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Selection Reader (Text to Speech)

Chrome extension by David Heaney · Make Chrome Yours · Accessibility

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A Chrome extension in Make Chrome Yours · Accessibility with 100 000 users, a widely installed extension.

No site access is declared in the manifest, so it cannot read the pages you open on its own.

What the developer says, and 1 screenshot

Loading from the Chrome Web Store. Open the listing if it does not appear.

Users
100 000
Rating
3.6 (726 ratings)
Users, last 10 days
unchanged
Rating, last 30 days
Not watched long enough to say
Version
2.0.10
Updated in the store
2026-09-07
Published
2016-10-12
Manifest
V3
Browser access
6 permissions

How it has moved

Users
unchanged since 31.08
100k · 3 readings
2026-09-08: released 2.0.10
  1. 2026-08-31100k
  2. 2026-09-06100k
  3. 2026-09-09100k
Rating
unchanged since 31.08
reviewsrating 3.65 · 3 readings
2026-09-08: released 2.0.10
  1. 2026-08-31reviews725rating3.65
  2. 2026-09-06reviews726rating3.65
  3. 2026-09-09reviews726rating3.65
Users
unchanged since 31.08
100k · 3 readings
2026-09-08: released 2.0.10
  1. 2026-08-31100k
  2. 2026-09-06100k
  3. 2026-09-09100k
Rating
unchanged since 31.08
reviewsrating 3.65 · 3 readings
2026-09-08: released 2.0.10
  1. 2026-08-31reviews725rating3.65
  2. 2026-09-06reviews726rating3.65
  3. 2026-09-09reviews726rating3.65

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What it can reach

No site access is declared in the manifest, so it cannot read the pages you open on its own.

  • Run its own code on the pages it can access scripting
  • Act on the current tab, but only after you click it activeTab
  • Schedule work to run later alarms
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  • Add items to the right-click menu contextMenus
  • Store data in your browser storage
  • Speak text out loud tts

The full permission history for this extension

Version history

  1. Version 2.0.10

What changed recently

  1. Package size changed
  2. Released version 2.0.10 (was 2.0.9)

The publisher

David Heaney publishes 2 listings we track, 104k users between them.

  1. Voice Type (Speech to Text) David Heaney · Make Chrome Yours · Accessibility · published 2016-11-04 4k users ★ 3.0

Like this one

Listings the catalog judges closest in what they say they do.

  1. Text-to-Speech Reader Describes nearly the same job 0 users
  2. Text Reader Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 6k users ★ 3.1
  3. SelectSpeak: Read Aloud Text to Speech (TTS) Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 30 users ★ 5.0
  4. Text to Speech Reader - WiserWork Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 64 users ★ 5.0
  5. Text To Speech Reader Pro Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 333 users ★ 4.0

The top 5 only. The full comparison, with why each one is close, is on the alternatives page; ranking a whole neighbourhood by your own criteria is in the app.

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