This is my final project to the 2020 version of the Harvard's CS50x course.
- Description
- What is it?
- How to use it?
- Features
- Demo
- Download
What is it?
- Slang is a chrome extension that reads aloud any text from any website. It has a pop-up where it displays and updates the text it is reading, and highlights the sentence being spoken synchronized with the speech, so that you can keep reading along regardless of the page you're on. Listening and reading simultaneously increases comprehension, strengthens memory, helps build fluency skills including proper phrasing and expression and improve sight word recognition! And of course, Slang can also be very useful to save your time if you let it reading for you while you do something else.
How to use it?
- To make Slang speak, select the text you want to hear, open the pop-up and hit the play button, or right-click the selected text and click speak. You can also type the text directly in the po-pup and click play. All speech settings can be edited through the pop-up.
Features:
- Easy access via pop-up or right-click menu.
- Speak any text selected on the internet or written directly in the pop-up.
- If there's text selected in the browser and another text was written in the pop-up, Slang is smart enough to decide which one to speak.
- While speaking, updates the text in the pop-up sentence by sentence, highlighting the sentence being spoken.
- Keep speaking and updating the text in the pop-up even if you change to another page/tab, or close the original tab.
- When not speaking, the pop-up always shows the last spoken or edited text, even if the browser or computer has been restarted.
- When a speech is paused, Slang saves it so you can pick up where you left off later, even if the browser or computer has been restarted.
- 21 voices in 14 languages available.
- Customizable speed and pitch.
Example of how to use Slang through the pop-up...
...and through the right click menu.
Also, check out the Youtube video for a more complete demo!
Slang is available to download at the Chrome Web Store.
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2020 Kauê R A Pereira
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