Text-to-Speech (TTS) extension that transforms highlighted text into high-quality natural sounding audio using Google Cloud's…

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July 30, 2023

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4.59MiB

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Wavenet for Chrome Extension

Text-to-Speech (TTS) extension that transforms highlighted text into high-quality natural sounding audio using Google Cloud's Text-to-Speech.

You need to create your own API Key in order to use this extension (see the included video for instructions).

Features
- Support for all Google WaveNet, Neural2, News, Studio voices and languages.
- Adjustable pitch and speed.
- Download selected text to an MP3 file.
- SSML support
- Shortcut to read aloud (Cmd+Shift+S on macOS and Ctrl+Shift+S on windows)
- Shortcut to download selected text (Cmd+Shift+E on macOS and Ctrl+Shift+E on windows)
- Chunk selected text into sentences to bypass the 5000 character limit and lower usage cost.

Source Manifest.json

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User reviews

J L (ID: 000000a51ba5377e) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 10/15/2023 Very simple. Easy to use and really a brilliant idea. You should be proud of your work! Only thing is that, about 99% of the time, it doesn't do a single thing. No output whatsoever, no error message, nada. Even restarting the browser (or killing extension processes via system monitor) doesn't fix it. Since there's no documentation, I have no way to discover why this is happening or if the text I've selected might be breaking it or something. BB's version of your extension works for the same texts your extension fails at, and that's great and all, but his extension doesn't allow downloading for some silly reason! Perhaps related to the queuing, which I suspect is why that one works for me while yours doesn't, because I use it for long-form content. Regardless of length, though, once the extension decides to stop working, it won't work for anything, short or long. I do seem to recall an instance around maybe April, before the UI change, when I actually did receive an error message or two. Something about my sentences being too long. More documentation and more error messages would really be useful. If there's a tiny hint of an annoyingly entitled tone, by the way, it's just because your extension is so brilliant and it is totally frustrating that it won't work most of the time! :-( Really, take this as the highest praise. I want it and I can't have it, and it's driving me crazy! Thanks so much for making this. If you want to take it to the next level, figuring out a way to automatically rephrase texts that are incompatible with Wavenet (or the neural voices if there are any differences), as well as splitting up texts to skirt any length limits are probably the way to go. I've spent hours editing texts to get them to be compatible. It may seem silly, but it's for accessibility reasons, so it's worthwhile. I don't know if it's legal for you to make and sell one, but I would gladly pay $10 for a full application (assuming it's more reliable). But since you don't have one, is there a place people can donate to support this project? Thanks again for the wonderful extension—I just wish it were more reliable! Try out long texts to see if you can replicate the problem. If you want, I could send you a text file I know to be a problem for it, assuming you have contact info up on Google.

David Solomon (ID: 00000078a7bd76f9) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 10/10/2023 Awesome extension. The SSML feature is not fully working, I have created an issue in github. Can you please lookinto it. The read aloud works but the download does not work. It will be really helpful if you can fix it.

Ultimate Marketing Group (ID: 000000fd19392e64) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/09/2023 Fantastic extension, I love it. Nice and simple UI. Happy to see the extension get some updates, please keep it up. Wish it was available for firefox as well.

Imran Q (ID: 000000c352ae97b3) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 08/27/2023 I was using the read aloud extension and the google voices kept needing permissions from the demo site. This approach works much better and much more reliable! Amazing for reading articles and books especially when your eyes are tired or you want to take a walk!

Gowri Shanker “GS Bellu” Bellu (ID: 000000e4dcade477) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 08/11/2023 'Wavenet for Chrome' is the only chrome extension that I use. Simply superb. My heartfelt appreciation goes out to the developers for providing such a remarkable utility that greatly enhances my productivity.

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