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Stats	TTS Engine using Google Translate™	skyZIP™ Proxy
User count	3,000+	90,000+
Average rating	3.21	4.47
Rating count	28	1,364
Last updated	2013-02-06	2017-12-07
Size	5.33K	73.69K
Version	1.0	0.8.3

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Uses Google Translate™ to provide a voice.	skyZIP™ acceleration and compression Proxy
Full summary
THIS EXTENSION INCLUDES NO USER INTERFACE. IT IS INSTEAD USED BY OTHER EXTENSIONS, WEBAPPS OR WEB SITES. EXAMPLE WEBAPP THAT USES TEXT TO SPEECH: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tts-demo/chhkejkkcghanjclmhhpncachhgejoel Chrome includes a text-to-speech system, which uses Microsoft's system built into Windows, or appropriate systems on other platforms. Additional voice engines can be written as extensions for Chrome. What do I do with a thing I have absolutely no knowledge about? Naturally, I go and hack around it. So using Google's Console TTS Engine example, I quickly whipped together something that uses HTML5 Audio to play sounds fetched directly from Google Translate's private, internal and absolutely in no way publicly documented text-to-speech service. Being an undocumented, private, internal API, this text-to-speech service may change or break any moment. Your use of this extension is at your own risk. Extension's code is nasty. Dead code was not removed. There's very obvious sentence splitting bugs. And I don't care. ;-) Google Translate is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.	skyZIP browser extension is perfect for anonymous internet access like a VPN service and can do even more and faster. skyZIP can reduce data usage by using high performance proxy servers to optimize webpages. Data savings are at about 50% Many web-sites are not optimized – but skyZIP is transcoding images to WebP lossless format, resulting images are 80% smaller. Content compression – deleteting of unnecessairy information in HTML, Javascript and CSS resources which are not essential combined with gzip compression is resulting in bandwdith savings for the users and operator. The use of an optimized protocol which is also the basis for HTTP/2.0 is in use between your browser and the Proxy server farm. Multiplexing multiple request and response streams in parallel over a single TCP connection which is reducing TCP handshake overhead for multible requests, higher throughput by removing TCP slow-start phase – increase of loading speed of webpages on already TCP accelerated environments is about 100% on non TCP accelerated systems up to 1000% Secure connections (HTTPS) are routed from your browser to the destination by saving one roundtrip per DNS request. DNS lookups are performed by Proxy Servers, no need for the Browser to wait for responses. – this is also reducing cpu load on the modem. Harmful webpages are blocked automatically in our Datacenter – will safe bandwidth, increase speed, will keep your computer away from phising web-sites See more