Talkie: text-to-speech (TTS)

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Haraka na rahisi kutuma maandishi kwa usemi. Soma kwa sauti kutoka kwa tovuti, PDF, barua pepe. Kufahamu faragha, msimbo wa chanzo…

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Description from store # Install additional voices New voices, languages, dialects can be downloaded for FREE for your operating system from for example Microsoft and Apple. Once installed correctly, Talkie will auto-detect them. ☑ Windows 10: Settings > Time & Language > Language ☑ macOS: System Preferences > Accessibility > Speech > System voice > Customize... ☑ ChromeOS: Settings > Manage accessibility features > Text-to-Speech voice settings > Speech Engines # Usage 1. Select desired text on any web page. 2. Click the Talkie button in your browser bar You can also select the text, then right click on it, and choose Talkie in the menu. This way also works in PDF-files and some special types of pages in Chrome. https://joelpurra.com/projects/talkie/#usage # Shortcut keys A convenient option is to use the Talkie shortcut keys: ☑ ⌘+Shift+A on macOS ☑ Ctrl+Shift+A on Windows, Linux, Chrome OS ☑ ⌘+Shift+1 or Ctrl+Shift+1 to read text from the clipboard in any program (Talkie Premium feature) If the key does not work, please check that it is not already in use by another extension. How to check or change the Talkie shortcut key: https://joelpurra.com/projects/talkie/#shortcut-keys # Features ☑ Lets you listen to the selected text on any part of a page -- a short snippet or an entire news article. Just highlight what you want to hear read aloud and hit play. ☑ Automatically detects the text language per-page, and chooses a voice in the same language to match it. ☑ Privacy aware -- no unnecessary tracking or external services. # Voices ☑ Uses your browser's built-in Web Speech API for text-to-speech (TTS) known as Speech Synthesis. ☑ All text and speech is processed internally by your browser. While ultimately depending on your specific browser, all processing is expected to be done on your own machine and not use a server. ☑ The available voices may differ depending on your operating system, browser, browser version, and any other installed extensions/software. ☑ Custom voices using Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI) should work, but not all have been tested. https://joelpurra.com/projects/talkie/#install-additional-voices # Upgrade to Talkie Premium! ☑ Select your favorite voice per language! ☑ Adjust the speed and pitch per language! ☑ Read text from the clipboard in any program! # Open source For open source code (GPL-3.0) and more, see the project web page: https://joelpurra.com/projects/talkie/ See also additional tools developed by Joel Purra: https://joelpurra.com/

Latest reviews

(2023-11-13) Marcin Pietrzak: Amazing Chrome Extension! I'm trying to find the best addon for reading a page or the selected element of that page and I can tell, it's the fastest plugin of my old chromebook. Because the most popular addons for this, working so slow. I need something to play TTS, when I click a shortcut and get instantly reaction and this is working well. Good job mate!
(2023-11-11) Arif Diggi (angelArif): works as expected.
(2023-09-03) Outa Agunga: it is among the best chrome extension to use
(2023-08-04) azza: i like australian catherines voice even tho im not australian at all. prolly not legal in some countries but i like to live dangerously. btw, great app, mate! -azza
(2023-07-24) Cenny Wenner: This extension registers global paywall shortcuts that activate even when you do not have your browser in focus.
(2023-05-10) YVO: Countering the other proprietors designing similar highly signature apps only complicating the app's practical value, Talkie text-to-speech is valuable right from the moment I am grateful having installed.... As a person challenged with spinal cord injury this utility /app is a life saver. However anyone who likes to dignify what they write by listening to how clear or edit worthy what we've written is before sending and or commenting in the written word. Thank You Talkie YVO
(2023-03-19) C.C. Lai: Great tool! I am a zh-HK user, I want zh-CN and zh-TW also use zh-HK voice. It is not currently possible. I hope that this will be made possible in a future update. Thank you!
(2023-03-11) 三浦忠: テキスト読み上げを倍速に出来るというので、Premium、paypalで送金してみたけど？、別に何の拡張もないずら
(2023-02-15) Chris Vydas: Payware, premiumware, and doesn't even do anything.
(2023-02-07) Atheer Khalaf: great tool and the dev is very generous.
(2023-01-13) Anthony Jameson: Hi Joel, I want to make a donation to support this very helpful extension, but as of 13 January 2023 none of the relevant links for making a donation -- or even visiting your website -- seem to work (on Chrome under Windows 11). Writing this review was the only way I could find to report this problem.
(2022-09-23) Duy Võ Tấn: Have to manual read from clipboard
(2022-09-04) gina: I has donated but I can not be able to change the speed on voice. I wish it can be as simple as right click! but thank you for the work.
(2022-08-16) Trone: I love this, except for the tedious error message: "Talkie cannot read this kind of page. It is a very sp..." This is open source, so if you'd like to change that, just replace that text in the file at C:\Users\ [your PC user name] \AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Extensions\enfbcfmmdpdminapkflljhbfeejjhjjk\7.0.0_0\_locales\en\messages.json I replaced it with "BONK". If you don't see enfbcfmm.... in your Extensions folder, right-click on the Talkie icon > Manage extension to see what's in the "ID" section. Find the folder with that name in your Extensions folder instead.
(2022-05-21) Marciano Santos: Só funcionou com a voz masculina da Microsoft e não permite aumentar a velocidade de reprodução.
(2022-04-12) Tina Petersen: Fabulous. Easy to use. Perhaps make the install process easier for younger users.
(2022-03-01) Jean Ducrot: The clever functionality of right clicking on selected text to trigger the announcement is worth its weight in gold. It gets around iframe limitations. If this extension would highlight text as it announced it I would give it 5 stars.
(2022-02-04) rhn: bagus, bisa buat belajar bahasa
(2021-10-03) Renato Silva: Voll Müll! habe mehr als 1000.-chF gespendet! trotzdem kein Premium. - wers nicht glaubt, habe alles auf Fotos dokumentiert! Saukram! Muss weiterhin die Frauenstimme hören, die mir mächtig auf die Eier drückt! vorher bei Windoofs 30min Sprachpakete heruntergeladen, für nichts! Aber kompliziert wie nur etwas! Ich frage mich weshalb dass immer so schwierig sein muss mit der Vorleserei !? vor 10 Jahren könnte ich es verstehen, für jede stimme musste man extra bezahlen! so kindisch! es wird höchste Zeit, dass Windoofs begreift, dass wir mit dem PCs reden, sprechen wollen! Und nicht mit dauerlesen unsere Augen verschleissen!!! warum sind wir da technisch mässig, immer noch hinter dem Mond? Cordona, oder wie die hisst da, versteht mit bestem Mikrophon genau O. Google Sprachasistend, scheint mir noch blöder zu sein! Jeder Mensch hat doch ein unverwechselbares Stimmmuster oder nicht? weshalb ist Windoofs noch nicht so weit, dass es unsere Stimme präzise zuordnen kann und darauf reagieren, wie von Mensch zu Mensch! kann doch nicht so schwer sein! oder? Stattdessen müssen wir wie die Blöden, jedes mal: " ok - Google", bei jedem Satz oder : "hey Google " , sagen! dass ist doch Käse hoch 3 Leute!!!!!! und neuerdings lässt Google den bestätigungston ausfallen, nun weiss man erst recht nicht, hat das blöde Ding mich verstanden, gehört, oder tut es mich blos Ausspionieren! ich finde den Stand um das Thema nicht zeitgemäss hinterwäldlerisch und total steinzeitsintfluhtlich,- was auch immer!!! Es nervt! Macht Vorwitz Leute!!!! hat jemand die Windoofs integrierte vorlese Hilfe ausprobiert? Das Teil ist nur geeignet, zum meiner einer in den Wahnsinn zu treiben!!! Die Hölle das Teil!!! "akzeptiere dieses Häkchen, damit Microsoft sich verbessern kann, sagt uns Verbesserungsvorschläge, bitte bitte," - hab ich schon vor 10 Jahren an Windwoofs gemeldet! Machen tun die nichts, ausser uns ausspionieren!!!!!!
(2021-08-12) Zoran M: Is eSpeak the only German voice available in the non-Premium version?
(2021-05-26) Forstmann 67: Die Kostenlose Version finde ich ganz gut, Stimmen kann man wechseln. Was ich aber Richtig gut finden würde, wäre wenn Talkie auch Übersetzend Vorlesen könnte, das würde ich Feiern. Ansonsten alles gut, Premium kam ich nicht Beurteilen, da kein Geld.
(2021-05-07) EREL: Genel bilgide TR belirtilmiş, ben neden bulamadım, Ayarlar içerisinde diğer var olduğu söylenen diğer dillerin hepsi yok.
(2021-04-26) Echnaton Der Gehörnte: Leider keine deutsche Sprache ! Muss man wohl extra bezahlen !
(2021-04-16) Destiny Olsovsky: works good so far!
(2021-04-15) Negrean Sergiu Aurelian: liar. Not romanin!
(2021-04-03) Sven Hornig: cool und danke
(2021-03-07) Soilih BEN SOILIH: Trop foooort !!!
(2021-02-14) Hakka Doğru: voice changing setting does not work.
(2020-12-03) Люся Кузнецова: Это работает отлично!
(2020-11-18) mariusz stopa: jest ok działa dobrze !
(2020-10-26) Chris: This app can't even pronounce version...no thanks
(2020-10-19) MÅNEMANN MÅNEMANN: Only english
(2020-09-07) oneye Bat: This is great when it's working.
(2020-09-03) Julio Cesar Dominguez Vasquez: Funiciona muy bien... pero deberia funcionar mejor con un solo clic y poner varias voces
(2020-08-26) Cesar Zamudio Morantes: Muy buena aplicación ¡Felicidades!
(2020-08-04) Renato Henrique De Souza: Horrível ele só deixa usar a voz da microsoft que por sinal é péssimo, para alterar a voz precisa pagar um valor muito alto. Não recomendo a não ser que você esteja disposto a pagar um rio de dinheiro todo mes!
(2020-07-17) Seppuku Senpai: It wasn't good at all. The default voice is worse than google translate and I tried everything to change it but nothing worked.
(2020-06-23) Antonio Arancibia Flores: Este Lecto no se por que NO LE DAN 5 ESTRELLAS PERFECTO ESPECTATULAR NO SE PAURA COMO EL: Lector de Selección (Texto a Voz)
(2020-04-10) Φένια Δούκα: It does't have greek reader at all...
(2020-03-06) AMID GEORGE LOPEZ-ANDRADE-: bueno
(2020-02-06) Dursun Birinci: türkçe okuma var olarak gösteriyor ama yok
(2020-01-22) Brian Newberry: One of the best extensions i've used. LOVE this! I can EASILY understand better than 95% of what it reads. If it's not exactly perfect - then try different spellings and you're likely to find one that works better. This is one great extension! Well Done!
(2020-01-03) Bert Steinmüller: Funktioniert Top Gute Sache man muss nicht erst immer die Brille suchen 5 Sterne
(2019-12-03) Marcos Canales: no me funciona, no se si debo hacer algo mas ademas de instalarlo, me fijeen la configuracion y no carga narradores ni idiomas, espero quealguien pueda ayudarme saludos
(2019-11-26) Алексей Попов: крутяк удобное приложение. работает.
(2019-11-11) Solar Energy: I really like the free version and it works great. My only complaint is that you have to buy the premium version for $24 / year to be able to control the pitch and the speed. I think these 2 things should be included in the free version and the paid version should be just for all the different languages....thus my reason for rating 4 instead of 5 stars.
(2019-10-20) Damian Demidov: настроил демо проситала ,потмо просто замолкла.. обновлял разное нажимал и нифга,другие работают ((
(2019-10-15) Erik: Neumí česky
(2019-10-03) Dustin Sharpless: Too slow and can't change the speed.
(2019-10-02) Zoran Zack Zilic: An amazing app. Finally, this is the first app that allowed me to change a type of voice.

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