Speak based on Azure Speech Extension Chrome

A extension that play audio of selected text based on Azure Speech service. Support a lot of language.

Latest Version

Version

1.1

Update

April 18, 2024

Size

175KiB

Developer

Speak based on Azure Speech Extension

Text to speech (TTS) extension based on Azure speech. A extension that play audio of selected text based on Azure Speech Service. Support a lot of languages. You need to set the API key of Azure speech service.

Requirement:
- You need to have a Azure Speech Service already. The FreeTier of Azure Speech Service also works. 0.5 million characters free per month. You can create Azure speech service with this link: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-services/speech-services/

- Caption is based on Ghrome Live Caption ability

Support Languages List:
- English (US)
- Chinese (Mandarin, simplified)
- Arabic (Egypt)
- Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Czech
- Danish
- German
- Greek
- English (Australia)
- English (Canada)
- English (UK)
- English (Ireland)
- English (India)
- Spanish (Spain)
- Spanish (Mexico)
- Finnish
- French (Canada)
- French (France)
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Croatian
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malay
- Norwegian
- Dutch
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Romanian
- Russian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
- Chinese (Mandarin, simplified)
- Chinese (Cantonese, traditional)
- Chinese (Taiwanese Mandarin)

Updates:
1.1: fix issue with char '&'

Source Manifest.json

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