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

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This was a 4 Star App (IMO) but lately a lot of the voice options I've been using have been scrubbed & It's getting to the stage where there's only one or two left that I'll use & should they too be scrubbed, I'll look for another App.

Voices can be purchased under Premium/Custom options but this App isn't up to purchase grade.

If a few features were added, I'd certainly consider purchasing.

I'm beginning to think each 'free' voice has a finite amount of text before it's scrubbed - if this is the case I'll return a 1 Star, leave this review as is & move on.

Well I am still using this App 3 years+ later so it's a 4/5 star application for sure - just at this moment it appears to be frozen?
OK, it is working again after I closed out and restarted. I reported the issue to you.

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Please read our blog to understand how we're providing you these voices: http://blog.readaloud.app/2018/10/the-state-of-text-to-speech-technology.html

The free voices are provided courtesy of Google and IBM. If you run into a limit, it's probably imposed by those companies. You could use the Custom options to pay for your own usage of the premium voices.

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— William Nettles, pred 14 urami
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— Enno, pred 12 dnevi
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— Uporabnik Firefoxa 13704385, pred 13 dnevi
Signing in becomes a hassle
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— Uporabnik Firefoxa 19294083, pred 16 dnevi
This is the same technology as existed in win XP.
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— ndb, pred 19 dnevi
since they introduced the piper voices it got a lot better. it's not perfect, but it's WAY better with the piper voices now.
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— Uporabnik Firefoxa 17317368, pred 22 dnevi
Tried to use it in Firefox on Mint: The voices are straight out of a horror movie. Not close to reality a bit and horrifying at the same time. There is one called female whisper, and it sounds like a witch whispering to you in a dark forest in a dead of night while you are sleeping.
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— kkslidermight, pred 22 dnevi
needs to have the ability for custom endpoints
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— egg, pred 25 dnevi
Doesnt load on pages i NEED read aloud.
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— GollumsRing, pred 25 dnevi
Excellent extension. It would be great if it could omit pronouncing the citations at the end of sentences as well as being able to pause after a period in the sentence. Also, if it could avoid reading hyperlinks, that would be cool too. Otherwise, its 5 stars
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— Uporabnik Firefoxa 17902605, pred 25 dnevi
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— Uporabnik Firefoxa 15037318, pred enim mesecem
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— Cassidy, pred enim mesecem
you have to use the piper voices extension/expansion thing but this extension has saved my grades
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— Uporabnik Firefoxa 14664315, pred enim mesecem
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— Uporabnik Firefoxa 19005157, pred enim mesecem
If you get the addon on mobile it severely limits the voices you can use, you can't even login to your account to access the premium voices or what you paid for. It's obvious that this was made with desktop and laptop use only.
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— Fordring, pred enim mesecem
it can read swear words
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— evilphones, pred enim mesecem
all of them sound like they are in pain. i love it
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— aditya A, pred enim mesecem
2 star for the voices which sounds like mechanical rather human. except that every thing is fine
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— Serhii, pred enim mesecem
Nice one. Thanks for your work
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— Uporabnik Firefoxa 18960744, pred enim mesecem
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— Eris, pred enim mesecem
" Supports 40+ languages." and it's mostly different versions of English.
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— Uporabnik Firefoxa 19312266, pred enim mesecem
Interesting
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— dunteh, pred enim mesecem
Means I can read and listen for study, nailed it guys, thanks
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— Marty, pred enim mesecem
The update from June 30, 2025, did not fix the error either. Whenever I want to listen to something on the Internet, the error message “Not allowed error” always appears. I use the Google Translate German voice. Now, I'm fed up. I'm definitely going to uninstall this extension now.
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— Uporabnik Firefoxa 17608639, pred enim mesecem
I'm very happy with read aloud, when I busy I sometimes listen to my articles cause I'm multitasking, definitely looking to support, thanks dev