Select the text and let Talking Web read it for you.

Latest Version

Version
1.0.7.23
Update
March 8, 2019
Size
89.07KiB
Developer
Category
Users
10,000+
Rating
3.77432 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
Deutsch
English
English (UK)
English (United States)
Français
Español
Italiano
Português (Brasil)
русский
中文 (简体)
中文 (繁體)
日本語
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Permissions
*://*.projectoxford.ai/*
*://xiaonacloudchat.cloudapp.net/Synthesize/SynthesizeVoice/*
*://speech.platform.bing.com/*
*://oxford-speech.cloudapp.net/token/issueToken
*://dc.services.visualstudio.com/*
ContextMenus
Downloads
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Talking Web Extension

Talking web is a simple plugin that can read out web pages to you with TTS technology.

When you are eye busy or eye tire but still want to get information on the web, talking web can help you.

With Microsoft text to speech (TTS) API, talking Web can read web pages for you, so that you can do other things while listening.

You can also learn to speak word or sentence in foreign languages with talking web.

Talking web can smartly detect the web pages it knows such http://www.bing.com/news to read out the content in a structure way with text to speech engines.

Talking web supports multiple languages so you can switch the language you like to listen via the setting panel.

Usage:

1. Select the text you want Talking Web to read, a read icon will appear.
2. Right-click the selected text or click the icon, Talking Web will read the selected text for you.

1.0.7.11 Uapdate:

1. Add read www.bing.com/news feature. Open bing news, you will see a read icon. Click the icon, Talking web will read news for you.
2. Add save wav feature, right-click the selected text, you can save the wav file for it.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 2, "name": "__MSG_appName__", "version": "1.0.7.23", "default_locale": "en", "description": "__MSG_appDesc__", "icons": { "48": "images/icon48.png", "128": "images/icon144.png" }, "browser_action": { "default_icon": "images/icon48.png", "default_title": "Talking Web", "default_popup": "popup.html" }, "background": { "page": "background.html" }, "permissions": [ "*://*.projectoxford.ai/*", "*://xiaonacloudchat.cloudapp.net/Synthesize/SynthesizeVoice/*", "*://speech.platform.bing.com/*", "*://oxford-speech.cloudapp.net/token/issueToken", "*://dc.services.visualstudio.com/*", "contextMenus", "downloads" ], "content_scripts" : [ { "matches": [""], "js": ["js/select.js"], "all_frames": true , "run_at": "document_end" }, { "matches": ["*://*.bing.com/*"], "include_globs": ["*.bing.com/news*"], "css": ["css/content_js.css"], "js": ["js/lib/jquery-2.1.4.min.js", "js/bingnews.js"], "all_frames": true, "run_at": "document_end" } ], "web_accessible_resources": [ "images/icon48.png" ], "content_security_policy": "script-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval'; object-src 'self'", "minimum_chrome_version": "35.0"}
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