# How2Say > Browser addon to help in pronunciation of English words showing its IPA and playing its audio. Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/how2say](https://chrome-stats.com/d/how2say) ## Overview - **ID:** `how2say` - **Platform:** Firefox - **Type:** Firefox add-on - **Status:** Available - **Publisher:** Willian Carlos da Silva - **Category:** search-tools,language-support,social-communication - **Daily users:** 38 - **Weekly downloads:** 2 - **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (4 ratings) - **Version:** 3.12.0 - **Last updated:** 2026-07-30 - **First published:** 2025-02-09 - **Size:** 3.08 MB - **Data as of:** 2026-09-10 - **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/how2say/) - **Website:** [https://github.com/wcs7777/pronunciation-extension](https://github.com/wcs7777/pronunciation-extension) ## Description How2Say is a browser addon to help you to know how to pronounce a word showing its IPA and playing its audio. Formerly How2Pronounce, but I lost the access to the account. Features Configuration The addon experience can be customized through the options page. IPA and audios source order can be configured dragging the sources to change the priority, and enable/disable them. By now, the addon supports these API's, which all of them offer a free limit per month, only requiring to sign their site to get the key/token and provide in the options page, which will be stored only in your device. They are: - ResponsiveVoice (the only with a key by default) - Unreal Speech - Speechify - PlayHT (there is no free tier) - ElevenLabs - AmazonPolly (1 year of free tier) - OpenAI (there is no free tier) - DeepSeek (there is no free tier) Install here How2Say For developers Source code can be found here The files in ./src/bundle/*.js were generated with npx rollup --config --bundleConfigAsCjs rollup.config.js due module usage. It was used fflate to decompress the gzip IPA file in the installation. The script was downloaded from here https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fflate@0.8.2/umd/index.js and is in ./src/utils/fflate.js. It was used SortedJS in the options page. The script was downloaded from here https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Sortable/1.15.6/Sortable.min.js and is in ./src/utils/Sortable.min.js. It was used Compromise to get informations about the word. The script was downloaded from here https://unpkg.com/compromise@14.14.4/builds/compromise.js and is in ./src/utils/compromise.js. ## Rankings - #18,239 — Overall - #141 — show - #248 — deepseek ## Permissions and access ### Permissions - `downloads` - `menus` - `storage` - `tabs` - `unlimitedStorage` - `https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/*` - `https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/speech/` - `https://api.play.ht/api/v2/tts/stream` - `https://api.sws.speechify.com/v1/audio/*` - `https://api.v7.unrealspeech.com/*` - `https://api2.unalengua.com/ipav3/` - `https://assets.linguee.com/static/*` - `https://dictionary.cambridge.org/*` - `https://polly.af-south-1.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.ap-east-1.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.ap-northeast-1.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.ap-northeast-2.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.ap-northeast-3.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.ap-south-1.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.ap-southeast-1.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.ap-southeast-2.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.ca-central-1.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.eu-central-1.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.eu-north-1.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.eu-south-2.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.eu-west-1.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.eu-west-3.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.me-south-1.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.sa-east-1.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.us-east-1.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.us-east-2.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.us-west-1.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://polly.us-west-2.api.aws/v1/speech` - `https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/words.alexmeub.com/*` - `https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/*` - `https://texttospeech.responsivevoice.org/v1/*` - `https://translatormind.com/translator-tool/ipa-phonetic-transcription-translator/` - `https://translatormind.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php` - `https://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/*` - `https://www.linguee.com/*` - `https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/*` ### Content script matches - `*` - `dictionary.cambridge.org` - `www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com` ## Safety - **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact - **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood ### Analysis details - Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern. - This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe. > Some risk analysis details are omitted from this free response. 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