Any free Text To Speech for browsers?

Question

Wondering if there is any Text to Speech software available as a plug in for IE or Firefox.

Answer 1

It is built in for Safari on Mac OSX. Highlight any text and go to the menu, Safari > Services > Speech > Start Speaking Text.

Answer 2

For Firefox, there is LowBrowse, which has text to speech for the paragraph that the cursor is in.

Answer 3

• Fire Vox
• Fangs

Answer 4

I know you asked for plugins for IE and Firefox but I thought I'd just add that Opera supports text to speech (both for issuing commands and for Opera to read web / email to you) out of the box (in Windows and possibly Mac OS).

See the Opera Voice page.

Answer 5

Windows Narrator is part of a default XP installation, and can be used in any browser. I also suggest you try out Thunder, which is free and can work with IE and most other Windows apps.

Answer 6

There is also NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) which is an open source general purpose screen reader for Windows.