, doesn't even consistently work.
So hard to believe that in 2025 this is the best we can do for TTS? Has not improved in 20+ years. Embarrassing.