From November 12th, 2018 to March 15th, 2023, 7% user give 5-star rating, 6% user give 4-star rating, 2% user give 3-star rating, 12% user give 2-star rating, 74% user give 1-star rating. for Select and Speak - Text to Speech chrome extension.
Doesn't work at all.
never working ?
I should have read the reviews before wasting time on this extension. I use another one that actually works (and does so very well) and was just curious to see if this one had fast reading voices. For those of you still looking, Read Out Loud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader is a great alternative.
not working
The extension keeps spamming " Download Celebrity Voice Changer on the Google Play Store or App Store and rate it 5 stars to unlock unlimited use for the extension! its easy! I am not downloading the app on bluestacks and forcing myself to rate it 5 stars just to use a basic voice search extension which doesint even do what it says, all it does is read things out in a text to speech fashion like a screen reader, which is misinformation and false advertising.
fake app
Just look at the other reviews near this one. I will say the same thing. It NEVER worked. The icon showed it was (spinning) but it never worked. Dissapointing.
Does not work. The icon just spins but does not speak.
It simply NEVER worked. Period.. I'd select text, and on MULTIPLE websites, several times. It wasn't like i tried it once or twice and removed. I've had it for over a month now and I've tried everything. Even read the WHOLE extension page and FAQs 2 or 3 times.
It is not functional. So why is it here? What does it benefit from having people download it?
Does not work, icon spins, no play time or sound is output.
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didnt work
Still doesn't work.
Doesn't work.
This extension was good for several years but recently, as of Feb 2022, the extension refuses to work despite being updated, reinstalled, etc. I've given up trying to make this work for me. I'm using a new app called Read Aloud now for anyone else who needs it. Its a real shame this app stopped working all together.
Doesn't work... like not even at all? waste of time
won't read anything out. Can't figure it out
Doesn't work currently. Uninstalled immediately.
slow , not been helpful
does not work
It is not working. Keep spinning
Nothing happens when you click "Read with select and speak".
Doesn't work but claims money.
This extention sucks. Not because of the voices, but because it simply does not work. When you highlight a text then click read with select and speak, all it does it make the extention logo at the top spin.
It doesn't work I have tried removing it and adding it again but nothing seems to get it to start. I have gone through everything including seeing if it needs permission in each site but nothing gets it to read the text. this extension is a joke. I do not recommend.
The extension is not working when i use it on wikipedia or any other website.
I'm a paying customer, unable to have the "new" version work, and email to developer are left unanswered
Couldn't get it to work
Shameless
Ever since last week, I've had some issues. Anytime I click on the speaker icon, the extension won't read any of the text I highlighted.
Icons indicate it's working (but it isn't). Google/Android seems want to prove you can't just break things once. You can keep breaking them a new every update so every brand you work with is made to look like a jerk too.
Ah........ it sucked.
not work
i selected chinese, but it reads in other language
doesn't work at all
when a crow(select and speak) try to sing like cuckoo(read aloud)
Just didnt like it....
thx it helped a lot
i hate any extension that says i need to buy a premium version. useless for books.
It pronounced "institution" as "instititilitution". Marketed with "human voice technology," but it doesn't really sound that human. Barely works, and doesn't have options to change the speed of the reading.
Pathetic. Not only is the pronunciation of certain words completely wrong, but the detection of spacing and paragraphs and general grammar is terribly poor. I can hardly believe they expect money to use this junk. Uninstall
this does not work at all
Since when did the extension need to be paid for???
Getting an e mail from Pay Pal that these guys are trying to milk me for a year I did not use ! That I owe for something that did not work and support I could not get from them. The free version works well. The pay one does not work. Why should I pay for something that does not work? Hey dudes! There are people out there that neet this kind of software...... Do not try and CHEAT them !!!!!!!!!
The pro version is not working..it is completely fraud. I have paid for "Select to Speak" 2 times on the same day, amount of $70 to get the Pro version for Chrome extension. But I did not get the pro, and I am still on the free version.
ITs horrible it takes your money and never gives you premium. dont download.
Used to be much better but now the basic functions suck.
this app does have an annoying voice but the 5k words pre day is useful for me
You killed its functionality. I loved this extension for its ability to read selected text in a page. Now I must paste it into a reader first? Which makes me lose my place in the page. I have used this for years as an accessibility tool. You've rendered it useless for me. Please fix this!
useless
This app is hardly tolerable I am thank for it but i believe that that i am very blessed and don't mean to be rude or blunt, but I wouldn't recommend this to any one. It reads really slow and the voice stops very often.
No longer works properly. You have to copy and paste the 'selected' text into a special window to have it read.
the older version was so much better this text box is terrible.. sure add the function if you wanted to highlight and paste but this puts a step in the way and decreases accessibility. Im uninstalling now.
Does not work with the hiligh and reed option any more, you now have to copy and pains witch waste time.
What happened to this extension? It used to be great...just select the text in the browser and click the icon and it would read it. Now it sucks...you have to copy and paste the text out of the web page, which defeats the ease of use of the previous extension. I can do cut/paste with plenty of web-based TTS sites. Bring the old version back!
This used to be a perfect app. It could read text directly from websites. Lately it was updated and is now completely ruined. It does not read directly from websites. It has to be in focus to work. Sorry guys. you ruined it and I find it useless
This plugin was formerly so good that I attempted to purchase the Pro version. It successfully charged my PayPal account with the plugin simply continued to display the popup asking to try the 7-day trial, with the accompanying five second delay. I tried emailing their support department twice but never received a reply. I also attempted to submit support requests via two separate web forms on their website. Both returned a 500 server error (meaning things are broken on their end). And now an update yesterday disabled the "select" function. It was a great plugin that I relied on every day and I would have been happy to pay $36 a year. But now I have to uninstall it and request a refund from PayPal. Obviously something went very wrong at this company.
i like it...thanks
This read aloud app has been a very great help to me. I am a healing Quadriplegic with spinal cord injury who eyes very often do not function. This app has been a lifesaver and in spite of only using the basic read aloud functions I have been enabled to actually read such critical medical emails and many other life saving letters. I believe this is a very wise investment and I will upgrade as soon as I can. Thank you Mr. C.J. Klymson # YVO
Annoying only
There is better software for this... I promise you, They are scamming you. Try, Speechify :)
presents problems of terrible delays
It's wonderful but the voice is weird.
Free version was good. Now I have to pay a monthly fee to keep the features I once had. No thanks.
Test the extension reading this line 'There is no manual intervention in provisioning or deprovisioning services.' Hence I didn't like it.
Cant upgrade even though they have taken payment? highlighted text speak does not work? Voice breaks unnecessarily at end of line instead of end of sentence. Web site contact page does not work? Need i say more.
The free version is very limited. The voice is pleasant but the pronunciation of many words is poor. As of 2019, there are much better voices around. The pronunciation from "Read Aloud: a text to speech voice reader" extension is way more advanced, it has much fewer mispronounced words. Also the above named ReadAloud has a moving highlight of sentences.
So far so good. I've used other text to speech extensions and this is one of the better ones. First, it works, which is a big deal as some others didn't work. Second, you can select which text to read or have it read the whole page. Lastly, you can change female/male voice and speed, but that's it. You apparently need another app to get more voices, which I will not do.
People have a lot of negative things to say here, but frankly, they need to remember that this is a product offered for free (up to 5000 words per day), and personally I am very thankful for its existence. I use this product to help me in my translation work. It features a very impressive range of languages. I can tell you that getting your computer to speak a language (such as Japanese in my case) is no trivial matter when it is not natively supported by your operating system (Linux in my case). I actually did get Japanese text-to-speech to work on my system (Linux, Arch, i3), but it's buggy and I had to look at source code to figure out how to use it. The text-to-speech on MacOS is rather excellent in my opinion, and you can use that in the browser. It also offers a wide range of languages, and I sometimes boot up MacOS just for that purpose. I suspect that many of the users of this product are Windows users. The text to speech for Japanese on Windows 10 was a huge headache to me and I gave up. Using it just for English might be convenient, however, I needed more than English. It seems like there is a new TTS system and a legacy system existing side-by-side. It seems that a language like Japanese requires the legacy system, and Microsoft Word has its own separate thing going on. Text-to-speech should be system-wide and a text editor like Word should work nicely with the system TTS, rather than having its own. Therefore I do not use Windows for my translation work, except for sometimes putting the text in a Word or Excel document as a last step. Anyway, given the difficult of TTS for non-English languages on Windows and on Linux, I thought that perhaps I could do it in the browser with a browser extension. I was pleased to find this product. The Japanese voice is much better than the Japanese voice on a free and open source product from Nagoya university that I used. The paid version is $3 per month. If you are using more than 5000 words per day, and this product was useful to you, then surely it is worth $3 per month? There are too many people whining and complaining here who do not understand the work that must have been put in to offer this product, who do not understand that developers must eat and pay rent too, who perhaps do not understand how companies and modern society function. They are the rampant whiny babies running around expecting everything to be done for them for free. Grow up, babies. Your socialism is someone else's slavery. If this free product helped you without too much fuss, then I say simply give it 5 stars.
doesn't support multiple languages
Honestly awful. Text is super robotic, doesn't flow at all - especially from the end of one sentence to the next, often having big delays. Deleted it and downloaded the other higher rated one on extensions and is FAR better.
the british voice is TERRIBLE, we used several voice controlled apps in the 1980s, and this voice is just one or two generational steps ahead, and they want money for it. jeebus fhrist
Subscription service for full use only revealed after download.
The voices are really stupid cannot understand clearly of what they are reading. I think u should change the voices to way nicer ones
Disappointed with voice quality of some choices. I also agree old version had much better TTS choices. What is annoyingly missing English (Australian) Male voice. Sometime I want a male voice they seem to be of lower quality. Only recently has Google TTS offered AU Male voice for android phones pity that is not available here. Would like speed adjustable during playback or ability to send a generated audio file to local player where I could do that.
not working
The voice Sucks and if there was a zero stars i would definitely give it a zero it was complete TRASH! ?????????????????????????????????????:'(
TRASH it keeps saying TEXT NOT FOUND like accually fix this epic games NOW #notblessed #NOTEPIC
Literally the most useless extension I have ever tried.
5000 word limit per day unless you pay for premium
Just awful. Voice wasn't any good and that's when it actually recognized that there was text on the page. Run away people!
Didn't help me read on One Drive
Seldom works!, cant tell you how many times it wont speak the text i've highlighted. this is nothing new, even the older versions had this problem. cant give it zero stars since it is free after all, but if your going to make such an extension then make something that at least works!.
A must for students.
SOme recent performance improvements merit a second star. But the subscription mechanism is broken, cannot register the subscription. Please pay some experienced professionals to fix your add-on. Developer contact is non-responsive (bounces emails).
only 5000 words per day , dont use it anymore .
Вообще не работает! :( Иконка воспроизведения появляется, в углу Сhome появляется иконка воспроизведения, а звука нет!
Removing now that it has that annoying popup since I'm using the "free version" will look for different tool in the marketplace. This tool isn't doing anything that differentiates them in the market, moving on.
Worst app ever!
older version was awesome. THIS VERSION really sucks.
Old version was good. This one sucks and I'm uninstalled in now.
If you haven't seen how good it is, you haven't try it enough! :) For those who have hey enjoy like me ! :)
Its best. I love this extensions
This is the best reader I have found where the voices did not drive me crazy! I love that I can select the text I want read & how fast I want it read. I will be adding this to My Mom's computer next time I see her!!
does not work, old one used to work, new update sucks
My text-to-speech stopped working and told me to download this one. I will not use this one. I'm just not going to use it. It sounds like a softened version of Fred from the 1980's. This represents a huge step backward in the text-to-speech industry. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS EXTENSION.
does not work.
5000 word isn't enough, there is better extension then this
The older version was awesome. THIS VERSION really sucks. The voices are just terrible. The older version the voices were smooth and clear. This pay version is not so great.. There are other text to speech apps that are better by a long shot.
5000 words isn't nearly enough for the average user and the monthly cost is WAY too high. not worth it.
yuck its disgusting
this is garbage I can't believe you disabled SpeakIt!