Reviews & Comments of ClaroRead Chrome chrome extension
From April 11th, 2016 to June 6th, 2021, 38% user give 5-star rating, 13% user give 4-star rating, 25% user give 3-star rating, 25% user give 1-star rating. for ClaroRead Chrome chrome extension.
Reviews of claroread chrome:
You removed the voice that i was using for English :(, it was name Zira or something. Hope it return in the next update if that happens i will give it 5 stars.
Works fine, though if you have the software is pretty unnecessary, and has the really awful feature of preventing you viewing any and all PDF files in browser: pretty bad for students who get all their assignment briefs via online PDFs. As much as I've been recommended it, I will be telling everyone who asks me about it not to use it.
The free version is perfect for my occasional needs to read longer websites, however sometimes the extension control disappears and I can't get it to read anything. I give 4 stars because it appears that this app is frequently updated and has some professional development on this product.
I am dyslexic and this gives me so much more understanding of what I am reading. I love it and wish it would or could read every page. Some pages I find have blocked the ability to highlight their text. So I am effectively blocked and locked out. I also wish it could read stuff to me that I have scanned but it can't. thank you so much.
Can you make extension work offline with google voices? because they are built into browser
Amazing and its free and the overlay helps a lot so glad i searched for it
I use this on a modern Chromebook - with access to Playstore. The extension works well but I wish that the Android default voice were available on the free version. This would allow me to set up lots of QUALITY android voices (e.g. using CEREPROC TTS) on the 10 chromebooks that I use in my ESL class and students could choose for themselves the brand of English that they want to learn. The voices available in the free version of ClaroRead DRIVE ME MAD.
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Since downloading this my PC is in a mess. I hate it!
[UPDATE 21/11/17: I had to disable it and remove one more star, because it gets all the time in my way, it messes up with my browser, and my emails. It doesn't let me write text in my emails. It chooses/higlights paragraphs of text on its own, without my intervention. And this popup "play button" prevents me from viewing the webpage.] -- previous review: This extension is very good!! everywhere I show with the mouse, it reads it!!! A great Text-To-Speech Extension on the Chrome amongst others. I prefer the "English US Microsoft David Desktop". It reads more clear and no pauses delays, as other voices does. I gave 4 stars because I don't find any way to remove this "play button" Popup. and Unfortunately, you don't support the Greek Language. :-( Anyway, I wish on the next update to fix these 2 features. You did a very good job guys!
I prefer having it on the 'click and play' rather than reading everything on my screen! There are a good range of voices. I love the screen and highlight function as well as it's ability to read text continuously unlike other TTS extensions. Pretty awesome features for freeware! I already have Claroread plus, can I use the license key I received to activate the pro version of this extension?
How the hell does it work? I've installed it and it does nothing but ask for a key!
It is a start. It would be great if it read documents from the Google Drive, docs and alike. Also, when reading webpages it does not read web addresses. It recognises the dot as a full stop. Please continue to work on this as it would be so much easier as having Claroread pro.
Requires a key to use. Should have been up front about it, wasted 10 mins of my time.
I've been listening to works recently, and missed Sangeeta on OSX, so I went looking for her. I found her behind a 300.00 paywall :-( but on the upside, I found Claroread for Chrome! This app is Outstanding. I had a very similar 'speek' button 12 years ago in a linux browser called Konqueror (on KDE 2). When KDE versioned to 3, the speech addon was gone, and nothing has come close to it until this app, which blows Konqueror's "speek" away. Every voice on my system, every voice google has made.. wow.. Now if I could just get a filipino voice.
It works very well. Sometimes bugs are encountered but they seem to fix them within a few weeks of reporting them. It would be useful to have a release history so can see what has changed and whether a bug has been fixed or not as some bugs encountered caused pages within Chrome to freeze or crash. If that occurs you may need to disable the extension until the bug is fixed but you may not know when that has happened.