Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader

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?

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.

Not working anymore

i used this nearly every day, but lately, the voice just stops before reading a single full sentence. It gives the Error of "Timeout, TTS never started, try picking another voice?" but it's the same voice i have been used the entire time. and it does the same when i click on the "Test" button

Slow

I am able to highlight text, right click, and left click "read aloud selected text". The voices are very limited. I would recommend using the "google UK English female", with the speed slider a little above half, the pitch one or two placeholders above the speed slider and the volume slider maxed. It think it is better than the other text reading extensions tested.

It mostly does what it is supposed to do. It reads stuff. The voice is electronic but perfectly suitable for my purposes (reading books faster through audio support). Perfectly suitable except that I can't find my place after the first session. There are no bookmarks for "search in text" feature. I have to manually scroll through the GUI until I find the chapter I'm looking for which sucks. Add either a bookmark system or a preferably a search in text system & it would be 5 stars from me.

By far it is a bit better than reader in adobe, or edge, because there is so many voice option here.

I've been SpeakIt user since 2012. Apparently the developer decided to rebrand the extension, and in doing so changed the extension icon. In all of the confusion, I started looking for a new text to speech extension, and I installed this extension. My genuine experience is that this extension is terrible, I still can't understand how this it has 6,000,000 users.... Anyway, long story short, I figured out that SpeakIt has been rebranded into Riddr, same developer, brand new extension works ... Show more

In AI era where robot can speak like a real person, this app still voice like a machine. Way lag behind.