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

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Users: 320

Rating: 2.75 (4)

Version: 1.1.1 (Last updated: 2020-01-13)

Creation date: 2020-01-11

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab

Size: 39.29K

Ranking

# 46096 ▼ 102

Other rankings

#2415 in Accessibility ▼ 4

#14 in speech keyword 50 ▲ 2

#29 in text to speech keyword 64 ▼ 2

#74 in speech to text keyword 26 ▼ 7

#82 in pause keyword 12

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Extension summary

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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