Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:10:30 +0200 From: George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Browser Message-ID: <CANcjpOBpgjs-DaC0wSgJ-XmTj7SrQ7s6NLYyL_JFBV_B6cnC3w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120112205104.GA5977@hemlock.hydra> References: <CAHsiZG-op0MO79qaWG2gRLYLeaTKcip8iabQ%2B0AYQVK7iDZ5pg@mail.gmail.com> <20120104165405.GF8500@hemlock.hydra> <8C0EEF92-18FD-45A8-90EF-F26EC8762704@googlemail.com> <20120104223046.GB4332@thought.org> <20120112205104.GA5977@hemlock.hydra>
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 02:30:46PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: >> >> i hope this isn't too far offtopic, but here's the >> situation: i need a tts reader to read text to me in some >> cases. i have been using one that is good-enough. but it's >> author says that this firefox 'addon' will not work with >> firefox-9. So: does anybody know of a browser with a >> builtin text-to-speech reader? i have searched ff and found >> no other such readers. > > I was hoping someone else might have an answer to this. I figured I'd > chip in at this point just to say that I don't know of any mainstream > browsers, nor any browsers that I've tried out to see if they'd make a > good replacement for Firefox, that does any text-to-speech "natively". I > think I remember hearing about such a beast a while back (three or four > years), but do not recall anything about it due to the fact I do not need > one. Good luck in your search. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Chrome has a native tts API that extension authors can use, http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tts.html I tried some random extension from the Chrome Web Store and it is working really well. Regard, Georgehelp
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