Chess.com Voice Commentary (improved)

Hear chess moves and annotation spoken as they are played on Chess.com.

Chess.com Voice Commentary (improved) - Enhanced Chrome Extension

Chess.com Voice Commentary (improved) is a Chrome extension designed to improve your gameplay on Chess.com. It provides immediate spoken alerts for each chess move and annotation, offering an immersive and interactive online chess experience. Despite not being an original development of Chess.com, it adheres to all copyrights of the official Chess.com platform. Ideally, this extension offers an improved user experience by fixing the issues that the original Chess.com Voice Commentary could not tackle.
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Extension stats

Users: 541
-15
Rating: 3.50
(6)
Version: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2021-05-31)
Creation date: 2021-05-25
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 16.94M

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Extension summary

Note from the publisher: Hi everyone, as you might have found, the Chess.com Voice Commentary extension doesn't work and hasn't been updated for some time. I made some fixes to get it working, sharing it here so more people can benefit.

Have a suggestion? Send a pull request along! Source code available here: https://github.com/rctay/chesscom-voice-deux

Have an issue? https://github.com/rctay/chesscom-voice-deux/issues

I do not claim any copyright, all copyright (eg. code, sounds) belong to Chess.com.

Release history: 1.0.0: initial release 1.0.1: use store icon in extension as well

User reviews

Doesn't work.
by Radu L., 2024-06-21

It doesn't even work
by Ansh Kabra, 2022-08-07

Can we have commentaries on move replays also? Would have loved it more if it had wider pool of voices to choose from. I want to hear girls reading me coordinates. Let there be Hatsune Miku!
by 뽜밹렄딬, 2021-11-01
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Chess.com Voice Commentary (improved) requires very minimum permissions.

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