Reviews & Comments of Speak It chrome extension
From August 21st, 2018 to January 22nd, 2023, 17% user give 5-star rating, 5% user give 4-star rating, 12% user give 3-star rating, 12% user give 2-star rating, 55% user give 1-star rating. for Speak It chrome extension.
Reviews of speak it:
Not good. Zero star.
Why would you focibly change my default search engine? And that too without my consent. People should sue you. Your purpose should be to just TTS and you are doing such a thing in background. When disabling and enabling this extension it again sets its own search engine as default which is both annoying and unacceptable. I am removing this extension rightaway.
Don't change my search engine you lemon
It was okay and I used it a bunch, but then it just quit working.
"Speak It may change your search engine to best for you." I don't need Speak It to change anything to best for me, thanks.
Well first, what every one is saying about the tabs is true. But more importantly it can't read a paragraph to me with out stoping, mid sentence too. Its very annoying, I'm going to look for something else.
*** BEWARE - THIS IS WILL HIJACK YOUR BROWSER *** Uninstalled and reported for bad privacy practices. Long time user, but there is no way I will install this on my computer again. Browser hijacking is a form of unwanted software that modifies a web browser's settings without a user's permission, to inject unwanted advertising into the user's browser. A browser hijacker may replace the existing home page, error page, or search engine with its own. - Wikipedia : Browser Hijacking (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_hijacking) Stay away from this extension because it will change your search engine to coolsearch. There are plenty of alternatives for text to speech in 2021 - just search the store for a better extension that will not hijack your browser.
ES UN ESTUPIDO VIRUS NO LO DESCARGEEEN NO LO HAGAN
Reads only 20 words then stops. a little useful tho
Simple, good paced, clear
Was great but now you must change your default search engine from Google. I want my Google, so it's gotta go!
This extension has become malicious. Changed my search engine to a sketchy site, and by force and without user consent. Read other reviews..
It functions great! But what ruins it is that it is forcing me to use a search engine I don't want.
was five starts until their permissions changed and it no longer works on google chrome.
Nope. YOu demand I change my search provider. Hell no. Goodbye after a year. Permissions Change your search settings to: coolsearch.net
This was good for a while but they pulled a fast one and started changing your browser search engine. That wasn't cool at all..
The extension was working fine, been using it for a year with no problem, very happy. However, IDK if others are experiencing the same issue, but all of the sudden, the extension is prompting me to change the search engine to coolsearch.net . I feel like this extension has been compromised.
Was ok before it tried to force my search settings to coolsearch in order to use the add on...
Was amazing until it just decided it wanted to force its stupid search engine on new tabs, which does not offer speech to text search options. (The main reason I open a new tab is to ask a quick question and since I am a slow typer I almost always use Google's new tab speech to text search.) When messing with a product that over 100,000 people use to read for them, you should make it optional because a lot of people who use a program to read for them are probably not the fastest typers. I don't care if it asks if you want to switch each time you use it but there should at least be an option to use another search engine. And if not provide an option to switch then at least provide your own speech to text search on your new tabs. Before this force switch happened I was a proud user of this extension and recommended it to several friends. But after this switch this extension has truly irritated me.
UPDATE: 9/29/2020 [Day 1] - From 5 stars to 1 star in just under 2 years. Downgraded to one star. It should be zero. An update to the extension REQUIRES me to use Google as my toolbar search option. If you disable the option the extension is no longer available. So I changed extensions. I'm now using "Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader" and it's as good or better than what I was using. This is looking really good so far [day one]. I've only been using it for a few minutes so that's not much of a review window but compared to everything else free, with the exception of the no longer functioning, or at least not properly, "SpeakIt!" extension. Not many voice options but I'm grateful all the same. To work I go. Thanks guys.
Changes your search engine to theirs and redirects so spammy links, do not download this!!!
Update: a couple of days later, this deceitful little program disables itself and now "requires" permission to _set my search engine_ to "coolsearch.net". The extension refuses to work until such permission is granted. Wow. This is practically malware. 1 Star is too many. Original review: -------------- Excellent little program for quick one-word pronunciation checking (which is what I personally use it for). One notable glitch is that regardless of whether the Male or Female voice is selected in the menu, the voice is always male. I do appreciate that the extension rarely (so far, never) requests any access to my website information, as that access is not required to speak a highlighted word. I applaud software design that only requests the minimum permissions required to function.
Do not get this extension it will switch your default browser to Bing. Other than that would be a great extension but had to uninstall because of Bing.
Such a disappointment, was a great tool until it started forcing me to use some cool-search engine instead of my preferred google. Up until this point, you could just right click text and select Speak It and it would read it to you. I guess ill be looking around for another one now.
This is not a good extension. I wish it should not be in Chrome.
can't get the female voice to work :/
The only bug i hate is the "female" voice for english doesn't work. Whatever i choose "male" or "female" the voice is male. Fix it if possible thank you :)
Doesn't work with google documents
One of the better TTS extensions. It reads fast enough compared to other TTS extensions that don't
works without problem and interruption. Thank you
Works as it promises to. Uses basic TTS engine in Chrome, but works on already open tabs without having to be reloaded. They are great!
It works only for few sentences only not even one full paragraph or a page. Developers kindly look into in this bug. Please add Hindi language for Indians.
The text-to-speech extensions are terrible. Speak It is by far the best the Chrome Store has to offer, though it has its bugs.
This extension will steal your data. Google need to do a better job protecting people. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/dataspii-technical-deep-dive/
Didn't work
It didn't work at all.
Reads 20ish words then stops
Thank you
its cool
Contains malware which changes my Google search lists. It adds about 10 generated link which leads to spamy webistes at the top.
In Russian it only reads a few words, not even a full paragraph.
This works, is simple, doesn't burden with ads or upgrades. Have chosen this one among all others for these reasons. Must note one bug. I hope the developer reads this. I read (have spoken) numerous articles related to astrophysics. Every single time the word "Sun" (our Sun, Sol) appears, the extension says "Sunday". UPDATE: Have determined that the Sun=Sunday bug occurs only in Microsoft Zira voice... i.e. not the extension developer's fault. Restoring 5 stars.