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Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader

Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software

3.8 Stars out of 5
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Review by Firefox user 12482743
by Firefox user 12482743, 3 years ago
It was great at first but then whatever trial period there was on the premium voices ran out and after spending way, way too long trying to figure out how to purchase access to those voices I gave up and used Zira. Then today after using it for a couple of weeks it went buggy. The stop button and the forward and back buttons stopped working and the reading speed seemed to be off. Even closing the tab wouldn't stop it from reading. Finally had to turn it off in Firefox settings and just went ahead and uninstalled it. While looking for a way to get the better voices I found out FF already has a built in TTS.
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  • by P R Merrill, 4 days ago
    My eyesight is failing *AMD) and this extension has saved my life. It's only fault is it won't read text that isn't really text but a picture of text. quite a few folks use that method on wed sites and ads. I will just skip those. Thanks for being there for us.
  • by chisinha, 6 days ago
    Even better now with the Piper voices :o))
  • by Martina, 8 days ago
    Used to work great, I do not mind robotic voices as long as my eyes get a rest. But last few days it is barely usable, it is not reading paragraph I click on, but it reads everything from the start, or does reads whole paragraphs on every section I click. It used to skip immediately where I wanted. It does not stop when I click stop, nor pause. It highlights different sections than it reads. Removing and adding the add on again did not hep. On average, I rate 3 stars due to previous good experience, but it is no longer usable for me.
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  • by k0ns0l, 20 days ago
    It appears I can no longer install a custom voice :/

    Activity log is showing "TypeError: Error in input stream" even after a 100% install status.
  • by Petra, 22 days ago
    useful and easy to use thanks
  • by Firefox user 18740215, 22 days ago
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  • by myrrsky, 23 days ago
    terrible robotic voices. It like TTS 15 years ago...

    Developer response

    posted 23 days ago
    Please right click the Read Aloud icon and choose Options, then you can choose from a variety of voices, including the new Piper voices powered by machine learning.
  • by Dedy Hidayat, 23 days ago
  • by Firefox user 18727064, a month ago
    Spsjc and nagr
  • by Firefox user 18726676, a month ago
    La voz es muy mala
  • by techguru12, a month ago
    Just robotic terrible voice which is there whatever I choose, reinstalling ... nothing works!! awfull
  • by Hashimx10, a month ago
    even talkit from windows 98 is still much better than this one.
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  • by Firefox user 5963374, a month ago
    Excelente, le doy 5 estrellas
  • by Jonsmon, a month ago
    This addon works quite well on my PC.
    For those complaining about the robotic sounding voice... Try switching to "GoogleTranslate English" voice or one of Google's other voices.
  • by Firefox user 18418147, a month ago
    It's gotten worse. It still works, but it randomly stops sometimes then you only have to start over at the top of the text. It used to be able to read things to me in the background but it only does that for a few paragraphs and then stops again. Basically, it's buggy and used to work better.