Beoardielingen foar Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader troch LSD Software
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troch sodope, 6 jierren lynHonestly 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?
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?
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- Wurdearring: 1 fan 5troch Mel, ien dei lynThe voice volume was so low I could not understand what it was reading. It was so low because the voice sound was coming through my Mac Mini M4 built in speakers and I was about 15 feet distant. There is no apparent means of choosing where the sound output goes.
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- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 18899598, 12 dagen lyn
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- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 19796130, 17 dagen lynEXCELLENT! BEST WAY TO HAVE GOOD TTS ON THE OPEN-SOURCE PLATFORMS! THANK YOU!! <3
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- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 19434419, ien moanne lyn
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- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Алекс,Аноним, ien moanne lyn
- Wurdearring: 3 fan 5troch sc, 2 moannen lynCrashes halfway on almost every page, otherwise would be good
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 14153470, 2 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 2 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 19266537, 2 moannen lynread aloud works (and way too loud), but volume control has zero effect; only when slid to the extreme left does the volume mute (to zero).
Review added 2026-01-30 for Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS ; snap info firefox = 147.0.2-1 latest/stable - Wurdearring: 1 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 19710402, 2 moannen lynRouting you to the the Google TTS sales page and using the Demo box instead of hooking into the Google Cloud API is actually bananas. I can't believe that this thing still doesn't have proper voice fetching implementation after all these years.
- Wurdearring: 1 fan 5troch RescuePaws, 3 moannen lynNot the best. Agree with other users that Edge is better for reading than this. Also I don't like that it automatically sets your setting to allow this developer access to ALL your data unless you change it but even then it piggies back off of google.translate. Also doesn't even read my full text book page just the title and then the page number. I don't like the reading in the extra window either. Idk why its a recommended extension.
- Wurdearring: 4 fan 5troch Michael kim, 3 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 19430323, 3 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 1 fan 5troch Joshua Weiss, 3 moannen lynAppears to use translate.google.com to provide the service, and the new one on me is that extensions apparently can't block other extensions' requests, since umatrix, ublock, etc can be set to block google, and Rethink still shows FF making attempts. So, it basically reports your browsing to Google...that makes it intentionally spyware in my book. FF's own builtin "Read Aloud" will have to suffice atm.