OmniReader - AI-powered Text To Speech

Interesting idea! I tried it and it worked perfectly!

GraxiDeveloperSep 30, 2024

Thanks for choosing OmniReader and thanks for your time to write this review. We are working on more features. Please stay tuned!

It's a very useful tool with great design!

GraxiDeveloperSep 30, 2024

Hi Rosalie, thanks for taking time to write this review. I designed the new version on my own and I'm very happy you like it:)

Exactly what I was looking for! Amazing.

GraxiDeveloperSep 26, 2024

Thanks for using our extension and we are working on some new features including voice clone. Please stay tuned!

It works great overall. But sometimes it takes a bit more time to process the page before I can click any place to read. I hope this can be improved.

GraxiDeveloperSep 26, 2024

Hi mundane, thanks for reporting this issue. It's true for very long documents, it would take some time to well format the web page. We are aware of this issue and will come up with a solution for that:)

This is an excellent plugin. It can help me read articles on the page with just a click. It can also highlight and scroll through the content. When I'm working, I can wear headphones to listen to articles, and if I want to know more details, I can go back to the page to read the content directly. Kudos to the developers!

GraxiDeveloperSep 26, 2024

Thanks for trying out OmniReader and we are working on a voice clone feature. Please stay tuned!

Didn't work with my Google Docs, it just read the title. Not intuitive, and hard to find help/answers.

GraxiDeveloperSep 8, 2024

You left a comment on the Reddit post and I asked you to provide a screenshot and already explained to you it might have something to do with the document structure since it works well with my google docs. There is also a button 'Share Feedback' in the extension. For anyone who has an issue in the future, feel free to send an email to hello@readio.online

Phenomenal extension, we really need something like this to save screen time and enjoy more of life by listening to content. One thing I really wish is that it simply played the voices as a website audio (like youtube or any media) that I could control with Global Speed (GS). GS extension is very advanced with respect to keyboard shortcuts, such as ASDF controls ("a" key to slow down, "S" key to normalize speed to 1x, and "D" key to speed up), as well as "Z" and "X" to skip back and forward, ... Show more

GraxiDeveloperSep 8, 2024

Hi Dan, thanks for your review:) I really like your idea about Global Speed. I will have a look and let you know the updates. Obviously a new section needs to be added to the UI so users know about all the shortcuts. And could you explain a bit on hover mode without autoplay? Do you mean when you click the Play button, you hope to see the hover effects on each sentence without starting the playback automatically?

Overall, very good extension. But almost always I am getting "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'lang')". The other thing I would like to see is a language detection, so that I don't have to change voice language every time. As for ElevenLabs integration, I added my API Key, but getting this error: "Elevenlabs Error: Unusual activity detected. Free Tier usage disabled. If you are using a proxy/VPN you might need to purchase a Paid Plan to not trigger our abuse detectors. Free Tier ... Show more

GraxiDeveloperAug 26, 2024

Hi Slava, thanks for reporting the issue. - For the error "Cannot read properties of undefined", I didn't see it before but I will try to reproduce to see what was wrong. - Language detection is a good idea and we'd like to implement it. - For the error from ElevenLabs, you need to make sure that you didn't use a proxy/VPN on your computer. This request is directly sent to ElevenLabs not through our server. Maybe you can try searching different solutions on the Internet.

the problem is this. for some reason this adds an icon to the browser window that overlaps the web contents. I don't need that kind of annoyance, so I opened settings to see if there's a way to turn off the icon. there isn't. just a section that says "list the websites you 'don't' want this icon to appear on" so I typed in * to indicate ALL websites. It did remove the icon, but now it also doesn't read the text when I right-click on some highlighted text and select "Read with OmniReader". So ... Show more

GraxiDeveloperAug 24, 2024

Hi Murray, thanks for providing the details of the problem you had. I understand the floating icon on the side of the web page could be very annoying. It's just used to give a quick access to launch OmniReader. It doesn't observe your activity if you have any security concern. Maybe it's related to the structure of the project, we cannot always successfully launch OmniReader without the floating icon. It would be more frustrating for users in that case. So the current solution is a compromise. However, we know it's not a good solution. So we will keep improving and testing to see if we can get rid of this floating icon some day. In your case, the extension will not work if you dismiss the floating icon. I hope it makes sense for other users who have the same concern.

amazing! i can't believe it's free! it's so natural!!

GraxiDeveloperAug 23, 2024

Hi Sara, thanks for writing this review. Though I have to point it out that the extension is not entirely free. You have a daily usage limit on most of the voices(due to high api cost) but we also provide free voices that sound less natural than the premium ones. In the future, I hope to bring in more free natural sounding voices, making OmniReader an extension that free plan users would enjoy:)