Intelligent Speaker
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| Developer(s) | Vitaly Zdanevich, Valery Lebedz, Raman Silin |
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| Initial release | August 2017 |
| Written in | Go, JavaScript |
| Engine | |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Available in | 23 languages |
List of languages Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi (India), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish | |
| Type | Text to Speech, browser extension |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | intelligent-speaker |
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Intelligent Speaker is a freemium text-to-speech browser extension for Firefox and Chromium based web browsers (Google Chrome, Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, Yandex Browser, Edge[1]), not available for Safari. Was featured[2] in Chrome Web Store ("Editor's Picks"). At April 2020 has 40,000 users on Chrome Web Store,[3] 2,000 users on Firefox,[4] from Opera Addons was downloaded[5] more than 18,000 times. The product was in active development around 2 years - from 2017 to 2019,[6] mostly by one person in Belarus, Minsk.[7] Browser extension with backend system, cloud native, running on Amazon DynamoDB, Lambdas, Cognito, S3. Completely written in Vim.
Features
- High quality neural voices through the Amazon Polly (the same as in Amazon Alexa) and Microsoft Azure
- Ability to attach txt, pdf, docx
- Ability to listen to intranet pages (non-public, event local html files)
- Ability to change playback rate
- History synchronization
- Synchronization with personal podcast feed (user can listen added articles on mobile phone using any podcast app)
- Ability to use without an account (anonymously)
- Offline listening (audio stored in IndexedDB)
- Small size (~60 kilobytes)
- Do not waste computer resources when not used (background page of event type)
- No permissions on install, only Download permission for saving synthesized audio
- Ability to download audio (in ogg/vorbis on the extension and m4a/aac from the podcast feed)
- Free for 1 hour of added audio per month, $6.99 per month for 24 hours of added audio (unlimited listening on both plans)
References
- ↑ "Microsoft Edge Addons". microsoftedge.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
- ↑ "Interview with developer (in Russian)". dev.by (in русский). Retrieved 2020-04-28. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Listing on Chrome Web Store". chrome.google.com. Retrieved 2020-04-28. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Listing on Firefox addons store". addons.mozilla.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Intelligent Speaker: text-to-speech". Opera add-ons. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
- ↑ "Article from developer about building of Intelligent Speaker". habr.com. Retrieved 2020-04-28. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Zdanevich, Vitaly. "Talk on meetup about JavaScript". YouTube. Unknown parameter
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