Talk 2 Me

Reads highlighted text in the browser.
What is Talk 2 Me?
Talk 2 Me is a Chrome extension that adds a context menu item for reading highlighted text. It also provides a shortcut for easily starting and stopping the reading. The extension supports reading across multiple lines, but may have issues with certain text formats. Discover Talk 2 Me to effortlessly listen to selected text in your browser.

Extension stats

By: Reece
Users: 26 ▲ 1
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 1.0.0 (Last updated: 2019-11-19)
Creation date: 2019-11-18
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • contextMenus
  • storage
Size: 10.88K

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

This extension adds a context menu item when text is highlighted. There is another added while text is being read. There is a shortcut with ctrl+shift+space that will start/stop reading as well.

The extension reads all text across multiple lines so some formats prove troublesome (eg a reddit comment thread with small links between chunks of text).

known bugs: text containing "<" will stop reading at that character (possibly other characters that are not escaped)

User reviews

Does the job by using the now native SpeechSynthesis API? Fab! Thank you for this!

I found the hotkey. ExecuteFunction
by soul mate, 2018-08-04
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Talk 2 Me does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Talk 2 Me has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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