Voice Instead

Tired of reading long text? why not convert text to speech so that you can hear the text on websites?

This extension helps you select and speak text in your browser with the following two advantages:

(1) Voice Instead uses TTS(text to speech) engine in human voice quality.

(2) Voice Instead enables extremely long text to be read by a single click without a long delay, and the speech is very smooth!

(3) Voice Instead supports 10+ languages.

Usage:
Select text on any Chrome page (even PDF file!), right click, and select `voice instead'. Now enjoy the human voice quality speech!
Click Chrome upper-right pop-up icon to adjust API parameters.

Important Changes:

Version 18.10.23.67
	* Fix Responsive Voice API.

Version 18.09.18.66
	* Added Google WaveNet API option.

Version 18.07.21.65
	* Remove reading "open/close parenthesis".
	* Concise UI description

Version 18.07.01.64:
	* Ignore references formatted in square brackets, e.g. [2].

Version 18.07.01.63:
	* Offer option to show reading text at the bottom of tab page.

Version 18.06.30.62:
	* Fix IBM Watson API calling.
	* Handle voice loading error on UI.

Version 18.01.16.61:
	* Disable bottom captions according to user feedback (since it is distracting).

Version 18.01.15.59:
    * Fix jumping read if VoiceRSS API is used.
    * Better handle extreme long sentence without punctuation sign.

Version 18.01.15.57:
    * Randomly distribute API availability to reduce heavy traffic on top-rated API.
    * Change into subscription model.

Version 17.12.26.50:
    * Re-center loading box.
    * Introduce Amazon API to relieve heavy usage of IBM API.

Version 17.12.25.49:
    * Better split algorithm, best effort to avoid pause-in-the-middle problem.
    * Identify Chinese punctuation signs (in Unicode).
    * Change voicerss API voice_gap from 1.2 to 0.55
    * Set default shortcut key: 'Ctrl+Q'

Version 17.12.24.48:
* Display reading text.

Version 17.12.9.47:
* Enable to configure a keyboard shortcut for reading selected text.

Version 17.12.9.45:
* Provide speed option for IBM API. Introduce a new Baidu API.

Version 17.12.9.43:
* Rewrite framework, enable to read in background, and support more languages.

Version 17.12.1.41:
* Update IBM API URL, drop voicerss API temporarily because its "Referer" restriction.

Version 17.3.3.40:
* Fixed panel image style to avoid unintended CSS inheritance.

Version 17.2.22.39:
* Update responsivevoice API URL.

Version 16.107.17.36:
* Introduce IBM TTS API.

Version 16.105.10.34:
* Address the *pause-in-the-middle* problem by providing an additional parameter for user to adjust.

Version 16.103.11.30:
* User can now dismiss loading status.
* Panel bar is relocated to the bottom of page.
* Backward compatibility: choice for new and old TTS API.

Version 16.5.6.29:
* Use image button instead of font button on top panel.

Version 16.5.6.28:
* Fix a minor js issue.

Version 16.5.6.27:
* Make sure yellow window goes to the top (max z-index), also fix the "set to default" button issue.

Version 16.5.6.26:
* Fix first-time config data loading problem.

Version 16.5.6.25:
* New TTS APT, add speed, volume and voice options.

Version 15.10.15.24:
* Cancel Opera support as ogg/wav in Opera cannot get duration info. 

Version 15.10.15.23:
* Use ogg format audio to add support to Opera. 

Version 15.7.6.22:
* Added "pause" and "play" panel buttons. 

Version 15.3.29.21:
* Fix the issue: stop reading caused by '<' and '>'

Version 15.3.27.20:
* Fixed-size words font in panel and a non-anchor "stop reading" link.

Version 15.3.27.19:
* Better String Slice, handling reading pause point better even without comma/period signs.

Version 15.3.24.18:
* Better aligned "Loading" text.

Version 15.3.24.17:
* better top position method to prevent panel vibrating.

Version 15.3.24.16:
* add the "stop" link and panel bar on top of the page.

Version 15.2.17.15:
* remove the repeating speech when the text is all read.

Version 14.10.11.13:
* TTS API not working because of hostname moved, fixed the problem by using `www.' API hostname. And fixed the duplicated voice player in a page containing