From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 21:32:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0699C106566C for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:32:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from geo.liaskos@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com (mail-qy0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC38E8FC19 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:32:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qcse13 with SMTP id e13so1841623qcs.13 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:32:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=avPM2rYulQh52JFrfrzk8tJJvg1sd9aOSmVnHIzyjSo=; b=Zr/1ZTxtcMLs5obkq2LQ0xspJFkpWAFw/tS+NCGMnRbrS66abpAeeeJWOyiLRlQQZq HVYXF5WVlTbFEYSaOuAIFy2VHhFO0N96xqLjA70EGZSIXWas8VPMKDOfOlxgi9xM5pXo 5Tztq5zZK+aQHzgJYXLLU862sLmGr0wcFVO1E= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.106.150 with SMTP id x22mr279683qco.143.1326402630591; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:10:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.224.208.195 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:10:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120112205104.GA5977@hemlock.hydra> References: <20120104165405.GF8500@hemlock.hydra> <8C0EEF92-18FD-45A8-90EF-F26EC8762704@googlemail.com> <20120104223046.GB4332@thought.org> <20120112205104.GA5977@hemlock.hydra> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:10:30 +0200 Message-ID: From: George Liaskos To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: Browser X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:32:27 -0000 On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Chad Perrin 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