Convert Text to Speech Offline with TTFox Firefox browser extension

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Text-to-speech communication (TTS) applications translate digital text into spoken give-and-take. This ability enables a user with a disability to read things finer. Fortunately, with the rapid advances in technology, at that place are dozens TTS tools available for nearly every digital device. The argue however is, which of them is the best. Well, on the surface, well-nigh of them only offer the ability to hear the text that is written but there can exist many more benefits stemming from TTS. For instance, the ability to enhance sentence correction, proper word pronunciation, and the power to work fifty-fifty when offline. TTSFox is a new add-on for the Firefox browser that is designed to works even when the machine is offline.

TTSFox for Firefox Browser

TTSFox is a new Firefox add together-on that allows a user to hear whatever textual content that he highlights. The add-on is a WebExtension, suggesting information technology will exist compatible with future versions of the browser.

When you outset add the extension to Firefox, an icon gets added to the infinite side by side to the accost bar every bit shown in the screenshot below.

Now, if you are on a web page whose contents you want to exist read out, Click the toolbar icon and key-in text, then click "Speech" button.

Next, select the text on a web page > click mouse right push > click "Speech" detail on context menu > click "Speech" button.

When you lot ostend the activeness, the main interface of the extension is displayed. The highlighted text is added in the side by side text field automatically. The left pane lists the available speech engines, alongside iii sliders,

Modify the pitch
Change speed
Conform volume

The default phonation for the app is dependent upon the operating system in use. For example, the default voice sample for operating systems running Windows x is Microsoft David and Microsoft Zira. The showtime is a male person voice, the 2nd a female voice.

A uncomplicated click on the voice communication button starts the performance of reading out text aloud. You lot can suspend the operation anytime by clicking 'Cancel' pick.

The improver works better than Firefox's Reader Fashion. However, you need to highlight text every fourth dimension you utilise the extension. Reader Mode, on the other hand, works differently. It automatically reads out all text aloud once the page'southward converted to a better readable copy. And then, now, you lot tin easily catechumen eBooks to audiobooks and listen to them on long drives.

You tin can download TTFox extension for Firefox from here.

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A post-graduate in Biotechnology, Hemant switched gears to writing about Microsoft technologies and has been a contributor to TheWindowsClub since then. When he is not working, you can usually find him out traveling to different places or indulging himself in binge-watching.