WaveNet for Chrome

A wrapper for Google Cloud’s text-to-speech services that transforms highlighted text into high-quality natural sounding audio.

How to use

• Download the chrome extension in the Chrome store.
• Generate an API Key using Google Cloud's Console.
• Paste the API Key in the extension's popup menu.
• Right click on highlighted text and click "Read this by WaveNet for Chrome".

Note: Although WaveNet for Chrome is a free extension and Google Cloud's text-to-speech services offer the first 1 million characters free of charge, the regular pricing is $16.00USD per 1 million characters.

Features

Currently available

• Support for all Google WaveNet voices and languages.
• Ajustable pitch and speed.
• Download selected text to an MP3 file.
• SSML support
• Shortcuts to start speaking (Cmd+Shift+S on macOS and Ctrl+Shift+S on all other platforms & modfiable through the following URL: chrome://extensions/shortcuts).

Suggested features

• Split large queries into smaller one to prevent the 5000 character limit.
• Live sentence highlighting.
• Skip or replay sentences and paragraphs.
• Multimedia functions with onscreen display.

Development build

npm install
npm run watch

Production build

npm run build

You can then load the unpacked extension from the dist folder.

License

MIT