
How2Say by Willian Carlos da Silva
Pronunciation for English words showing its IPA and playing its audio.
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About this extension
How2Say is a Firefox extension to help you to know how to pronounce a word showing its IPA and playing its audio.
Formerly How2Pronounce, but I lost the access to the account.
Features
Configuration
The addon experience can be customized through the options page.
IPA and audios source order can be configured dragging the sources to change the priority, and enable/disable them.
By now, the addon supports these API's, which all of them offer a free limit per month, only requiring to sign their site to get the key/token and provide in the options page, which will be stored only in your device. They are:
- ResponsiveVoice (the only with a key by default)
- Unreal Speech
More audio sources API's are in the roadmap.
Install here How2Say
For developers
Source code can be found here
The files in
It was used fflate to decompress the gzip IPA file in the installation. The script was downloaded from here https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fflate@0.8.2/umd/index.js and is in
It was used SortedJS in the options page. The script was downloaded from here https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Sortable/1.15.6/Sortable.min.js and is in
Notes
Fallback audios are fetched from responsivevoice.org, according to their non-commercial and non-profit rules.
Formerly How2Pronounce, but I lost the access to the account.
- Select a word or text
- Right click to open the context menu and click the extension item
- Or, in Firefox Android, click the extension menu, them the addon icon
- ✨ Magic ✨
Features
- Show word IPA
- Play audio pronunciation
- Allow to provide custom IPA and audio through the options page
- Works for texts
- Allow enable/disable IPA/audio for words and/or texts
Configuration
The addon experience can be customized through the options page.
IPA and audios source order can be configured dragging the sources to change the priority, and enable/disable them.
By now, the addon supports these API's, which all of them offer a free limit per month, only requiring to sign their site to get the key/token and provide in the options page, which will be stored only in your device. They are:
- ResponsiveVoice (the only with a key by default)
- Unreal Speech
More audio sources API's are in the roadmap.
Install here How2Say
For developers
Source code can be found here
The files in
./src/bundle/*.js
were generated with npx rollup --config --bundleConfigAsCjs rollup.config.js
due module usage.It was used fflate to decompress the gzip IPA file in the installation. The script was downloaded from here https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fflate@0.8.2/umd/index.js and is in
./src/utils/fflate.js
.It was used SortedJS in the options page. The script was downloaded from here https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Sortable/1.15.6/Sortable.min.js and is in
./src/utils/Sortable.min.js
. Notes
Fallback audios are fetched from responsivevoice.org, according to their non-commercial and non-profit rules.
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This add-on needs to:
- Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history
- Access your data for all web sites
More information
- Add-on Links
- Version
- 1.4.0
- Size
- 1.2 MB
- Last updated
- 6 days ago (17 Feb 2025)
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- Licence
- Mozilla Public Licence 2.0
- Version History
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Release notes for 1.4.0
Add more IPA and audio sources and improve options page.
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