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Speak It - Firefox Add-on
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posted by Program Witch
Looks like someone finally rebuilt one of my past favorite Firefox extensions (now called Add-ons). Foxyvoice was a wonderful text-to-speech tool to read pages or highlighted text to you within Firefox. When Firefox went to 1.5, Foxyvoice stopped working. Just today I found someone has fixed Foxyvoice and released it as Speak It.
Read pages or selected text using microsoft tts engine. This is a rewritten version of foxyvoice

Works with: Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.* Windows
Speak It - Firefox Add-ons

I've gotten it to work with both the voices that come with Windows and with ATT Natural Voice. I prefer ATT Natural Voice, but the MS voice, Anna, that comes with Vista isn't too bad.

Speak It Firefox Add-on - Location
Location of Speak It smiley face button

Speak It Firefox Add-on - Menu
Speak It - Right Click Menu

Speak It Firefox Add-on - Options
Speak It - Options Menu
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007, 4:03:45 AM by Phil  |  email  |  www
Have you tried Talklets.com?

Works with more browsers, and has a MUCH better voice... :) As well as some nifty features.
Thursday, June 28, 2007, 4:38:34 PM by HRC  |  email
How did you get other voices to work with it? All mine shows is MS Sam even though I’ve downloaded several others...
Friday, June 29, 2007, 8:12:32 AM by Program Witch  |  email  |  www
In Windows XP check - Control Panel - Speech - Text to Speech tab.

Make sure your voices did install. If not refer to any help from where you purchased or downloaded the additional voices.

ATT Natural Voices I really like. Google/Yahoo Search around to find where you can purchase a copy.
Monday, April 07, 2008, 2:52:18 AM by Rizwan
I have installed speack it but its not speaking selection. Also these options are disabled. When i click on the speak it icon on status bar it starts speaking from beginning. Any one knows why...