Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Make Firefox speak for you

Ever thought how great it will be if your browser reads the text on a webpage for you?? We read huge articles on internet. How amazing it will be if instead of reading them we can simply listen to them?? It happens that while reading we come across a word which we find difficult to pronounce. How easy it will be if our browser reads it for us to understand how it needs to be pronounced??

Well, it is now possible in Firefox using Text to Voice add-on which simply reads the selected text for you. It seriously makes your life simple in many ways.

Lets start with Text to Voice
Restart Firefox once the installation completes.
Open up any webpage and select the text you want to convert from text to voice and click the button on the bottom right corner.
Clicking on the button opens up another tab which would create an mp3 out of the text selected.

Once the mp3 creation is done it will start playing the mp3 file for you.

You can even save the mp3 file generated on your machine for future references by clicking Download mp3 link and specifying the path where it needs to be saved.

To conclude, this is really a must have add-on for people who read lots of articles over the internet. Very helpful as you can save the mp3 files and listen to them later any time you want to.

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