Chrome Speak is a text to speech translator add-on for Google Chrome and works on Windows, Mac OS X and Chrome OS.
It uses the speech synthesis features on each of these operating systems and functions as a speech engine. Since it works offline, the text-speech function is very quick with no lag.
What this means is that any selected text can be read out aloud when accessing websites in Google Chrome.
Download and install Chrome Speak from here.
After it is installed, simply select the line(s) of text that need to be converted to speech, right click and choose “Read selected text”.
To customize speech settings, access Control Panel and choose “Speech Recognition”.
Over here, from the “Text to Speech” tab, change various settings like voice type, voice speed and so on as needed.
Very cool and useful add-on. 🙂
Happy Chrome Speak-ing!