OfflineTTS
A Privacy Focused Chrome Text-to-Speech Browser Extension
I hate reading long articles/documents and 90% of the time, I absorb much better by listening.
Recently Supertone, Inc released an ultra lightweight opensource Text-To-Speech model with natural voices (not the robot sounding crap).
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I was pretty intrigued by it and used it to build a Chrome(-based) browser extension that reads web pages and PDFs aloud for my own personal use.
What’s so unique about it?
- Privacy-focused: Everything happens on your computer, nothing goes to the cloud.
- Lightweight & fast: It works on most modern computers without needing a graphics card.
As with most of my hobby projects, this extension is open source and free for use. It’s in a state of what I would coin as early development but good enough for casual daily use with pending bug fixes and enhancements. If any of you happen to be interested to give it a try, you can find it here.
For those of you who are technical and curious, you can find the source code at:
Perhaps what’s notable is that AI (Claude) did most of the coding. 🤓
This sort of concludes my, for various reasons, a much shorter annual Christmas hacking session this year which I started a little early even before the holidays began.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season! 🙂
