What's new in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.69.0
Apr 10, 2024
- Improve support for Kindle reader with prefetching and using Tesseract library to do OCR in-browser
- Fix issue with seeking when using Microsoft Desktop voices
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.68.0 (Apr 3, 2024)
- Added Piper voices (Piper is a collection of high-quality text-to-speech voices created by the Piper Project, powered by machine learning technology. These voices are synthesized in-browser, requiring no cloud subscriptions, and are entirely free to use)
- Fixed Kindle reader page-flipping function
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.67.1 (Jan 11, 2024)
- This build fixes broken extension on Firefox for Android
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.67.0 (Jan 8, 2024)
- Fix issue with context menu disappearing after disable/reinstall
- Add support for websites that use shadow DOM to display content (such as MSN.com)
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.66.0 (Sep 20, 2023)
- Fix extension not working on Kindle reader website
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.65.0 (Aug 4, 2023)
- Fix problem reading epub files with EPUBReader extension.
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.64.0 (Jul 18, 2023)
- Add ability to "use my phone" for TTS
- Show offline voices as a separate group for clarity
- Fix issue when using extension on Google Slides and Kindle Reader
- Minor UI improvements
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.63.0 (Apr 5, 2023)
- For users whose OS offers no native TTS voices, auto-select will now fallback on using the "ReadAloud Generic Voice" instead of the "GoogleTranslate" voices (which required granting extra permissions).
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.62.0 (Feb 27, 2023)
- some Firefox for Android users were having problem with the auto-selected GoogleTranslate voices, this version uses the "ReadAloud Generic Voice" by default which is much more reliable
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.61.0 (Feb 3, 2023)
- Improve support for reading aloud OneDrive documents, Google Docs, and Kindle books
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.60.1 (Oct 24, 2022)
- Add Russian localization.
- Add "ReadAloud Generic Voice" for systems that don't provide decent quality voices.
- Fix issue where reading suddenly stops after a paragraph or two (Firefox 106).
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.59.1 (Sep 1, 2022)
- Removed announcement feature for compliance
- Added Turkish internationalization
- Fixed 'no text found' on certain pages on archiveofourown.org
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.59.0 (Aug 8, 2022)
- Added instructions on how to change shortcut keys
- Added support for the new GoogleNeural2 voices
- Added GoogleTranslate voices for Javanese and Kannada
- Added custom support for archiveofourown.org
- Fix pdf-upload form opening inside text-highlighting window when shown as separate window
- Avoid reading URLs
- Avoid reading long lines of repeated characters like ****** or ======
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.58.0 (Aug 1, 2022)
- Improve language detection
- Improve error reporting
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.57.0 (Jul 21, 2022)
- Attempt to detect and ignore PDF header/footer and annotations
- Add support for webnovel.com
- Improve language detection when selecting only small amount of text to read
- Fix support for Chegg ereader
- Ensure Chinese voices show up properly in language preferences page
- Fix problem with Google Docs where updates are not detected upon rereading
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.54.2 (Apr 20, 2022)
- Updated AmazonPolly voice list
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.54.1 (Apr 4, 2022)
- Fix Google Docs support
- Add OneDrive Docx support
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.52.0 (Feb 11, 2022)
- Add a workaround for Google docs, only require the google-workspace-addon if workaround fails
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.51.0 (Feb 8, 2022)
- Improved integration with Read Aloud Google Docs addon.
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.50.0 (Feb 4, 2022)
- Add option to show text highlighting in a separate browser window
- Add 'Options' menu item when user right clicks on extension icon
- Integrate with the Read Aloud Google Docs addon
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.48.0 (Sep 28, 2021)
- Fix VitalSource page flipping
- Can now read aloud LibbyApp website
- When reading Google Docs, user will be instructed to install the new GDocs addon
- Smart handling of embedded PDFs
- Disable Wavenet demo voices
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.46.0 (Sep 10, 2021)
- Improved handling of VitalSource, Chegg, Google Play Book paging mechanism
- Added custom handling for LibertyU, W.W.Norton, and Pearson+ courseware
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.45.1 (Aug 25, 2021)
- Fix a bug where user not able to test GoogleTranslate voices from Options page
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.45.0 (Aug 16, 2021)
- Fixed GoogleTranslate voices stopped working in previous version
- Added new GoogleTranslate voices (bulgarian, estonian, gujarati, malay, marathi, myanmar, sundanese, urdu)
- Fixed auto-pageflip not working for non-English Google Play books
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.43.0 (Jul 27, 2021)
- Fix problem with Google Play books
- Update PDF viewer
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.42.0 (May 18, 2021)
- Fix issue with text selection in Google Docs when language is RTL, such as Hebrew
- Support dark mode
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.40.0 (Feb 25, 2021)
- This version supports Firefox for Android (Fenix)
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.39.0 (Jan 22, 2021)
- Fix GoogleTranslate voices (stopped working due to algorithm change).
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.37.0 (Jan 4, 2021)
- Fix GoogleTranslate voices.
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.36.0 (Dec 28, 2020)
- Premium voices are now available for Firefox
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.33.0 (Jul 3, 2020)
- Fix #128 not working in private mode
- Fix #145 some Google Play books not working, and bulleted lists not read
- Fix #84, #94, #126 some Kindle books not working, bulleted lists not read, references shouldn't be read, stopped working after switching books
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.32.0 (Jun 22, 2020)
- Now supports EPUB via the excellent EPUBReader extension
- Fix issue #139 (first words of each paragraph are silent when using BT speaker)
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.31.2 (Jun 9, 2020)
- Read Aloud now works on file:// URLs
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.31.1 (May 21, 2020)
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.31.0 (May 13, 2020)
- IBM Watson voices now requires using your own IBM cloud API key
- Amazon Matthew and Joanna voices now supports Conversational style
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.30.2 (May 8, 2020)
- fix IBM Watson TTS voices
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.30.1 (May 8, 2020)
- Fix IBM Watson voices that stopped working today.
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.30.0 (May 2, 2020)
- Removed dependency on the aws-sdk for compliance with Mozilla extension policies
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.29.0 (Apr 22, 2020)
- Fix wavenet voices
- Allow selecting a preferred voice for each language
New in Read Aloud for Firefox 1.26.0 (Apr 22, 2020)
- Fix custom voices, can now enable AWS Polly voices