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Show HN: One Time Payment Text Speech in the Browser

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I loved speechify but had 2 problems : - its monthly price - its character limitations.

So I built WithAudio (https://with.audio). I've been working on this for the past 8 months. A one time payment desktop app that lets you listen or listen while following the text highlighting.

Soon I realised me and many users prefer to have the option to do this in their browser. So I built the browser extension. The extension is free but works only if you have the WithAudio app (which is a paid product).

Youtube demo: https://youtu.be/Vn3VwCLuPQU Chrome Extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/the-withaudio-web-c... Extension's source code: https://github.com/withaudio/withaudio-web-companion

The author built a browser extension for text-to-speech functionality after creating a desktop app, addressing limitations in existing solutions like speechify.

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