What is Mozilla?
Mozilla Firefox or shortly Firefox is a free and open-source web browser. Firefox gives users a clean interface and fast download speeds.
What are the Text to Speech Extensions and Add-ons that Mozilla Supports?
There are a lot of text to speech browser extensions and add-ons that are supported by Mozilla.
They can be listed as:
- TTSFox
- Intelligent Speaker
- Read Aloud
- Talkie
- Text to Speech (TTS)
TTSFox
TTSFox is a text to speech extension which is only available on Mozilla Firefox web browser.
To activate TTSFox on your Firefox browser:
- Go to the TTSFox website and click “get the extension” button
- Go to any website you want to listen to with this extension
- Click the toolbar icon and key-in text
- Click the “Speech” button
- Select text on the website
- Click the mouse right button
- Click “Speech” item on the context menu
- Click “Speech” button
Intelligent Speaker
Intelligent Speaker is an add-on for Firefox which provides its users the opportunity to save and list the websites to listen to later.
To activate Intelligent Speaker on your Firefox browser:
- Go to the Intelligent Speaker website and choose the “Install for Firefox” option
- After installing the program, go to any website you want to listen to
- On the toolbar, choose the Intelligent Speaker icon
If you want to listen to the text immediately:
- Choose the text you want to listen to
- Click the “Play” button
If you want to listen to the text later:
- Click the plus icon to save the website on Intelligent Speaker
- You can open the Intelligent Speaker to see all the articles or files you have saved
- Choose the file you want to listen to
- Click the “Play” button
Read Aloud
Read Aloud is a Firefox add-on that allows you to convert any webpage you visit from text to speech.
To activate Read Aloud on your Firefox browser:
- Go to the Read Aloud website
- Choose the “Firefox” option and install the extension
- Go to any website you want to listen to
- On the toolbar, choose the Read Aloud extension and click the “Play” button
- If you want to listen to a specific part on the website, highlight the text and then click the “Play” button
Talkie
To activate Talkie on your Firefox browser:
- Go to the Talkie website
- Choose the “Firefox Get the Add-On” option and install the extension
- Go to any website you want to listen to
- Highlight the text you want to listen to
- On the toolbar, click the Talkie option, then click the “Play” button
- Or after highlighting the text, click the right button on the mouse
- Choose the Talkie option on the context menu
Text to Speech (TTS)
To use Text to Speech on your Firefox browser:
- Go to any website
- Highlight the text you want to listen to
- There will appear a small blue speaker icon above the highlighted text
- Click the icon
