What is Text to Speech?

Text to Speech is a Chrome extension developed by brian.girko, and its main feature is "Read any selected text in the browser with human-quality text-to-speech (TTS) engines".

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Download Text to Speech Extension CRX File

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Extension Usage Instructions

Text-to-Speech (TTS) extension is a powerful tool to speak the current page. Just select the content and press the toolbar button (browser-action button) and the extension will start converting the content to speech. This extension supports both local and remote TTS engines of your browser and supports a few more remote TTS engines if your browser has no engine of its own.

The quality of the conversion depends on the engine that you select. The remote engines usually provide a really good quality conversion close to human quality conversion.

This extension supports the following actions:
Pause and resume the speech
Skip to the next section
repeat the current section
move to the previous section

This extension also supports sound controlling options:
Adjust the volume of the speech
Adjust the speed of the speech
Adjust the pitch of the speech

The extension offers text to speech conversion in different language.

Extension Basic Information

Name	Text to Speech
ID	ccfpenhpilnacfeimonjfdndpphbgkaa
Official URL	https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/text-to-speech/ccfpenhpilnacfeimonjfdndpphbgkaa
Description	Read any selected text in the browser with human-quality text-to-speech (TTS) engines
File Size	145 KB
Installation Count	2,247
Current Version	0.1.2
Last Updated	2019-10-27
Publish Date	2019-10-27
Rating	2.50/5 Total 4 Ratings
Developer	brian.girko
Email	[email protected]
Payment Type	free
Extension Website	https://add0n.com/text-to-speech.html
Help Page URL	https://add0n.com/text-to-speech.html
Supported Languages	en
manifest.json
{ "update_url": "https:\/\/clients2.google.com\/service\/update2\/crx", "manifest_version": 2, "version": "0.1.2", "name": "Text to Speech", "description": "Read any selected text in the browser with human-quality text-to-speech (TTS) engines", "permissions": [ "storage", "activeTab", "notifications" ], "background": { "persistent": false, "scripts": [ "background.js" ] }, "homepage_url": "https:\/\/add0n.com\/text-to-speech.html", "icons": { "16": "data\/icons\/16.png", "19": "data\/icons\/19.png", "32": "data\/icons\/32.png", "38": "data\/icons\/38.png", "48": "data\/icons\/48.png", "64": "data\/icons\/64.png", "128": "data\/icons\/128.png", "256": "data\/icons\/256.png" }, "browser_action": { "default_icon": { "16": "data\/icons\/16.png", "19": "data\/icons\/19.png", "32": "data\/icons\/32.png", "38": "data\/icons\/38.png", "48": "data\/icons\/48.png", "64": "data\/icons\/64.png" }, "default_title": "Select some text and press the icon to display the TTS popup. Click once more to hide the popup" } }