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Description
Listen to your web
Extension Rankings
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Ranking Summary
#5,785
Overall Rank
#4,861
Extension Rank
#116
"Trademark" Keyword
#141
"Listen" Keyword
Review Summary
Announcify has an appealing concept and is useful for reading text aloud, helping users study or multitask. However, many users report that it stops reading after a few sentences or paragraphs, making it unreliable. It struggles with certain sites and content types, and its voice sounds quite synthetic. The extension lacks advanced features like text selection. Multiple users feel the developer has stopped updating it, resulting in persistent bugs and limited functionality.
Pros
- Useful idea for reading text aloud to aid with studying or multitasking.
- Easy to use with a simple interface, as noted by some users.
- Supports multiple languages and displays text in segments.
Cons
- Frequently stops reading after the first few sentences or paragraphs, cutting out prematurely.
- Does not work properly on some websites or with certain types of content, like Google Docs or code.
- Voice quality is often synthetic and unnatural, detracting from user experience.
- No option to select specific text to read; limited control over reading content.
- App appears unsupported or abandoned, with no updates to fix existing bugs.
Permissions
This extension can:
- tabs
- idle
- tts
- https://www.diffbot.com/api/*
- https://announcify-engine.appspot.com/*
- *://*/*
Additional Information
Version
0.2.2
Updated
November 8, 2015
Size
0.14 MB
Languages
en
Developer Information
Authorhttps://www.announcify.com
Websitewww.announcify.com
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