Text Narrator

This extension narrates text on the page.

What is Text Narrator?

Text Narrator is an open source Chrome extension that uses Chrome's built-in Text-to-Speech API to narrate text on webpages. It has been tested on Windows 8 and OSX and is available on GitHub for source code and issue tracking.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2022-06-12

By: Jeffrey Yang

Users: 50,000+

Rating: 2.94 (54)

Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2014-01-20)

Creation date: 2014-01-20

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

contextMenus
tabs
tts
http://*/
https://*/

Size: 19.24K

URLs: Privacy policy

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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This is an open source simple text-to-speech narrator that uses Chrome's built-in Text-to-Speech API.

Tested on Windows 8 and OSX so far. Please report any issues.

Source code and issue tracking are available here: https://github.com/sajacy/textnarrator-chrome-extension

User reviews

Only thing I miss is to control read speed otherwise it is great. Don't read old reviews. Improvement has been done.

Ninad N, 2021-01-19

This was super helpful when writing my Wattpad story. I like to hear others read my stories to see how it sounds but I live alone and it was super late so this helped a lot!

shoto todoroki, 2020-09-23

Does exactly what I need it to. I have ADHD, which makes it difficult for me to focus on the words on the page. Listening to the text being spoken at the same time means that if I zone out and miss what I was trying to read, I have a fallback in being able to hear it too. What this does well for me in particular is that I can target which text I want it to read to me, letting me skip over things that are repetitive, irrelevant, and uninteresting, which are things that cause me to lose focus more often. Another benefit this has is that I can easily jump *backwards* too, letting me re-read text I lost focus on.

by Ella Threlfall, 2020-04-15

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