← Problems

Synthetic voices sound robotic and hard to follow

Built-in synthetic voices sound robotic, garbled, or hard to understand, making long reading sessions tiring.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

25 public reports · first reported 11 March 2023 · last reported 10 October 2024

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

See a sample idea report

What's going wrong

Many people using the Read Aloud add-on in Firefox say the voices it speaks with sound mechanical, distorted, or garbled, so the spoken text is difficult to follow.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 25 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.