TabSpeech

Read the text on the displayed tab

What is TabSpeech?

TabSpeech is a handy Chrome extension for reading out the visible text on the browser tab. Users simply select the text range and activate the extension for speech reading. Additional controls like pause, stop and resume make it user-friendly. The developers are open to contributions on their GitHub page.

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By: IIMURA Takuji

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Users: 3,000+

Rating: 4.37 (19)

Version: 1.9.1 (Last updated: 2022-02-22)

Creation date: 2020-05-18

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab
contextMenus

Size: 90.09K

Email: li*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 17271 ▼ 148

Other rankings

#983 in Accessibility #138 in text to speech keyword 79 ▲ 24 #141 in pause keyword 12 ▲ 40 #254 in stop keyword 12 ▲

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Summary

Analyze keywords

Text-to-Speech the text in the displayed tab using Web Speech API.

Usage:

Select the range where you want to start reading
Click the PageAction icon (the black “reading” icon in the upper right) and press the “Speech” button

Press Stop to stop reading, Pause to pause, and Resume to resume from pause.

We are developing at: https://github.com/limura/TabSpeech/

The author is Japanese and can hardly speak foreign languages. I would be happy if you could help with translation work and other corrections. Please refer to the Japanese section for the detailed update history.

User reviews

User reviews summary

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Pros

Easy to use
Uses Microsoft TTS engine
Japanese language support

Cons

Flaky and buggy behavior
Difficulty with reading some websites
Limited functionality for some users

Most mentioned

Easy to use
Flaky and buggy
Japanese language support

Recent reviews

小説を自動読上げで聞くのに、アンドロイドの「小説を聞こう」が便利なので windows11で同様なアプリを探したが日本語対応の良いものがないようでした。　アクセシビリティの読み上げは長文を読ませるには全く向いておらず、短文での発音もおかしいので諦め。　次にアンドロイドエミュレータGlueStacksでwindows でも小説を聞こうを使おうとしましたが、 google標準のTTSエンジンが作動せず、動いたのは他の有料TTSエンジンだけ。 550-780円かけて無料のグーグルと大差ないようなので不採用。　クロムの機能拡張ならあるか？とTTSを検索してこれを見つけました。 TTSエンジン自体はwindows のものでアクセシビリティの読み上げと同じだが、この機能拡張から使用した方が区切りや句読点処理がまともに聞こえるようです。設定から辞書指定ができて、標準のままでWINの読み上げより賢い「読み」をします。 WEB小説で次話にページを進める機能などは無いので、WEB小説特化した、あるいはサイトの構成に対応する便利機能がつけば　★5

eguchonjapan, 2024-02-15

Hello, Thank you for this great extension. I have two requests. 1. Please make "Enable force scroll to speech sentence" option less aggressive. ie, please do NOT force-scroll too often. Please take a look at Read Aloud of MS Edge browser. 2. Please put a brief pause at the end of line breaks and carriage returns as if there is a period character so the two words in two different lines are not read as if connected. Thank you again for your effort!