How to translate text to speech right in the Chrome browser

The need to convert text to speech occurs most often when you are busy at the moment and are not able to read, but it can listen to an interesting article. The second frequent option - you are learning a foreign language and want to hear the sound of a certain word or sentence. Both problems can be solved directly into the Google Chrome browser with special extensions for voice playback text in Web pages.

SpeakIt!

SpeakIt! reading dedicated to the currently open browser page, text using text-to-speech technology. The extension can read the text in more than 50 languages, including Russian. Voice engine utters the words with a noticeable accent mechanical, but is completely free.

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This extension is a product of fairly well-known online service that offers translation services text to speech. You can select any text on the page and take advantage of a special command in the context menu to play it. Another option - to listen to the whole article, in which case you may even get the opportunity to download the audio file in mp3 format. The disadvantage of the service is the inability to work with the Russian text, so that it is useful only to learn foreign languages.

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Select and Speak is very similar to the first expansion in this small survey. Similarly, you can select text on a page, click on the right mouse button and choose the command for displaying text. It is possible to use for this purpose and hot keys, the configuration of which is defined in the settings. Here you can specify the playback speed, and select the voice engine, some of whom are Russian.

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Select and Speak - "text to speech"

Developer: www.ispeech.org

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