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Select and Speak

by D

v1.8.0 Updated Oct 8, 2024 11.4KiB
CWS
9K
Users
★ 3.50
10 reviews
#3259
of 79.3K
accessibility
#180 of 2.5K
⚠️Not updated in over a year

Description

Select to Speak extension for accessibility. Select any text in Chrome and then right click while still selected. Select the "Start Speaking" option. Right click again and select "Stop Speaking" to stop at any time. Adjust values in the settings panel. If the page has disabled text selection or context menus, you can try to remove the blocks using the buttons in settings, or copy and paste text into the extension pop-up and press the Speak button. All client-side processing unless you have installed a 3rd party voice extension which uses network rendering. No ads, no tracking, no other functionality, nothing but reading selected text.
Select and Speak screenshot 1

Reviews (3 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-05
Zhiqing 芷晴 (Kelly)

Didn't work for me. I'd click for it to speak and nothing would happen.

★☆☆☆☆2025-05-17
Shawn Robertson

It didn't work very well on the flatpak Chrome I installed on my Steam Deck. It kept looping the first 3-ish words and wouldn't read the whole paragraph, even if copy-pasted into the text box on its dialogue/settings window.

★☆☆☆☆2023-04-05
Johny Why

The screenshot shows "Google US English" , but that voice is NOT available. Only the robotic voices.

Permissions (4)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu storage Can store data locally in your browser tts Can use text-to-speech

Details

Version 1.8.0
Updated Oct 8, 2024
Size 11.4KiB
First Seen Mar 26, 2026