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ken107 / read-aloud

An awesome browser extension that reads aloud webpage content with one click
https://readaloud.app
MIT License
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Can't use google translate voice #345

Closed asecino1999 closed 2 weeks ago

asecino1999 commented 9 months ago

i'm using firefox on ubuntu . i used this extension months ago and it worked fine with the voice of google translate voice . but now it only uses google translate voice the first time ( after opening firefox ) then it only uses the robotic voice of Firefox .

joejac commented 2 months ago

Hello, same is happening to me, before was working fine but now the voice is always very robotic no matter which voice do I select, is not possible to understand, can it be repaired please?. I am using Firefox on MX Linux (Debian derivative) and Read Aloud version 1.69.0 Thank you

brmassa commented 2 months ago

It's driving me nuts. same problem here. Sometimes restarting Firefox fixes the issue. Or copy-paste to Chrome to just use Read Aloud

+1

ken107 commented 2 weeks ago

The GoogleTranslate voices may stop working if you use it for too long (about an hour).

GoogleTranslate text-to-speech service has seen too much usage lately. Because it was designed to support the translate.google.com website, not for use by everyone to read large amounts of text. Google has started throttling requests, and throwing 503 errors occasionally.

brmassa commented 2 weeks ago

@ken107 sarsa, the problem is not in Google translate voice per se, but the sudden change to a robotic voice. It seems (to be confirmed) the the addon cannot find a suitable voice and go for a default one. It happens on Linux only

ken107 commented 2 weeks ago

Yes, since we know GoogleTranslate voices may stop working at some point, at Google's discretion, since the beginning we have included code to fall back to other voices.

The default voices on FF are unfortunately quite poor quality. You might want to choose the ReadAloud Generic Voice, or install Piper voices.

brmassa commented 1 day ago

ok. Understood. The only doubt I have is: why it happens only on Linux? I've never experienced this on Windows machines...