Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
Review by MathisBRogers
Rated 1 out of 5
by MathisBRogers, 4 years agoIt worked great until last week, then it stopped working correctly.
I love being able to highlight a paragraph or more, right click, then hit Read Aloud and it reads the selected text to me. Around Wednesday, October 19, 2022, I selected the text I wanted it to read and right clicked, and the option was gone.
I went to Settings and I do still have Read Aloud turned on and the icon is in the toolbar, but if I click on the icon on this page, it says "Missing host permission for the tab." I click the gear icon, and it has everything set correctly. If I select the text I want it to read and hit alt-p it starts reading, but stops before the end of the selection.
Please set it back to the way it was.
I love being able to highlight a paragraph or more, right click, then hit Read Aloud and it reads the selected text to me. Around Wednesday, October 19, 2022, I selected the text I wanted it to read and right clicked, and the option was gone.
I went to Settings and I do still have Read Aloud turned on and the icon is in the toolbar, but if I click on the icon on this page, it says "Missing host permission for the tab." I click the gear icon, and it has everything set correctly. If I select the text I want it to read and hit alt-p it starts reading, but stops before the end of the selection.
Please set it back to the way it was.
1,279 reviews
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20150530, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18142561, 8 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20121652, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by FelixS, 19 days agoIMPORTANT: Default voice is GARBAGE. For English "GoogleStandard British English (Benjamin)" was very good. You have to give special permission for it to work, which was not super easy. Follow these instructions:
1. Click the permission thing in the settings that show up when you choose this voice.
2. Press the grant permission button.
3. A new page will open. Do NOT press the blue button that says "Try text-to-speech free" or "Start free". Scroll down and press the other blue button that says "Speak it" or similar.
4. Click "I am not a robot" and do a stupid test thing such as clicking on all boxes that contain bridges.
5. Now everything should work and you can close these tabs! - Rated 1 out of 5by kandosh27, a month agoLa extensión se salta frases, palabras en muchas paginas, tienes que revisar a mano que se salta
- Rated 1 out of 5by rift, a month agorandomly stutters, loads for a minute, then gives up.
skips the first ten words.
can't see short sentences unless highlighted.
worse than useless. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14934088, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17789734, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by enes, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Syd, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by 斗小马, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14009137, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pedro, 3 months agoA ferramenta é simples e prática, isso é ótimo, mas eu também adoraria poder mexer na velocidade do texto
- Rated 5 out of 5by PK, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Daniel Vartanian, 3 months agoAmazing! Who needs Speechify when you can use OpenAI voices directly!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19908280, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by lamppost, 4 months agoSo happy with this, I use it to read e-books which I open in the browser.
- Rated 3 out of 5by kone, 4 months agoIt would be great if there were also a context menu option called "Read aloud from here."
With the standard columns, it always pauses briefly at the end of each line. If it would first analyze the entire sentence and then read it aloud in one go, that would be much more pleasant. I would find pauses between sentences much more pleasant! - Rated 1 out of 5by sodar, 4 months agoI was having high hopes at first, but then I learned it doesn't let you use the different voices for TTS you may have installed on Windows, for example. I WANT TO LISTEN TO ANDREW'S VOICE DAMMIT (seriously, his TTS voice is really nice on the ears, you'll find it in Narrator settings as a "Natural" voice)
- Rated 1 out of 5by 星絢未央, 4 months ago