Irish Language Chrome Extension using ABAIR

This is based off the chrome extension build by dabit3 here: https://github.com/dabit3/transilator

Features

• Turns highlighted text into lifelike speech

Applications

• Learning a new language
• Listening to a news article, documentation, or blog post
• Reviewing a blog post / tweet before publishing it
• Users with vision problems / accessibility related use cases
• Listening to emails
• Listening to content from other languages

Services used

This app uses ABAIR for voice synthesization of the text.

Getting started

1. Clone the project and install the dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/OisinThomasMorrin/IrishChromeSynthesiser.git

cd IrishChromeSynthesiser

npm install

2. Build the bundle

npm run build

3. Upload the extension to chrome

• Visit chrome://extensions (menu -> settings -> Extensions).
• Enable Developer mode by ticking the checkbox in the upper-right corner.
• Click on the "Load unpacked extension..." button.
• Select the directory containing your unpacked extension.

There are issues if you have another extension with a popup active.