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🗣️ Simplify & Speak – Chrome Extension

A Chrome extension that simplifies complex English text and speaks it aloud using AI.


✨ Overview

Simplify & Speak helps users — especially children, non-native English learners, and people with reading difficulties — better understand complex English text.

With just one click, the extension:

  • 🧠 Simplifies selected text using Gemini AI
  • 🔊 Converts the simplified version to speech using the Murf API
  • 🎧 Plays it aloud right in the browser

🚀 Features

  • ✅ Select any text on a webpage
  • ✅ AI-powered text simplification (via Gemini Pro)
  • ✅ Natural voice output using Murf Text-to-Speech
  • ✅ One-click "Speak" experience
  • ✅ Easy-to-use Chrome Extension interface

🛠️ Tech Stack

  • 🌐 Chrome Extension (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
  • 🔙 Node.js + Express backend
  • 🤖 Gemini Pro (Google Generative AI)
  • 🎙️ Murf AI TTS API

🔊 How It Works

  1. User selects complex text on any webpage
  2. Clicks the "Speak" button in the extension
  3. Text is sent to a backend server
  4. Gemini simplifies the sentence
  5. Simplified version is sent to Murf API
  6. Audio file is returned and played in the browser

🧪 Example

Original:
Recursion is a programming technique where a function calls itself, allowing problems to be solved by breaking them down into smaller sub-problems.

Simplified:
Recursion means something repeats itself to solve a problem step by step.

Spoken by Murf AI 🎧


📦 Installation

1. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/simplify-and-speak
cd simplify-and-speak

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