The coolest text-to-speech extension.
Reedr — Text-to-speech Chrome Extension
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.
Extension stats
Risk impact: Low risk impact
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Manifest version: 2
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Size: 39.29K
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# 49,615
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Extension 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!
Does not work. Instructions state to click the extension to open the toolbar but nothing happens. It is completely useless.
Extension safety
Risk impact
Reedr — Text-to-speech 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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