Speechy

Wrapper for Paid High Quality Text-to-Speech (TTS) APIs like Google's Wavenet TTS. To use this extension, you need your API key.

What is Speechy?

Speechy is a Chrome extension that acts as a wrapper for paid high-quality text-to-speech APIs like Google's Wavenet TTS. With Speechy, you can read selected text, choose voice, and adjust voice speed.

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By: hmirin

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Users: 769 ▲ 12

Rating: 3.92 (12)

Version: 0.2.2 (Last updated: 2024-03-28)

Creation date: 2018-07-19

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

activeTab
contextMenus
storage
scripting
notifications

Host permissions:

https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/speech
https://texttospeech.googleapis.com/v1beta1/text:synthesize?key=*

Size: 476.16K

Email: ch*****@icloud.com

Ranking

# 34813 ▲ 52

Other rankings

#4728 in Tools ▼ 29 #97 in speech keyword 38 ▲ 6 #136 in text to speech keyword 69 #201 in speech to text keyword 26 ▼ 7

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Extension summary

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Wrapper for Paid High Quality Text-to-Speech (TTS) APIs like Google's Wavenet and OpenAI TTS. To use this extension, you need your API key.

Supported APIs
- Google Cloud Text-to-Speech API (includes WaveNet voices)
- OpenAI Text-to-Speech API
Feature
- Read selected text
- Choose voice
- Change voice speed (Only for Google)

User reviews

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Pros

Best voice quality using Google's WaveNet API.
Easy to set up and use for speech generation.
Great potential with additional features requested by users.
Helpful tool for language learning.
Clear instructions for obtaining the API key.

Cons

Requires a subscription to Google Cloud and API key, with some users finding it difficult.
Lacks control features such as volume, pause/play, and text highlighting.
Limitations like 5000 characters for a single voice generation query.
Not functional with PDF files as expected.

Most mentioned

Needs additional controls and features.
Requires an API key from Google's Cloud Platform.
Helpful for language learning.

Recent reviews

So you have to subscibe to a "free 90 day trial with Google Cloud" before you can even see how it works? And they want your phone number so they can "confirm where we can reach you about solutions to support your Cloud experience".

Zoran M, 2021-08-12

no have russian lang

Sandman, 2020-07-22

5000 characters limit for a single voice generation query (this limitation is set by wavenet, but a workaround could definitely be found if the author would like to find it). No stop button, no hotkeys in the documentation. And you must have got an API Key on WaveNet web site at first, which is not that easy.