GrayTTS Extension Chrome

(Beta) v1.0 2023-08 - Literally my first ever published chrome extension. Cross your fingers. A free simple straight forward TTS…

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Version

1.0

Update

August 24, 2023

Size

20.5KiB

Developer

GrayTTS Extension

(Beta) v1.0 2023-08 - Literally my first ever published chrome extension. Cross your fingers.

A free simple straight forward TTS extension with multiple voices, a right click menu, and a hotkey trigger. Just select your text and off you go!

I was unhappy by all the free TTS options out there. I made this for myself to help read emails and work documentation to me. Hopefully someone else finds it useful too.

1.) Is it ugly - Yes, everything about it
2.) Was this made by an artist with no programming experience - Yes, I went to art school and work in the game dev industry. This was mostly made by ChatGPT/Claude2.
3.) Has it been fully QA tested? Does it work? - No, and maybe...it works on my machine.

Things I want to add:
1. A pause and stop button - right now if you ask it to read a big doc the only way to stop it is to have it start reading another selection.
2. Customizable hotkey

Feedback is always welcome!

I will probably post the code up on github for others to improve/giggle at.

Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 3, "name": "GrayTTS", "version": "1.0", "permissions": [ "tts", "contextMenus", "storage" ], "background": { "service_worker": "background.js" }, "action": { "default_popup": "popup.html", "default_icon": { "16": "images/icon16.png", "48": "images/icon48.png", "128": "images/icon128.png" } }, "icons": { "16": "images/icon16.png", "48": "images/icon48.png", "128": "images/icon128.png" }, "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["http://*/*", "https://*/*"], "js": ["content.js"] } ], "commands": { "read_selection": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Ctrl+Shift+Y" }, "description": "Read selected text with GrayTTS" } }}