Read The Web
Text-to-speech for Web Content
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2.64
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Effective for text-to-speech functionality.
- Great voice selection.
- Speed and pacing control are good.
- Useful in a school setting.
Cons
- Frequent bugs and glitches.
- Annoying pop-up that cannot be removed.
- Requires constant sign-ins and resets of settings.
- Interferes with other extensions and programs.
- Mispronounces certain words or phrases.
Most mentioned
- Does not work or is buggy.
- Annoying pop-up and difficulty in removal.
- Frustrations with cursor behavior and text selection.
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| Date | Author | Rating | Lang | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-21 |  | | en | This extension is amazing. It reads the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS). The quality of the voice is excellent. It will stay on the computer if you want it to stay logged on and it really does. It doesn't time out but you can log off and close it if you prefer to log in every time. It allows you to minimize so it's barely visible and out of the way but easily accessible when needed. It's also easy to pause, stop, and restart in a different area of your reading page. Highlighting, copying, and pasting are easy. Using this with the Kurzweil 3000 Website makes getting through my doctoral studies doable. I highly recommend this platform and extension. |
| 2024-08-29 |  | | en | is app really help me with school |
| 2024-02-22 |  | | en | was working for like a day and now just has a red line across and get it to work |
| 2024-01-11 |  | | en | I wish I could give zero stars. Doesn't work. |
| 2024-01-09 |  | | en | It's not working at all for me. |
| 2023-12-30 |  | | en | It's still as buggy as it's been for a while now. It's rather helpful sometimes, but it sometimes interferes with other extensions and programs, especially Google Docs (when I'm not even trying to use Kurzweil!) I can look past the way it mispronounces things because I'm sighted and can read what it's reading, but I can imagine that being a big problem for people with vision issues. My bigger problem is that I can't get rid of it when I don't need it and I can't get it to work when I want it to work! |
| 2022-11-26 |  | | The app is supposed to work with the Kurzweill 3000 and at first I liked it but there are so many issues with this app. I hve to uninstall when i am finished using it and everytime I need the screen to read for me it glitches. | |
| 2022-11-26 |  | | en | The app is supposed to work with the Kurzweill 3000 and at first I liked it but there are so many issues with this app. I hve to uninstall when i am finished using it and everytime I need the screen to read for me it glitches. |
| 2022-10-01 |  | | At first, I really liked the extension. It was working for me. A couple of months ago, though, it started acting up. It will glitch when I enable the extension, not allowing me to press any of the buttons, so I can't make it read. If the buttons do work, sometimes it reads, other times it just highlights text and doesn't move the cursor from there. The Kurzweil cursor also randomly appears even though the extension is disabled. | |
| 2022-10-01 |  | | en | At first, I really liked the extension. It was working for me. A couple of months ago, though, it started acting up. It will glitch when I enable the extension, not allowing me to press any of the buttons, so I can't make it read. If the buttons do work, sometimes it reads, other times it just highlights text and doesn't move the cursor from there. The Kurzweil cursor also randomly appears even though the extension is disabled. |
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