Reedr — Text-to-speech

SUMMARY

A text-to-speech extension featuring incredible features such as sentence skipping, volume controls, speed controls, and more to come! Multi-task with ease. Too busy to read long-winded articles? Let Reedr read articles, messages, and more while you browse other tabs!

How to use:
- Go to a web page with selectable text
- Open the extension to display the toolbar (located at the bottom right of the screen)
- Drag and select (highlight) the text that you'd like to listen to
- Press play!

Version 1.1.1: (12/7/19)
* Adds tooltips when hovering over a button
* Adds a dedicated stop button
* Updates functionality of play / pause button. Pause will no longer reset speech synthesis. Now, it will pause speech synthesis. Clicking play will then resume playback.
* Updates app name
* Fixes some styling issues
* Miscellaneous improvements

Version 1.0.0: (11/26/19)
* Select a range of text to play
* Skip to the next sentence
* Go back to the previous sentence
* Set the volume for speech
* Set the speed for speech (0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0)
* Speech synthesis for English text
* Stop speech synthesis

The latest version of Reedr — Text-to-speech is available on the Chrome web and is currently being used by 326 active users. The initial version was launched on 2020-01-11.

HOW TO INSTALL Reedr — Text-to-speech FROM A CRX FILE

1. Download Reedr — Text-to-speech CRX file
2. NOTE: Sometimes the browser may block downloading / installing CRX file from outside the Chrome Web Store. If so, you may need to download the ZIP file instead
3. In the URL bar, go to chrome://extensions
4. Enable Developer mode

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