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Wavenet for Chrome

by Michael Poirier-Ginter

v12 Updated Jul 30, 2023 4.59MiB
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10K
Users
★ 4.47
93 reviews
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⚠️Not updated in over 2 years

Description

Text-to-Speech (TTS) extension that transforms highlighted text into high-quality natural sounding audio using Google Cloud's Text-to-Speech. You need to create your own API Key in order to use this extension (see the included video for instructions). Features - Support for all Google WaveNet, Neural2, News, Studio voices and languages. - Adjustable pitch and speed. - Download selected text to an MP3 file. - SSML support - Shortcut to read aloud (Cmd+Shift+S on macOS and Ctrl+Shift+S on windows) - Shortcut to download selected text (Cmd+Shift+E on macOS and Ctrl+Shift+E on windows) - Chunk selected text into sentences to bypass the 5000 character limit and lower usage cost.
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Reviews (12 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-03-25
Agun

flat voice like robot

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-21
KAPER ENTERPRISES

Hindi audio now working properly (it's not reading)

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-20
sam c

worked for the first 3 tries then stopped working. I have tried to restart chrome and still nothing.

★☆☆☆☆2024-04-16
John Washabaugh

Yeah, I guess this is retired?

★☆☆☆☆2021-05-09
Matt S

Lmao they want to charge for this

★☆☆☆☆2021-04-16
Prayers for Pets1 NonProfit

Love google always keeps old instructions up and they dont make sense because they are outdated. If a blog did that google would have fits.

★★☆☆☆2025-09-09
Ez Medicine

i am not able to download mp3

★★★☆☆2026-01-09
Chau Vo

I’m unable to download MP3 audio files when I select the 3HD Chirp voice. I can still listen to the audio online when I click “Read Aloud”, but the download function does not work consistently. I’ve tried switching to other voices such as WaveNet or Standard, and downloading works normally with those options. However, the audio quality of 3HD voice is significantly better and cannot be replaced. I would really appreciate it if you could look into this issue and fix it. I’ve already checked my credit cards and my Google Cloud account, and there are no issues on my end.

★★★☆☆2023-06-01
Saleh Almhameed

Great work, is there any way to improve the quality of the downloaded files?? they are kinda bad.

★★★☆☆2021-06-22
Rishit Shah

we are getting below error please make one new video for the setup as google system has changes and please allow to do download it as wave There was an error fetching the list of voices. Make sure your API key is valid.

★★★☆☆2021-06-07
Alex Ruimy

Best extension in its class, thank you. Needs some improvements though: 1. If you enter the API key wrong (MacOS), you can't clear the textbox, so the wrong api message pops up every time the plugin window opens. That's all it does until you uninstall/reinstall. 2. Please allow us to regex the speech 3. Please add a setting to remove URLs from being spoken

★★★☆☆2019-12-21
Chris Banach

while the extension is great, when i try to open the downloaded MP3 in Adobe Premiere or Soundbooth or even Audacity, the file crashes. I get an "unsupported format or damaged file. the weird part is, as if the mp3 file itself changes because of the crash, because when i originally play it, it works well. then when i open it in Premiere Pro, it doesn't import it. But then, when trying to play it again, it plays random weird noises instead, like an audio tape playing accelerated or a disk scratch. the only workaround that bug i found is to first convert the file through an online audio converter (such as https://online-audio-converter.com thereby reducing the kbps for example to 192kbps. then you download the new file and voila! magically now your file is opened properly by Adobe apps an Audacity. Not sure what causes this bug, but it may have to do with my Nvidia graphic cards (i have two GeForce GTX 660 Ti configured through SLI), just an idea, because since my displays are spanned with surround, Nvidia doesn't recognize for example Audio from one of the two screens. anyway, fantastic extension, but it sucks to download mp3s i can't edit directly. a waste of time, but in the end i got it to work through my workaround.

Permissions (6)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu downloads Can manage and monitor downloads offscreen scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 12
Updated Jul 30, 2023
Size 4.59MiB
First Seen Mar 29, 2026