Talking Web

Select the text and let Talking Web read it for you.

What is Talking Web?

"Talking Web" is a valuable Chrome extension that uses Microsoft's Text to Speech (TTS) API to audibly read selected text on webpages. Ideally designed for those who are busy or have tired eyes, it allows users to absorb information while engaged in other activities. Additionally, it assists in learning foreign languages by facilitating pronunciation practices. Talking Web can interpret the structure of recognized pages such as Bing news for a seamless reading experience. It supports various languages and includes a feature to save spoken text as a wav file.

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By: speechlabs

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Users: 10,000+

Rating: 3.79 (257)

Version: 1.0.7.23 (Last updated: 2019-03-08)

Creation date: 2019-03-08

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

*://*.projectoxford.ai/*
*://xiaonacloudchat.cloudapp.net/Synthesize/SynthesizeVoice/*
*://speech.platform.bing.com/*
*://oxford-speech.cloudapp.net/token/issueToken
*://dc.services.visualstudio.com/*
contextMenus
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Size: 91.21K

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 7439 ▼ 66

Other rankings

#10385 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 78

#64 in web keyword 86 ▲ 61

#179 in text to speech keyword 71 ▲ 13

#189 in speech keyword 78 ▲ 21

#191 in listen keyword 15 ▲ 11

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Summary

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Talking web is a simple plugin that can read out web pages to you with TTS technology.

When you are eye busy or eye tire but still want to get information on the web, talking web can help you.

With Microsoft text to speech (TTS) API, talking Web can read web pages for you, so that you can do other things while listening.

You can also learn to speak word or sentence in foreign languages with talking web.

Talking web can smartly detect the web pages it knows such http://www.bing.com/news to read out the content in a structure way with text to speech engines.

Talking web supports multiple languages so you can switch the language you like to listen via the setting panel.

Usage:

Select the text you want Talking Web to read, a read icon will appear.

User reviews

User reviews summary

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Pros

Cons

Does not work
No Support from developers
Possible data collection
No voice output
No reaction when clicking on reading function

Most mentioned

Does not work
No voice output

Recent reviews

好用，但長期無聲。。。。

A Google user, 2019-02-01

突然不能用了有人知道該怎麼解決嗎?

無道, 2018-06-26

服務不可用

SIAO-YUN HONG, 2018-04-19

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Safety

Risk impact

Talking Web 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 Talking Web if you trust the publisher.