Description
Speaks aloud text in web pages
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Ranking Summary
Overall Rank
Extension Rank
"Text To Speech" Keyword
"Speech To Text" Keyword
"Speech" Keyword
"Software" Keyword
"Premium" Keyword
"Microsoft" Keyword
"Google Keep" Keyword
"Google Docs" Keyword
"French" Keyword
Featured Rank
Review Summary
ClaroRead Chrome is praised for its helpful text-to-speech capabilities and user-friendly design, aiding users with reading difficulties. Users appreciate clear voices, multiple languages, and useful features like highlighting. However, it frequently experiences bugs, missing features, and removal of voices, leading to frustration. The extension sometimes disrupts browser functions, particularly with PDFs and emails. Confusing payment models and lack of offline use hinder its appeal. Overall, while powerful and frequently updated, users desire more reliability, clearer pricing, and expanded functionality.
Pros
- Provides helpful text-to-speech functionality, especially benefiting users with dyslexia or reading difficulties.
- Easy to use with clear voices available in multiple languages including French and English.
- Free version is adequate for occasional needs and offers frequent updates and professional development.
- Overlay and highlight features improve usability by showing read text, enhancing comprehension.
- Supports multiple voices and allows for continuous reading of text, which some users find superior to other TTS extensions.
Cons
- Extension often stops working or has bugs causing it not to read aloud as expected or controls to disappear.
- Some useful features and voices have been removed or moved behind unclear or paid subscriptions, frustrating long-term users.
- The extension interferes with browser functionality, such as preventing viewing PDF files and sometimes disrupting email text entry.
- Requiring a license key or showing persistent payment prompts is confusing or unwelcome to many users, with unclear trial periods and paywalls.
- Lack of offline functionality and limited voice options in free version restrict flexibility, especially for classroom use. Reading web addresses and scanned text is limited.
Permissions
This extension can:
- identity
- identity.email
- tabs
- tts
- storage
- contextMenus
- nativeMessaging
- downloads
- clipboardWrite
- clipboardRead
- management
- scripting
- activeTab
This extension can access:
- <all_urls>
Additional Information
35.3.6
November 12, 2024
106.00 MB
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Developer Information
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