Developer(s) Davide Baldini Written in Javascript | Development status Active Operating system | |
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Initial release 20 October 2014; 2 years ago (2014-10-20) Stable release 2.3 / 14 March 2015; 23 months ago (2015-03-14) | ||
Automatik Text Reader is a free and open source plug-in for Firefox providing text-to-speech functions available from the Mozilla Add-ons collection. It supports multiple languages and accents and is capable to autonomously recognize the language of written text and activate the respective speech synthesis engine. Amongst the peculiar features, the voice speed is adjustable and the text selection is automatic. In addition to the unique features users will find that the interface is very simple to use; having only 4 buttons to operate it.
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Supported languages
Automatik Text Reader has support for English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Russian. The quality of the synthesis varies significantly between the languages though, with English being the smoothest, most natural-sounding voice.
Limitations
Being a Firefox plug-in, Automatik Text Reader requires Firefox to run and cannot be installed standalone. Also, for very short texts composed of three words or less, the language detector may fail to recognize the correct language.