Text to Speech (TTS)

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A text to speech tool with natural sounding voices.

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Description from store Text to Speech (TTS) is a text-to-speech extension with natural sounding voices by using HTML5 TTS APIs. 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 a 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. To report Bugs, please visit the addon's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/text-to-speech.html) and fill out the bug report form.

Latest reviews

(2025-06-11) burr: Like many say it is slow and should have a speed control but it is fine for me since I can't read fast anyways but I would like to change the voice and also the highlighting text function failed soon after it began.
(2025-04-13) Oren Blythe: could you please add the speed-changing support to the tool?
(2025-04-05) m pe: No sound after pressing the speaker symbol bottom left.Have to paste things in a textbox which is a pain,but could be worthwhile if it actually worked
(2025-03-07) Jason Reiche: Breaks page functions providing more burden than help.
(2025-02-26) Michael Hawke: This interferes with changing the text styles in Gmail in th Edge browser. When I'm typing a Gmail reply and highlight some text to change it to italic or bold or anything, the highlight becomes un-highlighted and no style change happens. Had to remove it to solve the problem.
(2025-01-28) Paige Westlund: Constantly stops and you have to reset the app. Sometimes it'll get 1 sentence in and then stop, other times it will get 3 paragraphs in and then stop.
(2024-12-03) Scyth Labs (Dr. Scythia): not enough english voice models, there's this one specific TTS voice model an Epub Reader app called ReadEra has that's just called "en-US-language, Google, United States" and I find it sounds the least headache inducing at 1.75x speed of any TTS voice model I've ever heard, even if it doesn't sound particularly sophisticated
(2024-11-22) DÏ4B7Ø'S 47TH CHAMBER: you unable 2 change the speed <3 meaning if ur able 2 read faster then a first gradder this becomes instantly nell in void <3
(2024-10-30) E: There is no automatic reading, and it doesnt actually read any webpage. Instead, a popup comes up that you have to manually paste all the text into for it to read. It`s a major nuisance, and completely a waste of time (as it takes 2-3x longer just to read anything in this way). Boooooooo. One commentor says 3.4 rating is underrated, I say it`s too high. I wouldn`t recommend this at all.
(2024-09-27) Isa Walter: I like this one very much. It is friendly, not penetrant. Ok a bit slow, the voice, yes, but for me - as a non-native-speakter - that is very good. :) Amongst that, what is available currently I like it. I feel, 3.4 is a bit underrated. I just see, 40.000 users, who knows how many are happy with it :) Maybe Dev could make a small campaign asking for rating. I would assume, at least a 4star from majoritiy as happy clients Happy people often do not rate. I like the simplicity. Ok, what I don´t like is, that while listening, I can´t scroll because the extension forces the site to stay where the highlighted text is.
(2024-08-30) Brianna Rathburn: Cuts off, and also very slow. Would love some alternate speeds.
(2024-08-13) Sơn Vũ Hữu: good!
(2024-06-16) John Weiss: Not "natural". Only 3 bad voices available.
(2024-04-04) Jindřich Vysocký: 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.
(2024-02-19) Dainius S: Most of voices stops speech after 50 words. Some voices say "dot". No speech speed.
(2024-01-19) GoogleAcct: 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.
(2023-11-10) Xatxitor Hutter: Stoped working after 50 words. Only one French voice. Wont work in editable space even when the setting is on. terrible waist of time
(2023-11-10) Xatxitor Hutter: Stoped working after 50 words. Only one French voice. Wont work in editable space even when the setting is on. terrible waist of time
(2023-08-22) Bartek S: Good, please add function to select speed
(2023-08-22) Bartek S: Good, please add function to select speed
(2023-06-18) Heidi Schøtt: 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
(2023-06-18) Heidi Schøtt: 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
(2023-02-10) Chris Vydas: Doesn't do anything
(2023-02-10) Chris Vydas: Doesn't do anything
(2020-07-25) Andrew “saaadel” Spoda: good. but how to switch between voices? and how to change voice speed and/or pitch?
(2020-07-25) Andrew “saaadel” Spoda: good. but how to switch between voices? and how to change voice speed and/or pitch?
(2020-03-12) Second Life Around: 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.
(2020-03-12) Second Life Around: 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.
(2019-07-16) soul mate: Can't adjust the speed, the reading speed is too slow
(2019-07-16) soul mate: Can't adjust the speed, the reading speed is too slow
(2019-05-20) Humanitaire Empathique: Doesn't work.
(2019-04-20) Mii Hop: It's almost perfect! But is there a way to change the voice into Google Female English? Also change speed and pitch of the voice too? Also there's seems to be bug you can't type anything on input a few times, I don't know why. It seems like it happens after you activate the TTS on two paragraphs of text, that the "unable to type in the input field" bug kicks in.
(2019-04-20) Mii Hop: It's almost perfect! But is there a way to change the voice into Google Female English? Also change speed and pitch of the voice too? Also there's seems to be bug you can't type anything on input a few times, I don't know why. It seems like it happens after you activate the TTS on two paragraphs of text, that the "unable to type in the input field" bug kicks in.
(2019-02-18) David Delma: This is an easy to use extension, but it won't switch to others languages on my computer. It only uses french voice.
(2019-02-18) David Delma: This is an easy to use extension, but it won't switch to others languages on my computer. It only uses french voice.

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