Ondoku (Voice Reading)
Extension Delisted
This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-16.
Turn selected text in a web site into voice speech using ResponsiveVoice.JS
### Summary
Text to speech extension for browsers, thanks to API by ResponsiveVoice.js.
The feature is simple.
When you make a text selection, the text speaks.
TTS(Text To Speech) functionality comes from ResponsiveVoiceJS.
So if you feel that this extension is useful, please give thanks to the original API provider http://responsivevoice.org
To toggle on/off this extension, please click a speaker button on the browser's toolbar button.
By default, this extension is disabled. So please switch on by clicking the speaker icon on browser toolbar
### Powered by
- ResponsiveVoiceJS for voice data [http://responsivevoice.org/]
- guessLanguage.js for detecting language of selected text [https://github.com/richtr/guessLanguage.js]
### Note
Please note that there are some languages with multiple associated voices like English.
You can configure which voice is preferred with those text.
For English:
- UK English Female (default)
- UK English Male
- US English Female
- Australian Female
For Portuguese:
- Brazilian Portuguese Female
- Portuguese Female (default)
For Spanish:
- Spanish Female (default)
- Spanish Latin American Female
For Serbo-Croatian:
- Montenegrin Male
- Serbo-Croatian Male (default)
- Bosnian Male
For Romanian:
- Moldavian Male
- Romanian Male (default)
Additionally, auto text language detection cannot identify text written in "Hatian Creole".
So if you would like to hear voice of Hatian Creole, please disable "Auto detect language" option and set the language manually.
### Supported voices
The original ResponsiveVoiceJS API supports:
- Afrikaans Male
- Albanian Male
- Arabic Male
- Armenian Male
- Australian Female
- Bosnian Male
- Brazilian Portuguese Female
- Catalan Male
- Chinese Female
- Croatian Male
- Czech Female
- Danish Female
- Deutsch Female
- Dutch Female
- Esperanto Male
- Finnish Female
- French Female
- Greek Female
- Hatian Creole Female
- Hindi Female
- Hungarian Female
- Icelandic Male
- Indonesian Female
- Italian Female
- Japanese Female
- Korean Female
- Latin Female
- Latvian Male
- Macedonian Male
- Moldavian Male
- Montenegrin Male
- Norwegian Female
- Polish Female
- Portuguese Female
- Romanian Male
- Russian Female
- Serbian Male
- Serbo-Croatian Male
- Slovak Female
- Spanish Female
- Spanish Latin American Female
- Swahili Male
- Swedish Female
- Tamil Male
- Thai Female
- Turkish Female
- UK English Female
- UK English Male
- US English Female (Default voice)
- Vietnamese Male
- Welsh Male
Latest reviews
This extension just doesn't seem to be working. It only reads in the UK English female voice, even when it's not set to auto detect. Also, it won't read in any other voice at all. For example, I selected the voice "Hindi female," and the voice wouldn't even speak.
doesn't work for romanian. i wish i could control the speed of the voice
Works like a charm. When you make a text selection, the text speaks.
Doesn't function. The control button that is supposed to be prompted upon highlighting text does not appear.
Nice but i want to change speak speed and i cant.
garbage
It's good, but it uses UK English when I select US English.
Very poor.. Its not working at all
Hi, I have to say, this is the BEST text to speech extension on the entire Web Store! What I REALLY like about your extension and what sets it appart from others is, that it can read ANY text and that it is able to auto detect languages!! This is so helpful, because I sometimes read (well, now not anymore :-D ) German text and sometimes English text, and it is pretty cool, that I don't have to switch languages manually... But I have some suggestions for improving your extension: 1. Add more German voices 2. Ability to read the whole page without having to select the text manually 3. Ability to control reading speed 4. Ability to select and read text, that is written in different languages (currently, it just reads everything with one language, without switching it...) Ok, thats it! I hope you can add these features... (Maybe just copy some code from other extensions) PS: Your ext. deserves more users...
Downloaded this awhile ago and love it! I use it to multitask whenever I don't feel like reading a page long blog I just highlight what I want it to read and I am able to do other stuff while it's reading. The program allows you to choose several languages and voices. For English I recommend the UK English Female voice option I find it sounds more real than the other voices and doesn't skip and mispronounce certain words. Just try to avoid any paragraphs with three or more periods because it will read those by saying dot dot dot which can be annoying.
Very nice, Small but great application. Please add also Nepali Language. Now it can be add. There is added now in google translation.
Japanese reading time is very short, about two lines of speed. Nevertheless, it is a good extension.
