Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
Review by Firefox user 12648956
Rated 3 out of 5
by Firefox user 12648956, 5 years agoStarting off with the default voice I felt it will be a 1 star rating. I went through many voice options and they are pretty much all robotic and of low sound quality. The real slap in the face occurs when selecting a Google standard voice, you need to grant extra permissions which is fine and you are redirected to Google's text to speech site (https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/#put-text-to-speech-into-action)
The voice on the Google site (wavenet-d) is what most people would enjoy, very natural and of high sound quality BUT it is not what you then using this addon.
This addon does what it says on the tin, >eat bean every day 8-/
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The voice on the Google site (wavenet-d) is what most people would enjoy, very natural and of high sound quality BUT it is not what you then using this addon.
This addon does what it says on the tin, >eat bean every day 8-/
Fad/Fart
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi there, Google charges $16/million characters for Wavenet voices. Going through that permission process is the only way to get it for free, albeit for a limited time. This text-to-speech technology is still very new, that's why Google and others charge a lot of money for it. But we expect it will become a commodity in the future. Microsoft Edge indeed already provides some very high quality TTS voices for free with its browser.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14934088, 14 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17789734, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by enes, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Syd, 8 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by 斗小马, 24 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14009137, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pedro, a month 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, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Daniel Vartanian, 2 months agoAmazing! Who needs Speechify when you can use OpenAI voices directly!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19908280, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by lamppost, 2 months agoSo happy with this, I use it to read e-books which I open in the browser.
- Rated 3 out of 5by kone, 2 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, 3 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, 3 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by BoxFolve, 3 months agoKeeps skipping sentences - Very annoying. The standard voice sound like a choking tin frog. The AI voices are substantially better. But why is it skipping sentences?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Didactic Traveller, 3 months agoJust want to counter the people rating one star and saying there's only awful voices. There are really good ones, particularly supertonic. Just download them in the settings and activate them. Seriously, try opening the settings before review bombing.
Moreover, the native PDF support is quite good. PDFs can cause trouble with this sort of software, yet it works great here. - Rated 5 out of 5by d4nchq, 3 months agoIt's awesome, you can use different voices for TTS and can setup useful shortcut to run it.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Zero, 3 months agoThis extension was great! I have problems seeing font on dark websites because there isn't a light mode toggle on some of them. So, I use to use this to read what was posted. However, I was going to use it again today, it now asks for permission for all open url data when before it just did what it was meant to do. No thank you to that. It'd be great if it returned back to what it originally did.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Innokenty Shuvalov, 4 months agowhat's wrong with this voice? hahaha it's is so bad, this is just hilarious!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Gio, 4 months agoHoly terrible, dont bother the voice sounds like a 90 year old smoker, how about we fix that.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19840731, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Silas, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by George, 4 months ago