Screen Reader for Google Chrome
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Description from extension meta
This extension provides aid for the visually impaired people.
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Description from store
The extensions allow you to click on a text on a web page to read it aloud using the built-in text-to-speech (TTS) service. You can configure which TTS service to use by clicking on the extension's icon and selecting your favorite voice from the configuration dialog.
It is a Google Hackathon 2012 in Warsaw, Poland, Chrome extension. Each operating system has a text-to-speech service, so consider using them first.
If you need a new feature or spot an issue, you can report it on my GitHub page. I will respond as soon as possible. Remember that it is a side project, and I may have other priorities. But I will try to help as much as I can.
Latest reviews
- Tom Meiter
- Really bad, you have to paste the test you want read
- Mr. Rootbeer
- It works in the worst way possible. You need to click the text to get it to talk, but only on certain boxes of text. It will highlight what can be read with an annoying white box, most of which are links, meaning if you want to it to read it your going to ride that link too. What I actually need it to read can't be read for some reason, so I copy it all and paste it in their preview. While the extension is enabled the white highlight will just not go away, even if the toggle voice is currently off. Its just bad and not useful for what I need. It is actively distracting.
- Marius Gri
- doest work o.O
- Geert van den Berg
- Does work now and then and then only on part of a page. Seperate components on a sticky banner are handled as one component. If there is a text and buttons on that banner, all texts from separate components is read as if it was one component.
- Craig Jayson
- can't even hear it, doesn't work. i tried highlighting text, clicking text, nothing. not even the settings tester worked.
- Fernando Estuesta
- This chrome extension works very well. Thank you for this!
- Russ Fan
- Works...sort of. Saw the ratings and wanted to see for myself. The main thing is that it works on CERTAIN pages, like Facebook, but not others, like Kindle. So my intended idea of having it read books to me won't work, at least with the Kindle Reader on Chrome for PC.
- Joseph Chua
- Agreed, doesnt work.
- Jen Mooney
- To all the people saying it doesn't work: You have to click the text to make it read. Not very obvious, I only found it when I went to copy and paste something after installing it. That said, it's choppy and cuts out partway through a paragraph (text I was reading had a lot of citations in it, so maybe that was the problem), and will only start back at the beginning of a paragraph. It also sounds very much like old an school text reader vs the newer technology they have in iOS accessibility features, for example. Would be great if you could select speed options. But it works.
- Jen Mooney
- To all the people saying it doesn't work: You have to click the text to make it read. Not very obvious, I only found it when I went to copy and paste something after installing it. That said, it's choppy and cuts out partway through a paragraph (text I was reading had a lot of citations in it, so maybe that was the problem), and will only start back at the beginning of a paragraph. It also sounds very much like old an school text reader vs the newer technology they have in iOS accessibility features, for example. Would be great if you could select speed options. But it works.
- Melody Sierra
- I could not make it work. Ironically, I deleted it. Tried to leave a review, it wouldn't let me leave a review unless I had it installed. Ha! So I reinstalled it just so I could leave the review. It doesn't work. Maybe it used to, but it definitely doesn't now.
- Melody Sierra
- I could not make it work. Ironically, I deleted it. Tried to leave a review, it wouldn't let me leave a review unless I had it installed. Ha! So I reinstalled it just so I could leave the review. It doesn't work. Maybe it used to, but it definitely doesn't now.
- Alexander Tkachenko
- - не понятно как активировать озвучку - отсутствует документация
- Cad Programmer
- Does not work at all. I hope I can find a screen reader that will.
- Cad Programmer
- Does not work at all. I hope I can find a screen reader that will.
- Roger Brownlie
- Can't figure out how to make it work
- Roger Brownlie
- Can't figure out how to make it work
- Filip Koperkiewicz
- Nie działa
- mustafa küçük
- I think it should give us a choise for "not to read quotation mark and reference numbers". Because if there are a lot quotation mark or reference numbers, the sentence is broken.
- mustafa küçük
- I think it should give us a choise for "not to read quotation mark and reference numbers". Because if there are a lot quotation mark or reference numbers, the sentence is broken.
- Stefan Reich
- Doesn't do anything at all for me, no idea how to get it to work. Yes I restarted Chrome.
- Stefan Reich
- Doesn't do anything at all for me, no idea how to get it to work. Yes I restarted Chrome.
- Landis Wenger
- It didn't work while I had it added to chrome, and then after I removed it, it was working and I couldn't turn it off.
- Landis Wenger
- It didn't work while I had it added to chrome, and then after I removed it, it was working and I couldn't turn it off.
- John E Lemieux III
- So far it only works for my windows 10 hp stream ....
- John E Lemieux III
- So far it only works for my windows 10 hp stream ....
- Hrushikesh Joshi
- Awesome ...but even after choosing female sound its giving male .
- Hrushikesh Joshi
- Awesome ...but even after choosing female sound its giving male .
- Stephen Love
- Works perfectly
- Stephen Love
- Works perfectly
- James Miller
- This extension works fine, but you have to restart Chrome to use it, once it is installed. Then switch it on, and click somewhere in the page. The reader will either read everything or just the paragraph that you select. The text that is to be read is underlined. I would like to see this feature added - read everything below the point at which you click. Also, it would be nice to see some options list added that would allow you to add html5 tags that you don't want read, like lists or code items etc. If the code is publicly accessibly, ie open source, at github, then I would be happy to contribute.
- Tracy Greenwood
- It looks like a great extension, but how do you make it work? I installed it, went to a Google Doc, and it doesn't do anything. Deleting.
- Tracy Greenwood
- It looks like a great extension, but how do you make it work? I installed it, went to a Google Doc, and it doesn't do anything. Deleting.
- Erik D
- Can't get it to work at all no matter what I try.
- Erik D
- Can't get it to work at all no matter what I try.
- José Ginés Giménez
- I am using to improve my English reading web news at the same time I listen to. At the moment works fine.
- José Ginés Giménez
- I am using to improve my English reading web news at the same time I listen to. At the moment works fine.
- Ronice
- It does not reads pdfs, and only reads the line you click on so if you're reading you got to click on every single line which I assume would get annoying. Also it says "quotation mark" when reading a quote
- Ronice
- It does not reads pdfs, and only reads the line you click on so if you're reading you got to click on every single line which I assume would get annoying. Also it says "quotation mark" when reading a quote
- Justin St. Germain
- doesnt work at all
- Justin St. Germain
- doesnt work at all
- Lorez Barber
- I cant figure out how to uninstall it and it doesn't read everything.
- Lorez Barber
- I cant figure out how to uninstall it and it doesn't read everything.
- Manie Cronje
- Using Google Chrome could not get it to work ...
- Manie Cronje
- Using Google Chrome could not get it to work ...
- Katie Browne
- I can't get it to work. I press the button and click around the screen but nothing happens. I even tried highlighting the text and nothing happened...??
- Katie Browne
- I can't get it to work. I press the button and click around the screen but nothing happens. I even tried highlighting the text and nothing happened...??
- Russell Bishop
- Doesn't work..
- Russell Bishop
- Doesn't work..
- Shandi Greve Penrod
- It didn't really work. I couldn't figure out how to use it (and I'm usually pretty smart about these things). I navigated to three different websites, and it automatically started reading once. No luck getting it to work (automatically or manually) on the other two sites.