CLicK,Speak a speech reader Firefox extension
As the developer of SpeakIt hasn’t updated it for Firefox 3 and I couldn’t get the speech bit of Accessibar to work, I trawled around and found this Firefox 3 extension.It looks a good replacement for the late, lamented FoxyVoice.
CLiCk,Speak is an open source, freely available extension for the Firefox web browser. It is part of the CLC-4-TTS Suite of products, it features a mouse driven interface, and it reads web pages – hence its name.
Unlike Fire Vox which is designed for visually impaired users, CLiCk,Speak is designed for sighted users who want text-to-speech functionality. It doesn’t identify elements or announce events – two features that are very important for visually impaired users but very annoying for sighted users. Like Fire Vox, CLiCk,Speak works on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux; and has multilingual support, making it great for users who are trying to learn a foreign language and need to hear foreign language web sites read out to them for practice.
If you’re a sighted user who wants to have web pages read to you because you have cognitive issues (for example, dyslexia), because you have literacy issues, because you want to reduce eyestrain and listen to a web page being read, etc., then you are likely to prefer CLiCk, Speak over Fire Vox.
It really does work right out of the box if you already have speech engines on your system. CLiCk, Speak uses SAPI 5, Java FreeTTS, and Orca for speech synthesis. Thus, if a voice synthesizer uses any of these interfaces, that voice will be compatible with CLiCk, Speak. Currently, SAPI 5 has the best selection of voices – some of these voices are free, but most of them are commercial.
You can get it from http://clickspeak.clcworld.net/index.html
