ListenIt - Google Chrome extension to automatically create audio versions of articles.
Hello! My name is Eugene, I created the ListenIt extension for the Google Chrome browser. The extension allows you to automatically create audio versions of articles, and readers to listen to them directly from the site.
It so happened that I have been using Google Chrome extensions for text dubbing for years, this is very useful for people with poor eyesight or just for those who don’t want to get stuck on page 1 without being able to do something else. Thanks to such extensions, it is possible to browse through your favorite site or go about your business while listening to some interesting article.
But all such extensions had a minus, basically the principle of their work was - select and listen. And it so happened that sometimes it was necessary to allocate different advertising banners in order to fully highlight and voice the article. Also in many extensions problems with normal Russian voice acting.
So the idea was born to create your own extension that can be adapted for each site separately without the need to select text, but simply by pressing a button and listening in a good Russian voice acting.
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To date, the extension has only the functionality of the voice of a certain number of sites, namely 5 sites.
The extension adds a button for voice in the extreme corner of the site, when you click on it, the voice of an open article begins.
For voice acting, Yandex SpeechKit is used , I have not yet found a good alternative for working with the Russian language.
The extension has a fairly simple interface, if the site is “voiced”, the extension will show with its full appearance that you can listen to the material from this site, or, on the contrary, you cannot.
At the moment, only 5 sites have been added in order to be able to properly track all possible errors for each site separately, if I added 20 sites at once with this would be more difficult, but plans to expand the number of sites in large numbers.
Also, from the functional now only one “play” button is available, which will also change, buttons will be added to rewind the article forward / back.
At the moment, the expansion is in the testing stage, there is no monetization, everything is done “for people from people”. I am sure that there will be errors that need to be corrected, for this I will be very grateful for the feedback about errors to the mail listenit.extension@gmail.com or in the comments. I will be glad to your suggestions on what sites to add and what changes to make.
PS Users from Ukraine may have problems due to the lack of access to Yandex
Idea
It so happened that I have been using Google Chrome extensions for text dubbing for years, this is very useful for people with poor eyesight or just for those who don’t want to get stuck on page 1 without being able to do something else. Thanks to such extensions, it is possible to browse through your favorite site or go about your business while listening to some interesting article.
But all such extensions had a minus, basically the principle of their work was - select and listen. And it so happened that sometimes it was necessary to allocate different advertising banners in order to fully highlight and voice the article. Also in many extensions problems with normal Russian voice acting.
So the idea was born to create your own extension that can be adapted for each site separately without the need to select text, but simply by pressing a button and listening in a good Russian voice acting.
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Expansion
To date, the extension has only the functionality of the voice of a certain number of sites, namely 5 sites.
The list of currently voiced sites
The extension adds a button for voice in the extreme corner of the site, when you click on it, the voice of an open article begins.
Voice button on meduza.io
For voice acting, Yandex SpeechKit is used , I have not yet found a good alternative for working with the Russian language.
The extension has a fairly simple interface, if the site is “voiced”, the extension will show with its full appearance that you can listen to the material from this site, or, on the contrary, you cannot.
Extension interface
Future plans
At the moment, only 5 sites have been added in order to be able to properly track all possible errors for each site separately, if I added 20 sites at once with this would be more difficult, but plans to expand the number of sites in large numbers.
Also, from the functional now only one “play” button is available, which will also change, buttons will be added to rewind the article forward / back.
Results
At the moment, the expansion is in the testing stage, there is no monetization, everything is done “for people from people”. I am sure that there will be errors that need to be corrected, for this I will be very grateful for the feedback about errors to the mail listenit.extension@gmail.com or in the comments. I will be glad to your suggestions on what sites to add and what changes to make.
PS Users from Ukraine may have problems due to the lack of access to Yandex
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/457804/
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