Re: Browser

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:
>>
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 i hope this isn't too far offtopic, but here's the
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 situation: i need a tts reader to read text to me i=
n some
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 cases. =C2=A0i have been using one that is good-eno=
ugh. =C2=A0but it's
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 author says that this firefox 'addon' will not work=
 with
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 firefox-9. =C2=A0So: does anybody know of a browser=
 with a
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 builtin text-to-speech reader? =C2=A0i have searche=
d ff and found
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 no other such readers.
>
> I was hoping someone else might have an answer to this. =C2=A0I 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". =
=C2=A0I
> 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. =C2=A0Good 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,
George
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