Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader

Read out loud the current web-page article with one click. Supports 40+ languages.

Total ratings

3.83 (Rating count: 1,073)

Review summary

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Pros

Excellent integration of Piper voices
Usability for visually impaired individuals
Ease of use with familiar interface
Wide variety of voices available
Ability to customize voice settings

Cons

Robotic and uncomprehensible voice quality
High CPU usage leading to performance issues
Issues with reading accuracy, including skipping text
Cannot read text from images
Inconsistent functionality after updates

Most mentioned

Robotic audio quality from the default voice
High CPU usage causing freezing
Inability to control speed and pause duration
Issues with reading accuracy and skipping text
Need for better voice options and installation functionality

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Recent rating average: 2.80

All time rating average: 3.83

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Date	Author	Comment
2025-01-18	Orion Pax	This is a single best extension that I have ever used in all of my History of using Internet. I have always found the read aloud feature on edge very superior and that is something that had kept me on edge for quite a few while. At once I wasn't very impressed of the Piper voices, because I was so used to the Microsoft Eva online voices, which Microsoft provides. So I decided to use narrator on my own PC as a replacement, and thought that I wouldn't use this extension. And so I decided to download those voices on my narrator app But working with narrator is kinda hard because it's not made for people who want to read articles It's mostly made for people who have visual impairment. so i decided to go back And thought to myself that maybe I should stick to read out aloud piper voices and not bother about using anything else. But as soon as I was exploring the settings section, I realised that read aloud has automatically imported all of those voices, which is excellent and absolute beast. 😭😭😭😭😎😎😎😎😎. I'will talk to the creators of this add on so that they know it themselves. So it's implemented within the extension by default. becoz those voices are quite good. heck natural reader also uses them
2025-01-17	kouu	Could you please add an option to determain how long to pause when it reads periods, commas or indentation? also add an option to skip over certain characters like *** instead of reading astrick astrick astrick
2025-01-14	wicin	robotic audio, cant understand text
2025-01-14	Firefox user 18680844
2025-01-14	Brody	This extension was working great until today. Now any time i try to use the extension, it has ~90% cpu usage and causes my laptop to freeze. edit: It seems like I need to restart my computer every couple hours to avoid this issue.
2025-01-13	Firefox user 13723830	voice is super robotic, there is no control over speed. unusable for me
2025-01-13	Th4t
2025-01-12	Fabs	I'm quite baffled by all the bad reviews; the default voice is indeed uncomprehensible, but changing it to one of the (many!) Piper voices actually gives you an output that's easy to listen to and quite enjoyable. English voices' output is, in my opinion, almost on par to Edge's TTS. While I can't speak for all the other languages, I can say that at the moment the Italian Piper models are a bit lacking compared to the English ones, but they're still comprehensible.
2025-01-11	Squed	Voix juste horrible !!
2025-01-06	P R Merrill	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.

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