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 13910159
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefox user 13910159, 8 years agoBeing an Australian, I have selected the Google Australian female voice. It actually sounds more natural than the other selections, including the American ones. It's good for sitting back and listening to long documents or Wikipedia pages. It also allows highlighting sections of text for just that section to be read, making it extremely useful for the fine print in things like the terms and conditions of contests or membership rules, etc.
There are the odd mispronunciations, but in my opinion this is made up for by other enhancements...for example, dates written in US format are read out in British/Australian format. So a date written as March 30th is read back as 30th of March.
It also reads currency correctly. A figure like $123,456 is read out as "a hundred and twenty-three thousand, four hundred and fifty-six dollars"
Very happy with it. Well done to the developers.
There are the odd mispronunciations, but in my opinion this is made up for by other enhancements...for example, dates written in US format are read out in British/Australian format. So a date written as March 30th is read back as 30th of March.
It also reads currency correctly. A figure like $123,456 is read out as "a hundred and twenty-three thousand, four hundred and fifty-six dollars"
Very happy with it. Well done to the developers.
1,272 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by kandosh27, 12 days agoLa extensión se salta frases, palabras en muchas paginas, tienes que revisar a mano que se salta
- Rated 1 out of 5by rift, 15 days 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, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17789734, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by enes, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Syd, 25 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by 斗小马, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14009137, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pedro, 2 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, 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, 3 months agoSo happy with this, I use it to read e-books which I open in the browser.
- Rated 3 out of 5by kone, 3 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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