What is Talking Web?

Talking Web is a Chrome extension developed by speechlabs, and its main feature is "Select the text and let Talking Web read it for you.".

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Extension Usage Instructions

Talking web is a simple plugin that can read out web pages to you with TTS technology.

When you are eye busy or eye tire but still want to get information on the web, talking web can help you.

With Microsoft text to speech (TTS) API, talking Web can read web pages for you, so that you can do other things while listening.

You can also learn to speak word or sentence in foreign languages with talking web.

Talking web can smartly detect the web pages it knows such http://www.bing.com/news to read out the content in a structure way with text to speech engines.

Talking web supports multiple languages so you can switch the language you like to listen via the setting panel.

Usage:

1. Select the text you want Talking Web to read, a read icon will appear.
2. Right-click the selected text or click the icon, Talking Web will read the selected text for you.

1.0.7.11 Uapdate:

1. Add read www.bing.com/news feature. Open bing news, you will see a read icon. Click the icon, Talking web will read news for you.
2. Add save wav feature, right-click the selected text, you can save the wav file for it.

Extension Basic Information

Name	Talking Web
ID	hdeikpphnbclpacdjdjjkpmbcacopnog
Official URL	https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/talking-web/hdeikpphnbclpacdjdjjkpmbcacopnog
Description	Select the text and let Talking Web read it for you.
File Size	89.07 KB
Installation Count	12,830
Current Version	1.0.7.23
Last Updated	2019-03-08
Publish Date	2019-03-08
Rating	3.79/5 Total 257 Ratings
Developer	speechlabs
Payment Type	free
Supported Languages	de,en,en-GB,en-US,fr,es,it,pt-BR,ru,zh-CN,zh-TW,ja
manifest.json
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