Basic Text-to-Speech

Name: Basic Text-to-Speech
Author: Razmik

Reads articles aloud with a natural voice that runs on your own computer, highlighting each sentence as it goes. No account, no cloud, no tracking.

Overview

Firefox Add-ons Store

Daily users

Data as of 2026-11-11

Version:

0.1.0

Last updated: 2026-10-14

Features & Capabilities

Press the toolbar button on any article and Basic Text-to-Speech reads it aloud.

A natural voice that runs on your computer. It uses Piper, an open-source neural voice, inside the add-on itself. The page you are reading is never sent anywhere.
Follow along. Each sentence is highlighted as it is read, and the page scrolls with it.
Reads the article, not the clutter. Menus, ads, sidebars, share buttons and reference lists are skipped.
Simple controls. A small bar on the page lets you pause, skip & change speed. Drag it anywhere; it fades out of the way while reading.
Right-click to choose. "Read selection aloud" reads just the text you selected; "Read from here" starts at the sentence you clicked.
Six English voices to choose from in Settings.

About the voice download. The first time you read, the voice (about 60 MB) is downloaded once from Hugging Face and kept in Firefox. That is the only thing this add-on downloads, and nothing is ever uploaded.

Not supported: PDFs (Firefox does not allow add-ons inside its PDF viewer) and Firefox's own pages.

Basic Text-to-Speech is free and open source (GPL-3.0). If you find it useful, you can support its development with the Contribute button on this page — every feature stays free either way.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

Razmik

Daily users:

Version:

0.1.0 Last updated: 2026-10-14

Version code:

6565595

Creation date:

2026-10-11

Firefox add-on GUID:

basic-text-to-speech@razmikb

Firefox add-on numeric ID:

3093053

Weekly download count:

Firefox on Android:

Risk:

Permissions:

Content scripts matches:

<all_urls>

Size:

14.56MB

Email:

mi*****@mozmail.com

Website:

https://github.com/razmikb/basic-text-to-speech DR 97

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-11-11

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Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Firefox add-on. Please use these information below to contact the Firefox add-on developer.

Developed by:: Razmik
Firefox Add-ons Store: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/basic-text-to-speech/
Email:: mi*****@mozmail.com
Website:: https://github.com/razmikb/basic-text-to-speech

Is Basic Text-to-Speech Safe?

Risk impact

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Basic Text-to-Speech requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

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Basic Text-to-Speech is recently added, and hasn't been around long enough for us to gather enough data to accurately assess its risk level.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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