Text to speech is evolving. The implications of text to speech technology are really broad, especially for the specially challenged. Even for most of us, who love to tap away on our keyboards, giving our ears a chance over our eyes has some interesting benefits. For instance, we can absorb information when we are busy doing something else.
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Most of our information comes via our browser and that’s why the Google Chrome extension called Chrome Speak deserves a mention.
Chrome Speak can read aloud any selected piece of text within the browser. It uses the native text to speech feature of the operating system (Windows, Mac OS X, and Chrome OS). Chrome Speak does its bit to add some more handy ways to read long pieces of text. Just let it roll after selecting text and right clicking on the browser page and clicking on Read the selected text. Click on Stop reading to stop the voiceover.
Chrome Speak offers quite a few options to make the speech work for you.
Mar 28, 2010 Text To Speech is an excellent feature which allows Mac users to have words on screen spoken aloud. You can make your Mac talk to you in various different ways, at different speeds, and even speaking with different voices, all by using the powerful built-in Text-to-Speech abilities of Mac OS X.
1. Chrome uses the default voice available with the system, but you can add more to your operating system and select them from the Options under Chrome Speak.
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2. Chrome Speak comes with multilingual support including different versions of English and quite a few local dialects from India.
3. Chrome Speak comes with two queuing modes – Interrupt and Enqueue. But I couldn’t get them to work. Probably it’s a feature that’s still in the offing.
4. Chrome Speak gives you complete control over Rate, Pitch, and Volume. You can use the sliders to fine-tune the voice quality. You have to stop and start to see the changes take effect.
I use Chrome Speak to read aloud text when I am absolutely bored of reading or when I just don’t feel like reading an absolutely cluttered web page. How comfortable are you with artificial text-to-speech voices? Let us know if Chrome Speak will find a place in your browser.
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The number of text messages sent every day is more than the Earth's population.