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Text-to-Speech (TTS) extension that transforms highlighted text into high-quality natural sounding audio using Google Cloud's…

Users10KCurrent public install base
Rating4.5Store average score
Reviews93Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
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Version12
ManifestV3
Size4.59MiB
Languages1English
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Text-to-Speech (TTS) extension that transforms highlighted text into high-quality natural sounding audio using Google Cloud's Text-to-Speech.

You need to create your own API Key in order to use this extension (see the included video for instructions).

Features

- Support for all Google WaveNet, Neural2, News, Studio voices and languages.

- Adjustable pitch and speed.

- Download selected text to an MP3 file.

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Store average score4.5Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
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Reviews with text78Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews93Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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M Y2023年7月22日
5

Hey, great work here! Since you made an update, I can't choose the speed I want. For example I was using 1.15 speed, but now it's just 1 or 1.25 open for choice. Thanks

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1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Saleh Almhameed2023年6月1日
3

Great work, is there any way to improve the quality of the downloaded files?? they are kinda bad.

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Liam Taylor2023年2月19日
5

Holy s**t, the new Studio voices are amazing! I haven't found a TTS service this good that's anywhere near this accessible. A highly useful extension!

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3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Deniz Perçin2022年10月19日
4

When will you add Neural Link support? Thanks...

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0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Mani Shekar2022年6月28日
4

Brilliant, extension! Thank you for this. Just a small issue with the SSML. It seems to work only with around 500 characters. Anything more and SSML is just plain ignored.

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1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Bernhard K2022年6月8日
4

It would be good to have the google Neural2 language as an option :)

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Sandy T.2022年3月22日
5

I don't want to miss this little program anymore. The YouTube vid telling you how to set up your own API is really helpful -- so thanks for providing that. WaveNet for Chrome now reads all my texts -- and I love to have text read out loud to me, so I use it daily. As for the hotkeys, it takes a bit of getting used to the Ctrl-Shift-S for reading a text, but after a few days it's second nature.

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1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Kosta Kondratenko2022年3月4日
5

This is awesome - I've been looking for a text to speech that actually sounds natural. I bought a Neutral Reader subscription which is $19 and was very close to shelling out $19USD p/month for NaturalReader. I loved IBM's Watson text to speech and also Google's cloud text to speech but they all had a character limit and I had a long list of notes that I wanted read back to me. Anyway - enough about my story - but I just wanted to show appreciation to the author. I had been working through API's, trying to figure out CURL commands, going back and forth with API teams and finally I have an extension that does EXACTLY what I want - highlight text - click to listen (to a real natural voice) - and click to download - and all I need to do is paste my Google API key. Beautiful. Thank you so much, I was staying up late trying to find a solution and now I can go to sleep feeling like a winner (L)

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Peter Jones2022年1月5日
5

This is saving us a lot of time setting up Covid announcements on our PA system at work. No need to find an MP3 with Americanisms or clips that are not quite right. We can get Google WaveNet to voice our own scripts. Thanks! :)

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Felix Trautwein2021年8月26日
5

Hey man, great app. Is there any way you would allow us to change the quality of the audio? The current downloaded audio sounds very low quality :(

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2 helpful · 0 not helpful