Oribi Speak

Talking keyboard • High-quality speech synthesis • Word prediction • OCR

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Oribi Speak - Speech Synthesis Chrome Extension

Oribi Speak is a versatile Chrome extension designed to assist in reading and writing development. Leveraging high-quality speech synthesis from Acapela and Microsoft, it provides an audible output for selected text, sounds out individual letters, and voices words and sentences as they are typed. With built-in OCR, it can also read text from images. Oribi Speak offers smart word prediction for faster writing and spelling assistance, and its features are customizable, offering the ability to adjust speaking speed and choose from 90+ voices in 31 languages.

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Extension stats

By: https://oribi.se

Users: 200,000+

Rating: 2.90

(10)

Version: 3.0.10 (Last updated: 2025-02-27)

Creation date: 2020-06-25

Permissions:

activeTab
contextMenus
storage
scripting
alarms
identity
identity.email

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size: 1.92M

Email: ni*****@oribi.se

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 1,567 ▲ 82

Other rankings

#31 in Accessibility ▲ 1

#56 in trial keyword 4 ▲ 17

#162 in speech keyword 65 ▲ 13

#202 in speech to text keyword 37 ▲ 1

#208 in text to speech keyword 68

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Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Oribi Speak (v3.0.6)

7,343+ 3.00

(1)

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Smooth voices compared to other extensions
Good pronunciation, particularly in UK English accent
Generally works well for reading text
Highly recommended by several users

Cons

Frequent problems with text recognition and server connection
Issues with reading PDFs and certain online texts
Volume is too loud with no separate adjustment option
OCR functionality does not work at all
Does not read the entire marked text

Most mentioned

Problems with text recognition and server connectivity
Volume issues
Good pronunciation and voice quality
OCR not functioning
Recommendation from users

User reviews

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Kiwi, 2025-02-08

Vad är detta jag laddade ner den och nu babblar den utan att sluta väldigt störigt faktiskt jag har fått huvudvärk för en vecka nu.

Zeyneb Harb, 2024-09-18

Bra när den funkar men det är ständigt problem med att den inte kan identifiera text eller få kontakt med servern.

A Google user, 2024-02-27

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Oribi Speak requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of Oribi Speak. Use it at your own risk.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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