Select and Speak uses iSpeech’s human-quality text-to-speech (TTS) to read any selected text in the browser. It includes many iSpeech text to speech voices in different languages. You can configure the voice and speed options by changing the settings on the options page. Celebrity and character TTS voices are not included in Select and Speak at this time, but can be used through the Talkz application. Please request additional languages by contacting us.
Select and Speak includes the following languages:
English Male/English Female (American), Spanish Male/Spanish Female (Latin American), English Male/English Female (British), English Female (Australian), English Female (Canadian), French Male/French Female (France), French Female (Canadian), Portuguese Female (Portugal), Portuguese Male/Portuguese Female (Brazilian Portuguese),
Spanish Male/Spanish Female (Castilian), German Male/German Female, Italian Male/Italian Female, Dutch Female, Danish Female, Turkish Male/Turkish Female, Czech Female, Danish Female (Danish), Finnish Female, Russian Male/Russian Female, Swedish Female, Norwegian Female, Hungarian Female, Polish Female, Greek Female, Chinese Female, Korean Female, Japanese Female, Arabic Male
YOU MUST CONTACT US FOR COMMERCIAL USE - PERSONAL USE ONLY:
The Select and Speak Chrome Application is for non-commercial use only. You may not attempt to download or use the resulting audio for any purpose including but not limited to: ivr prompts, text to speech course materials, text to speech distribution, presentations, audio books, podcasts, radio, tv, text to speech web cast or any other broadcast.
To license iSpeech for commercial purposes, contact us info at iSpeech dot org, or through our contact form.
How to use:
- First select the text you want it to read
- Next, click the icon to start listening
- Click “stop” to stop listening at any time
Notes:
- This Chrome extension sends the text that you select to iSpeech servers using your Internet connection as it is Cloud TTS service (aka SaaS or Software as a Service)
For Developers:
- iSpeech offers free and paid API and SDKs for TTS, speech recognition and more. Please sign up and start using it
We are constantly optimizing and improving our text to speech conversion services and; In order to maintain this software we collect and leverage usage data. Learn more at http://www.ispeech.org/policies.php
