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 Automatik Text Reader on Firefox | |
| Developer | Davide Baldini |
| Initial release | 20 October 2014; 11 years ago (2014-10-20) |
| Final release | 2.3 / 14 March 2015; 10 years ago (2015-03-14) |
| Written in | JavaScript |
| Operating system | Windows,Linux,macOS |
| Available in | 6 languages |
| Type | Text To Speech |
| License | GPLv2 |
Automatik Text Reader was a free andopen source add-on forFirefox providingtext-to-speech functions available from theMozilla Add-ons collection. It supports multiple languages and accents and is capable of autonomously recognizing the language of written text and activating the respective speech synthesis engine.[1] Amongst the peculiar features, the voice speed is adjustable and the text selection is automatic.[2][3] In addition to the unique features users will find that the interface is very simple to use; having only 4 buttons to operate it.[4]
Automatik Text Reader has support forEnglish,Spanish,French,German,Italian andRussian. The quality of the synthesis varies significantly between the languages, with English being the smoothest, most natural-sounding voice.[5]
Being a Firefox add-on, Automatik Text Reader requires Firefox to run and cannot be installed standalone. Also, for very short texts composed of three words or less, the language detector may fail to recognize the correct language.[6]