Select and Speak

What is Select and Speak?

Select and Speak is a Chrome extension that enables users to select any text on a webpage and have it read aloud. It offers a convenient way to enhance accessibility by providing a simple right-click option to start and stop the text-to-speech feature. The extension is ad-free, privacy-focused, and solely dedicated to reading selected text without any tracking or additional functionalities.

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Extension stats

By: D

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 3,000+

Rating: 3.00 (2)

Version: 1.8.0 (Last updated: 2024-10-08)

Creation date: 2022-02-15

Risk impact: Very low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

activeTab
contextMenus
tts
storage

Size: 11.67K

Email: sp*****@bigdork.net

Ranking

# 19234 ▼ 38

Other rankings

#1140 in Accessibility ▲ 1 #51 in selection keyword 26 ▼ 1 #173 in text to speech keyword 70 ▲ 1 #206 in speech to text keyword 25 ▼ 3

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Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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Select to Speak extension for accessibility.

Select any text in Chrome and then right click while still selected. Select the "Start Speaking" option. Right click again and select "Stop Speaking" to stop at any time. Adjust values in the settings panel.

If the page has disabled text selection or context menus, you can try to remove the blocks using the buttons in settings, or copy and paste text into the extension pop-up and press the Speak button.

All client-side processing unless you have installed a 3rd party voice extension which uses network rendering.

No ads, no tracking, no other functionality, nothing but reading selected text.