Description
Listen to any text in the web in a human voice. A simple extension powered by ElevenLabs to convert any text to speech.
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"Reader" Keyword
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Review Summary
Users appreciate the Human Reader extension's excellent voice quality powered by ElevenLabs and its ease of use for reading text aloud. However, common issues include inconvenient default hotkeys conflicting with browser shortcuts, lack of playback controls, and problems with API key validation or usage limits. Additionally, users experience glitches such as delayed starts, missing audio segments, and incompatibility with some websites. Overall, the extension shows great potential but needs improvements in usability and stability.
Pros
- High-quality text-to-speech using ElevenLabs' voices, praised for clarity and performance.
- Simple and easy to use with a user-friendly extension button for selected text.
- Promising extension that fulfills its main purpose well and saves users time.
- Supports custom voices and offers good voice quality.
- Developer is responsive and the extension is seen as having huge potential.
Cons
- Lack of playback controls once audio starts; users rely on inconvenient hotkeys with no UI controls.
- Default keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+H) conflicts with browser shortcuts and cannot be easily changed.
- API key integration issues, with users repeatedly having to enter their key, encountering invalid key errors, or facing usage blocks due to the ElevenLabs free tier limitations.
- Incompatibility or issues on certain websites and platforms, such as Google Docs and some articles, where playback fails or the button spins indefinitely.
- Audio playback bugs including skipping beginnings of words, cutting off the end, delays before reading starts, and sometimes requiring browser restarts to fix playback issues.
Permissions
This extension can:
- storage
- contextMenus
This extension can access:
- <all_urls>
Additional Information
1.7
September 9, 2024
1.03 MB
en-US
Developer Information
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