How2Say by Willian Carlos da Silva

Browser addon to help in pronunciation of English words showing its IPA and playing its audio.

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About this extension

How2Say is a browser addon to help you to know how to pronounce a word showing its IPA and playing its audio.
Formerly How2Pronounce, but I lost the access to the account.

Select a word or text
Right click to open the context menu and click the extension item
Or, in Firefox Android, click the extension menu, then the addon icon
✨ Magic ✨

Features

Show word IPA
Play audio pronunciation
Allow to provide custom IPA and audio through the options page
Works for texts
Allow enable/disable IPA/audio for words and/or texts
Allow control audio with a player for texts (enable/disable through options)
Allow control audio with shortcuts for texts (enable/disable through options)
Highly customizable through the options page

Configuration

The addon experience can be customized through the options page.
IPA and audios source order can be configured dragging the sources to change the priority, and enable/disable them.
By now, the addon supports these API's, which all of them offer a free limit per month, only requiring to sign their site to get the key/token and provide in the options page, which will be stored only in your device. They are:
- ResponsiveVoice (the only with a key by default)
- Unreal Speech
- Speechify
- PlayHT (there is no free tier)
- ElevenLabs
- AmazonPolly (1 year of free tier)
- OpenAI (there is no free tier)
- DeepSeek (there is no free tier)

Install here How2Say

For developers

Source code can be found here
The files in ./src/bundle/*.js were generated with npx rollup --config --bundleConfigAsCjs rollup.config.js due module usage.
It was used fflate to decompress the gzip IPA file in the installation. The script was downloaded from here https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fflate@0.8.2/umd/index.js and is in ./src/utils/fflate.js.
It was used SortedJS in the options page. The script was downloaded from here https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Sortable/1.15.6/Sortable.min.js and is in ./src/utils/Sortable.min.js.
It was used Compromise to get informations about the word. The script was downloaded from here https://unpkg.com/compromise@14.14.4/builds/compromise.js and is in ./src/utils/compromise.js.

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Permissions and dataLearn more

Required permissions:

Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history
Access browser tabs
Access your data for all websites

Optional permissions:

Access your data for api.datamuse.com
Access your data for api.elevenlabs.io
Access your data for api.openai.com
Access your data for api.play.ht
Access your data for api.sws.speechify.com
Access your data for api.v7.unrealspeech.com
Access your data for api2.unalengua.com
Access your data for assets.linguee.com
Access your data for dictionary.cambridge.org
Access your data for polly.af-south-1.api.aws
Access your data for polly.ap-east-1.api.aws
Access your data for polly.ap-northeast-1.api.aws
Access your data for polly.ap-northeast-2.api.aws
Access your data for polly.ap-northeast-3.api.aws
Access your data for polly.ap-south-1.api.aws
Access your data for polly.ap-southeast-1.api.aws
Access your data for polly.ap-southeast-2.api.aws
Access your data for polly.ca-central-1.api.aws
Access your data for polly.eu-central-1.api.aws
Access your data for polly.eu-north-1.api.aws
Access your data for polly.eu-south-2.api.aws
Access your data for polly.eu-west-1.api.aws
Access your data for polly.eu-west-3.api.aws
Access your data for polly.me-south-1.api.aws
Access your data for polly.sa-east-1.api.aws
Access your data for polly.us-east-1.api.aws
Access your data for polly.us-east-2.api.aws
Access your data for polly.us-west-1.api.aws
Access your data for polly.us-west-2.api.aws
Access your data for ssl.gstatic.com
Access your data for texttospeech.responsivevoice.org
Access your data for www.antvaset.com
Access your data for www.google.com
Access your data for www.linguee.com
Access your data for www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com

Release notes for 3.4.0

Code migration from manifest v2 to manifest v3.