Tired of reading? Select text you want to read and listen to it. SpeakIt converts text into speech so you no longer need to read.
SpeakIt! is free text to speech extension that reads selected text using TTS technology with language auto-detection. It can read text in more than 50 languages.
Usage:
- First select the text you want it to read.
- Then click the icon to start listening.
- When it is ready to read, the number of sentences is shown on the icon.
- To stop listening at any time click pause
NOTE:
- After installation you may need to restart Chrome so SpeakIt can function correctly
- This extension uses Google text-to-speech service. Please visit http://goo.gl/OOVgp to see if it is accessible to you.
ChangeLog:
New in v 0.2.98:
- Small bug fixes
- Fixed update bug
New in v 0.2.4:
- Switched to Chrome lang detect API due to Google translate API has been deprecated (SpeakIt now detect input language by language of whole page not only selected text :( :( )
- Improved how SpeakIt! splits sentences, now it stops on right places and pronunciation is much better.
- Added internationalization support. SpeakIt! is now localized on 12 languages.
- Fixed some small bugs
New in v 0.2.3:
- Implemented new Chrome TTS API
- Added offline (native) TTS support
- Added feature to add and configure new TTS engines/voices
- Fixed some bugs
New in v 0.2.2:
- Added keyboard shortcut support
- Added context menu support
- Added new features in options page
- Fixed some bugs
New in v 0.2.1:
- Added Speech Input feature ( Speech to Text ) enable from options
- Changed User Graphical Interface, SpeakIt now use Zen audio player which i hope you will like it ;)
- Fixed lot of bugs that caused previous version of SpeakIt to end in middle of reading
- Added Options feature
- Added donations button ( can be hidden from options menu )
Any comments, suggestions and critics are welcomed you can contact me on twitter @SkechBoy
If you like the extension please rate it.
Latest reviews
- (2023-09-30) Nazarene Lakey: This developer is a God! I have found this extension endlessly useful, especially in school. Great Job Petrov! your work and talent has not gone unnoticed nor unappreciated! Спасибо
- (2023-09-18) Gladys Otero Santamarina: I highlighted a three line parragraph and it only converted to speech a single sentence. It even stopped after finishing it. Tried highlighting other pieces of text but the same happened. Very cool idea and nice speech voice, but this issue makes it unusable.
- (2023-06-12) Suzi Y: This is what I was looking for. Highlight and read. THANK YOU!
- (2023-05-25) Jared Van de Ligt: this extension is handy someone sent me a website that had a lot of reading to do, i used speak it and listened to speak it read the website was way better to have it read it to me then read it myself, i did not feel like reading the whole article, so it was nice to have speak it read it to me
- (2023-05-21) soul mate: TTS- native
- (2023-04-14) Михаил Абрамов: ЧИТАЕТ 6-7 СТРОК, ЗАТЕМ ТИШИНА
- (2023-04-11) lu yuan: very useful
- (2023-02-22) RJ Smith: One of the worst ones ever created. when it dose work. 1 out of 99% of the time it good. But for the 99% of the time it fails or it read or reads everything like this. The plus plus of the plus plus is plus plus plus plus plus plus and so the plus plus is plus plus and plus plus plus plus plus plus......... What a useless thing someone has created. It could not even read this post. Do not bother wasting your time in using this.
- (2023-02-01) Bobak Tadjalli: After I installed the extension, it redirected me to its settings page and the point that made me to put 1-star raring is that it was only using my computer's TTS (Windows 10 Pro) and not more as shown in the screenshots.
- (2023-01-04) Wouter k: Keeps rerouting me to a blocked address of sketchboy.com
- (2022-12-17) Murphian: can not use
- (2022-11-07) Deisire Nagorski: Tem que melhorar muito, num dia funciona no outro não, não identifica o inglês no meio do português, não faz as pontuações direito e já tem tecnologia para identificar melhor as palavras hoje em dia. Aprendam com o @voice.
- (2022-05-03) Sorban: Il fonctionne mais seulement pour une petite phrase de 3 ligne puis il s'arrête d'un coup. Je ne vais pas rechercher tout les 3 ligne pour qu'elle parle le texte entier !
- (2021-11-03) Csaba: Jobb mint a Multivox !
- (2021-10-18) Boris Enríquez: excelente
- (2021-09-25) Sergey Silchenko (check32): Speakit! v0.2.92 был хорош, затем всё хуже и хуже. Убрали поддержку сторонних голосов вообще напрасно. Раньше хоть в 32bit-ной версии нормальные движки поддерживались Теперь стало совсем плохо. Снесу наверное. Буду искать что-то другое.
- (2021-08-24) arm mokh: it's awesome you can change voice in extention option. you can add keyboard shortcut in chrome://extensions/shortcuts for it then just highlight words and then press your keyboard shortcut then extension will read it
- (2021-07-24) Gerardo DZ: Desearia que tuviera mas voces, pero en general me encanta, me ha facilitado la vida, y adoro poder tenerlo
- (2021-07-23) Chonita Foster: i love it but hate the fact that it constantly stops. Why is it doing this i have to constantly uninstall and reinstall it. Its really becoming annoying
- (2021-06-02) Alexander Nikitin: Пытаюсь пользоваться этим расширением много лет. Но постоянные глюки. Хочет читает, хочет нет. Постоянно слетают настройки. Как можно быть таким криворуким? Кофе упился разработчик что-ли?
- (2021-04-15) Negrean Sergiu Aurelian: liar. not romanian!
- (2021-04-10) Yul Firell: Читает половину предложения, замолкает и всё.
- (2021-04-02) Ruwantha Lankathilaka: No other plugin give natural reading except this one and it is absolutely free
- (2021-03-03) Matthew Bowles: This has been a nice extension until last night. The Google UK English Male voice was very clear and had high quality, but ever since last night, this voice has been very unclear and has low quality. I liked it when it was clear with high quality. A lot of the other voices which used to have high quality now have low quality too.
- (2021-02-19) Aadam Chohan: Worst function ever i downloaded it and it reads as and it and does not read the entire text it will stop whenever it wants to and decide not to read.
- (2021-01-08) Gustavo Doná: Awesome!
- (2020-11-24) Oleg stranger: Спасибо! Очень полезное приложение! У меня на ПК был установлен синтезатор речи от RHVoice с голосами, выбрал голос Anna и пока всё супер, как на ЯБ.
- (2020-11-12) Christophe Cellarier: Bonjour, application très bien, possibilité d'avoir du "Wavenet"... de plus lorsque je choisi la voix Google cela coupe et ne fini jamais de lire texte... Merci pour cette super application.
- (2020-09-12) Mamadou Salane: loveit
- (2020-07-29) Keti Keti: This app is AMAZING! I use it every day. Big thanks to the team behind this app! Fully deserves all its 5 star reviews!
- (2020-07-29) sturm 777: ЧИТАЕТ 6-7 СТРОК, ЗАТЕМ => ТИШИНА !
- (2020-07-21) jennifer keicilvany: designer muito bonito e util o problema é que quando pausa volta do início
- (2020-07-20) Shan Info: Nice product. very helpful and easy to use.
- (2020-07-16) Tani S: I used to love this app and the control of it. However lately it just stops randomly. Not good anymore.
- (2020-07-13) ibrahim ali: best app in world
- (2020-04-12) Phala Mansa: Fica sendo desativada, a todo o momento, pois o chrome a considera não segura!
- (2017-02-22) Marcos Roberto Ribeiro: Excelente extensão! Extremamente útil para praticar inglês.
- (2017-02-21) Anthony V. Gibby: Voice sounds so natural, I don't use any other app.
- (2017-02-19) mauro gori: Quando funzionerà bene anche la lingua "Google Italiano" sarò lieto di dare 5 stelle
- (2017-02-18) Miles Menuck: Phenominal reader, easy to use, FREE! I'd Recommend getting another voice from IVONA or Neospeech, or another source.
- (2017-02-18) Vampir: Очень полезное приложение
- (2017-02-17) Моя ВЕРА: И что это приложение делает? Читает когда ему вздумается. Из 20 текстов может прочитать один, в лучшем случае. Оценка одна- фуфло!!!!
- (2017-02-17) John Waxler: Good voice. Great extensions. I have tried a couple and like this once the most.
- (2017-02-16) Gerry Hawkins: haven't use it that much however when I did, like reading a disclaimer its awesome!
- (2017-02-14) King Jamzz: mine stop working after like 4 weeks dose anyone know how to make it work again
- (2017-02-12) J T M: muy real
- (2017-02-11) phly95 :: I would like it if the google voices didn't stop, but fortunately, iSpeech seems to work pretty well, despite some flaws avoided by the google TTS. (like iSpeech not handling certain types of apostraphes properly)
- (2017-02-11) Константин Мельников: Спасибо! Пользуюсь им уже года 3
- (2017-02-10) Krzysztof Falkowski: To rozszerzenie przeglądarki jest według mnie super. Polecam!!
- (2017-02-09) Damian Skibitzki: sehr gut