Reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software
205 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16474998, 4 years agoDoes not work 90% of the time because you need to keep enabling google wave net every time and for some reason it forget you've enabled it and then also after you enable it, it keeps saying enable it. Useless, Idk why it's the recommended extension.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHi, the Wavenet voices are not free and Google makes you go through that process again and again to use it for free. If you would, please sign up for a Google Cloud Platform account and use it to enable the Wavenet voices. Then you won't have to go through that permission process. Follow the general steps here: https://blog.readaloud.app/2020/05/using-your-own-google-cloud-platform.html - Rated 1 out of 5by doogong, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16675113, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16660794, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by PT, 4 years agoTerrible. When I click to PAUSE or to STOP, it doesn't work and keeps on reading out loud from the start. I had to uninstall for it to stop speaking.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16588404, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13491429, 4 years agoDas Programm ist eigentlich SUPER das einzige Problem ist das es auf Deutsch (Germany) Sprechen soll aber es alles auf Englisch Spricht womit ich nichts anfangen kann den Fehler beheben wurde versuche ich 5 Sterne zu geben und eine Nettere Bewertung zu schreiben!!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15825772, 4 years agoпостоянно вылетает. не возможно страницу до конца дочитать. в хроме такой проблемы нету
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13800578, 4 years agoIt's only good if you can stand listening to a Dalek .
- Rated 1 out of 5by Fontes Ribeiro, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14832168, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14822391, 4 years agoIt only reads the headings not the actual page content. There is no option to choose anything. DO NOT TOUCH. This is the 2nd time I have tried this on 3 different computers and 3 different accounts. I am deleting and trying something else
- Rated 1 out of 5by Salar, 4 years agoIt gets cuts off to the point that has made it useless on Firefox.
- Rated 1 out of 5by HiddenPalm, 4 years agoThis went from a 5 star to a 1 star review because of one simple thing. It now ONLY uses Google TTS. It stopped using my own TTS. I use Ivona 2 Amy (british female). It was working perfectly not to long ago, and I gave them time to fix the issue but it appears the dev has no intention of fixing it and is ok with the cheap robotic google voices.
- Rated 1 out of 5by gwho, 4 years agoabsolute nightmare.
you can tell it to start reading from a new location after it has already started reading.
shortcut hotkeys don't work at all.
there is no shortcut for speed adjust.
it doesn't tell you what voice it's reading with when it's on auto select.
if you press previous, and there is no data loaded in its memory, it'll stop playing. this means you cannot go back farther than the current page. what garbage.
so many other problems that are basic obvious UX design flaws.
How does this have 4 stars? How does anyone use this without tearing their hair out?
If you only ever need to read from beginning to end then i suppose this gets 5 stars. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13255310, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Forest Fires, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by premier69, 5 years agounfortunately even middle eastern folk-music sounds better than the machine readers voice
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14381599, 5 years agoIt never worked from the get go. It has permission issues, even when granting the requested permissions.
- Rated 1 out of 5by ich, 5 years agoused this extension on Chrome and it worked on the browser excellently! after switching to Firefox i had high hopes for it again but nope, can't have that.
the options to skip/move within the text are buggy and after trying to move around, the reader freaks out completely. repeats paragraphs twice and even after closing the tab, the text keeps going. the only way i got the add-on to shut off was uninstalling. :(