Reedr — Text-to-speech
The coolest text-to-speech extension.
What is Reedr — Text-to-speech?
Reedr — Text-to-speech is a Chrome extension that features incredible text-to-speech functionality, including sentence skipping, volume and speed controls. It allows you to multi-task by listening to articles, messages, and more while browsing other tabs.
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By: John Brown
Creation date: 2020-01-11
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- activeTab
Size: 39.29K
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Summary
A text-to-speech extension featuring incredible features such as sentence skipping, volume controls, speed controls, and more to come! Multi-task with ease. Too busy to read long-winded articles? Let Reedr read articles, messages, and more while you browse other tabs!
How to use:
- Go to a web page with selectable text
- Open the extension to display the toolbar (located at the bottom right of the screen)
- Drag and select (highlight) the text that you'd like to listen to
- Press play!
Version 1.1.1: (12/7/19)
- Adds tooltips when hovering over a button
- Adds a dedicated stop button
- Updates functionality of play / pause button. Pause will no longer reset speech synthesis. Now, it will pause speech synthesis. Clicking play will then resume playback.
- Updates app name
- Fixes some styling issues
- Miscellaneous improvements
User reviews
Yay!Finally have free text to speech addon!
by
Yan Yan, 2021-08-09
Does not work. Instructions state to click the extension to open the toolbar but nothing happens. It is completely useless.
by
Jamie Johnson, 2020-11-28
Does not work
by
Your Boi Rj, 2020-10-27
Safety
Risk impact
Reedr — Text-to-speech is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Reedr — Text-to-speech has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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