A text to speech tool with natural sounding voices.
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Text to Speech (TTS) is a text-to-speech extension with natural-sounding voices by using two different TTS engines.
The 1st engine is the HTML5 native web speech API for speech synthesis. It is active in all modern browsers by default (more info: https://webaudio.github.io/web-speech-api/). The 2nd API is the Kokoro AI engine, which uses a new artificial intelligence method to synthesize text (more info: https://huggingface.co/onnx-community/Kokoro-82M-v1.0-ONNX). Please note that when you choose Kokoro AI, the app needs to download training data (~300MB) for the AI engine. So please be patient while the app is loading.
You can use this extension in a standalone interface or within web pages. If you press the toolbar button, the first interface opens up where you can enter the desired text for TTS. On the other hand, within a webpage, once you select a text, a placeholder speaker icon appears. Once you click the speaker icon, the text-to-speech starts. For the highlight feature to work correctly, please select text paragraph by paragraph. Please note that the highlight feature is still in Beta and may not work properly on all websites. There are also a few options related to the in-page text-to-speech, which can be adjusted from the extension settings page.
Note 1: For TTS in webpages, the app only uses the Web Speech API. Kokoro AI engine is only available within the standalone interface.
Note 2: Kokoro AI engine, once loaded, can work fully offline. Moreover, you can save the output TTS audio as a .wav file to your machine. When text-to-speech is completed, please press the audio icon on the right toolbar.
To report Bugs, please visit the addon's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/text-to-speech.html) and fill out the bug report form.
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Not "natural". Only 3 bad voices available.
Cuts off very soon. US voices are bad, use UK instead (and live with the accent). Too many "joke voices" like "bubbles" (one would be too many but 8 out of 10 are like this... useless I mean...). Thanks for the effort but I will not be using this.
Most of voices stops speech after 50 words. Some voices say "dot". No speech speed.
Considering Chrome doesn't have this feature and Edge does, this is a welcome upgrade. Its not perfect but I give it 5 for filling a need.
Stoped working after 50 words. Only one French voice. Wont work in editable space even when the setting is on. terrible waist of time
Good, please add function to select speed
Once I spend the few moments to see the tutorial it makes so much more sense! Works super well! :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o01NdMw_SxY
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good. but how to switch between voices? and how to change voice speed and/or pitch?
Updating Review - THIS EXTENSION DESERVES A MUCH HIGHER RATING AVERAGE. IT'S EASILY A 4.5 STAR GOING ON 5! I've been using this extension for over a year maybe longer. And during that time I've tried nearly all of them here at the Chrome Web Store...and I always stay on this one because it's easily the best one on all levels. Original Review - Has mostly always worked for me. Thank you for creating this extension. God bless.