# Text to Speech

> Read any selected text in the browser with human-quality text-to-speech (TTS) engines

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/tts-extension](https://chrome-stats.com/d/tts-extension)

## Overview

- **ID:** `tts-extension`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Brian
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,web-development,appearance,other
- **Daily users:** 152
- **Weekly downloads:** 7
- **Rating:** 1.94 / 5 (17 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.2
- **Last updated:** 2019-10-23
- **First published:** 2019-09-29
- **Size:** 151 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tts-extension/)
- **Website:** [https://add0n.com/text-to-speech.html](https://add0n.com/text-to-speech.html)

## Description

The Text to Speech Chrome extension enables users to effortlessly convert selected web text into natural, human-quality speech. Supporting both local and remote TTS engines, it ensures high-quality audio output in multiple languages.

Featuring a user-friendly interface, this extension allows pausing, resuming, skipping, and repeating spoken sections. Users can customize volume, speed, and pitch for a personalized listening experience, making it an ideal tool for accessibility, multitasking, or learning.

## Rankings

- #9,427 — Overall
- #6 — speech
- #8 — text to speech
- #10 — speech to text
- #58 — ai tech
- #123 — quality

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `activeTab`
- `notifications`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Enables sending notifications which can be spammed but have minimal direct security impact.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/tts-extension)