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Simple Tts

👥 9 users
📦 v2.4.2
💾 111KiB
📅 2026-05-19
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Overview

Simple TTS is a text-to-speech tool designed to be lightweight, private, and highly functional. It transforms any text on the web into audio using your browser's native text-to-speech engine, ensuring your data never leaves your device.

Key Features:

🎙️ Natural and Private Reading: Uses the native chrome.tts API. No intermediary servers, no API costs, and complete privacy.

👁️ 3 Display Modes:
Floating Mode: An elegant player that appears on top of the webpage.
Window (Pop-out): Separates the player into a distinct window, ideal for multitasking.

Background Mode: Listen to the text while browsing other tabs without visual distractions.

⏩ Full Control: Easily adjust the reading speed (0.5x to 2.0x), pause, resume, or restart sentences.

📝 Reading Queue: Select multiple texts and add them to the queue (right-click > "Add to queue") to listen to them one after the other.

🎨 Themes: Supports Light and Dark modes, adapting to your system.

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts:
Alt+R: Read selection.
Alt+P: Pause/Resume.
Alt+S: Stop reading.

Why Simple TTS? Unlike other extensions that rely on cloud services (slow and less private), Simple TTS works offline* and is extremely fast. Ideal for students, researchers, or anyone who prefers to listen to articles while multitasking.

(Offline functionality depends on the voices installed on your operating system.)

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Privacy Practices

Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

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