text-to-speech

This tool allows a user to select text on a web page and play machine generated speech.

Current version automatically grabs text from articles within the following websites if no text is selected:

1. Reuters
2. Rolling Stone
3. Washington Post
4. New York Times
5. CBC
6. LA Times
7. BBC
8. Yahoo News
9. The Economist
10. Harvard Gazette
11. Politico
12. NBC News
13. The Hill
14. Bloomberg
15. The Guardian
16. The Intercept

UPDATES: Content, speed and language is editable while the script is stopped, but not while paused.

Sub folders within this repo are other projects. The bookmarklet_selected_text_to_speech.txt file is the one you want.

Bookmarklet Install Guide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxrjK84XX_U

known bugs:

1. changing the language does not appear to work on Firefox
2. some users (just me) are experiencing a bug which prevents the cursor highlight from initializing on all languages aside from the default.