Reviews of Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader

List of user reviews and ratings for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader

Total ratings

4.18 (Rating count: 3,280)

Review summary

Pros
  • Great for reading journal articles and focusing on text
  • Free with useful features, including voice customization
  • User-friendly and intuitive interface
  • Works well for editing and learning
  • Good performance for a free extension compared to paid alternatives
Cons
  • Voice quality can sound robotic and machine-like
  • Technical issues such as freezing or crashing
  • Limited voice options for some users
  • Fails to read beyond the first tab in Google Docs
  • Some users face glitches with toolbars while using the extension
Most mentioned
  • Voice quality issues
  • Technical glitches and freezing
  • User-friendly features and setup
  • Voice customization options
  • Performance in Google Docs
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Recent rating average: 2.60
All time rating average: 4.18
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Date Author Rating Lang Comment
2025-03-31
Veselina Pavlovski
en It was working fine, but it broke and now the voice can read one sentence and it stops. Very unsatisfying.
2025-03-28
神秘人
zh 最近開始讀一句不到就自動停了。
2025-03-28
Forester Weidy
zh 就是單純使用google語音而已,中規中矩,能聽但不悅耳,並沒有特別對中文語音有特別客製朗讀
2025-03-27
Carly Nichole
en It's not reading the full pdf I selected, it has the super robotic voice that can't pronounce a lot of common words.
2025-03-27
Lexie B
en I love this extension. As someone with Dyslexia it has been an absolute life saver. However, for all the good it has done, it also has a lot of issues. I have been using the same voice on here for years, Google US English. It is the only voice that I can bare to stand for hours on end but it always seems to have one issue or another. There have been times where the voice would glitch or even when it was completely removed from the extension for several days without notice. As of the last few day I keep receiving the error "Timeout, TTS never started, try picking another voice?" that only occurs on that voice. As someone who heavy relies on this type of service to make it through day to day life these kinds of issues are unexpectable. A few hours I understand, but when there are already several other people who have reported the same issue starting 4 days ago it is a bit ridiculous that nothing has been fixed yet. I need these services to make it through school and work assignments, and am often using it for hours at a time, when long term issues like his appear, it negatively impacts my life as I struggle to make deadlines and keep up. As a long term user I am begging you to fix this and prevent other long term issues like this from occurring in the future.
2025-03-25
Hao Tai
zh 非常棒 喜欢
2025-03-24
Mouse Meinhardt
en This has stopped working and has timed out, can someone who created this please go into the app and figure out what is wrong with it please?
2025-03-24
Dave Murphy
en Not working for me either as of 3/24/25, getting this error: "The extensions gallery cannot be scripted" (I'm not scripting this extension). I also noticed, it was functioning oddly for the past week or 2 (repeating the same line, dying half way through). Prior to all of this, I LOVED the extension. I'll change my rating once it's fixed.
2025-03-23
Adam Azzalino
en Not working anymore
2025-03-22
Fr Vm
es El mejor que he encontrado hasta ahora
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