Chrome-Stats extension
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read out loud the current web-page article with one click. Supports 40+ languages.
Total ratings for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
3.86
(Rating count:
936)
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Pros
- Ability to add custom voices from piper
- Useful for turning text into audiobooks
- Time-saving for reading long articles
Cons
- Robotic and unintelligible voices
- Static sound issues in newer versions
- Difficulties with pausing and stopping the reading
Most mentioned
- Robotic voices
- Static sound issues
- Ability to add custom voices from piper
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Recent reviews for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
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All time rating average:
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
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| 2024-05-04 | hunsai |
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| 2024-05-04 | Michael J |
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| 2024-05-01 | max.tela |
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It is a cool idea and helps a lot with my dyslexia. But it works properly less than half of the time. 1. Detecting the text correctly, especially on websites where text is separated by other content or when there are multiple columns. 2. Often the reading out does not stop when click pause or stop, I have to close all Firefox windows to make the reading out stop. |
| 2024-04-27 | Federico Calzoni |
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Piper's voices are really good. I really appreciate the automatic language selection. |
| 2024-04-22 | Firefox user 13284157 |
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| 2024-04-19 | LuisFer |
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| 2024-04-16 | Firefox user 15621291 |
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The voice is good, but the controls don't do jack. The pause button does absolutely nothing ever, and the second time I tried the add on the highlighted text didn't match what was being read (no idea where in the document it was reading from) and this time I had to close the browser entirely to make it stop reading. |
| 2024-04-11 | Paul Newsom |
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| 2024-04-10 | Tom |
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Solid add-on, but the fact that you need to have an entire tab open in order to use the new piper.ttstool voices makes the add-on much less convenient |
| 2024-04-09 | CrubNine |
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1.68 update is leaving a residue static sound whenever there is text loaded in the extension. This is distracting and making the pause feature unusable for me. Edit: I tried out older versions and retried the new one and the problem went away. No idea what was causing it. I encountered another bug however with the new "Piper" feature, the extension was not able to load the manager page where you install the voices. It worked on Brave though (I use LibreWolf) Edit2: Static sound problem came back. I decided to revert back and stay in version 1.66 No longer experience the issue on that version. |
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