Add-ons
Read2Me "speechify the web" 1.7.4 Requires Restart
by Jim Massey
Webpage and email to speech extension using festival or any speech engine that can handle plain text files. This version has removed the option to use the embedded Flite-1.4 component on linux.
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About this Add-on
read2me reads entire web pages or selected text.
- On Mac read2me uses the Say command.
- On Linux read2me can use Festival or the embedded flite-1.4 xpcom component that comes with the read2me addon.
- - The flite-1.4 component is fast and has the ability to:
- - - Pause speech
- - - Stop speech
- - - 4 built-in in voices
- - - Requires no additional(external) speech synthesis program. The nsIFilte component has the full filte-1.4 embedded. Of course this does make read2meFilte a rather large download.
Note that version 1.7.4 has the flite component removed, awaiting an update
The read2me addon is also available from read2me.mozdev.org This is where you will find the latest version of read2me and versions for other operating systems. There are also other versions that do not include the xpcom component(so download is small) available at the read2me.mozdev.org site
The nsIFlite xpcom component can be used independent of read2me. it is documented at The Kiosk Project wiki
- On Mac read2me uses the Say command.
- On Linux read2me can use Festival or the embedded flite-1.4 xpcom component that comes with the read2me addon.
- - The flite-1.4 component is fast and has the ability to:
- - - Pause speech
- - - Stop speech
- - - 4 built-in in voices
- - - Requires no additional(external) speech synthesis program. The nsIFilte component has the full filte-1.4 embedded. Of course this does make read2meFilte a rather large download.
Note that version 1.7.4 has the flite component removed, awaiting an update
The read2me addon is also available from read2me.mozdev.org This is where you will find the latest version of read2me and versions for other operating systems. There are also other versions that do not include the xpcom component(so download is small) available at the read2me.mozdev.org site
The nsIFlite xpcom component can be used independent of read2me. it is documented at The Kiosk Project wiki
Reviews
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This is the only working TTS plugin I've found to work in ubuntu 10.10. It would be nice if it could use the cepstral swift engine. The generic festival voices are pretty crummy. It would also be nice to have a way to adjust the volume and rate.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Working Like a charm on Linux ubuntu 10.10 % firefox 3.6 Thanks
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Works great with Firefox 3.5 & Festival running under Linux Mint 8. Great for proofreading!
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