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This text-to-speech Firefox add-on works well but the bookmarklet version is even better!
Anyway, I had a play with two solutions today, both based on vozMe's text-to-speech API. The first is a Firefox add-on that sneakily asks for contributions while not even crediting vozMe! Disgusting -- but still, the add-on works well. You can select blocks of text and convert it via the right-click context menu, or click the speaker in the bottom right corner of the browser. Right-clicking the speaker gives you a lot of options too: there are a lot of international languages available, and male or female voices!
The second solution, vozMe's own bookmarklet, is better for quick-and-dirty work. Bookmarklets are both more efficient and work with every browser. If you click through the languages in the top right corner, you can also create male/female bookmarklets for a variety of languages.
It's worth noting that the Firefox add-on also lets you download an MP3 of your text-to-speech clip! Also, the transliteration isn't very good -- some of vozMe's attempts at pronouncing English placenames were dire to say the least.
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Subscribe to commentssupermimaiMay 10th 2010 2:59PM
Actually I m looking for a TTS addon in the browser since a few days, and I have even started to evaluate to make my own. I m not blind but I need practice in english, and I think it is better to read some article in the browser with text to speech enabled and current spoken text hightlighted. Unfornutly I still didn't find a good text to speech addon, whatever if it is for firefox or ie or chrome. I know the market share of such app will be small unfornutly....
Emo1313May 10th 2010 11:36PM
I seem to remember Opera doing this a while back, with the Voice option which is built in. the ability to save an mp3 would be useful for long articles..
BuggerMay 10th 2010 10:45PM
Opera is also a browser, & it got Text to Speech function too.
Not only that, you can also use Voice Controlled Browsing.
Too bad the voice functions are broken in 10.5x version...
Brad IsaacMay 13th 2010 10:25AM
There is a great app that has plugins for IE and firefox that let's you do all of this. Text-2-go. Let's you use better voices too.
mvetnkSep 19th 2010 4:32AM
I have installed a text-to-speech toolbar from (http://www.panopreter.com) for IE, it can read the text on the web page aloud, or save the web page into mp3 or wav audio files. I will try this firefox toolbar too.