ReadSpeaker® TextAid for Firefox by Readspeaker

Use text-to-speech for reading, writing and studying. Just select, click and listen and ReadSpeaker TextAid Add-on allows you to listen to web pages, Google Docs and Microsoft Word Online pages. Even listen as you write.

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1.8 (15 reviews)

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About this extension

Listening to the web is easy! Use text-to-speech for reading, writing and studying.

Whether for school, work, or home, having text read out loud in a natural sounding voice while following along with highlighted text improves comprehension and allows you to consume content as you prefer. Just select, click and listen and ReadSpeaker TextAid Add-on allows you to listen to web pages, Google Docs and Microsoft Word Online pages. Even listen as you write.

ReadSpeaker TextAid Add-on enables a toolbox* giving you text-to-speech capabilities such as:

- Listening to web pages, Google Docs and Microsoft Word Online pages.
- Listening as you follow along with the highlighted text
- Reading selected sections or entire pages
- Writing assistance tools
- Personalized settings for highlighting, reading speed, color combinations
- User friendly interface
- Available in American, British and Australian English, Latvian, Dutch, Belgian Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.

*Please make sure that you are logged into your ReadSpeaker TextAid account.

Haven’t got a ReadSpeaker TextAid subscription? Go to http://textaid.readspeaker.com/ and sign up for a free trial.

Developer comments

Add-on reads and highlights selected text. Internet connection is required, because Readspeaker TTS servers are used. There are 3 types of page parsers there: for google docs writer, word online, and other pages. PDF files are supported with
pdf.js Library. PDF file is opened with default browser pdf reader. When you open add-on window, then document is redirected to extension - and then it can be read.
Writing assistance works in Word online and Google docs. Then key event are used for spelling letters. When Add-On is closed or service is off, key event listener is registered, but events are ignored.
PDF reading library - pdf/rspeaker.js - that is just concatenated scripts for "other pages" parser + some compatibility scripts to make it work without the Add-on API

Rated 1.8 by 15 reviewers

Release notes for 1.2.9

- Added new UI language Latvian.

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