Text speaker

Pronounce selected text
What is Text speaker?
Text Speaker is a Chrome extension designed to pronounce selected text, helping those with visual impairments, small text readability, or multitasking. It allows users to select text, right-click to pronounce, and stop speech at any time. Additional functionalities include changing voices, adjusting enqueue, pitch, rate, and volume.

Extension stats

Users: 422 ▼ -6
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2022-05-04)
Creation date: 2022-05-03
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • tts
  • storage
  • contextMenus
Size: 51.28K

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

The extension is designed to pronounce selected text, which can be helpful to people who struggles with eyesight, read small-size text, doing 2 deals at the same time (like listening some text and writing email). You would need to:

  • select text you want to pronounce
  • put your mouth in this area
  • right click
  • Pronounce If you want to stop speech, you can do it at anytime by right-clicking on any other place (except selected area) > Stop speech

Additional functionalities that are available: change voices (that are available for your operating system), adjust enqueue, pitch, rate and volume.

Extension safety

Risk impact

Text speaker does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Text speaker has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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