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: 739 ▲ 6

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

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 33177 ▼ 110

Other rankings

#3355 in Tools ▼ 6 #123 in speech keyword 78 ▼ 5 #169 in text to speech keyword 71 ▼ 11 #201 in speech to text keyword 45 ▼ 6

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Summary

Analyze keywords

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

User reviews summary

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Pros

High-quality Wavenet voices
The extension has great potential for language learning and text-to-speech tasks
Instructions for obtaining the API key are clear and it is easy to set up

Cons

Requires subscription to a 'free 90 day trial with Google Cloud' before use
Does not support Russian language
5000 characters limit for a single query and lacks some useful features like a stop button or text highlighting

Most mentioned

Need for an API key from Google's Cloud Platform
Lack of additional controls such as play/pause and voice speed adjustment
Potential improvements include adding hotkeys, highlighting text as it's read, and more robust navigation controls like next/previous sentence

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.

Arthur Bisle, 2019-10-01

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Safety

Risk impact

Speechy is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Speechy if you trust the publisher.