Wavenet for Chrome

Chrome extension that transforms highlighted text into high-quality natural sounding audio using Google Cloud's Text-to-Speech.

Features

• Support for all Google WaveNet, Neural2, News, Studio, Polyglot voices and languages.
• Adjustable pitch and speed.
• Download selected text to an MP3 file.
• SSML support
• Shortcut to read aloud (Cmd+Shift+S on macOS and Ctrl+Shift+S on windows)
• Shortcut to download selected text (Cmd+Shift+E on macOS and Ctrl+Shift+E on windows)
• Chunk selected text into sentences to bypass the 5000 character limit and lower usage cost.
• Use your own Google Cloud API key or purchase credits directly.

Usage Costs

• If you're using your own Google Cloud API key, your usage will be billed through your Google Cloud account according to their pricing policy.
• If you're using purchased credits on each synthesis, the cost will be deducted from your available credits. Your credits will be automatically refilled when empty.

Development

Interested in contributing? Follow these steps to set up your development environment:

1. Install dependencies with npm install.
2. Run the backend of the project or change the BACKEND_URL in the build.js file at the root of the project to point to the production API (https://api.wavenet-for-chrome.com/v1).
3. Start the development server for the extension with npm run start:extension.
4. To run the website locally, use npm run start:website.

After running these commands, load the unpacked extension from the dist folder to your Chrome browser.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.