Select and Speak

Description

Select and Speak uses iSpeech, a speech engine of a high level of similarity to human speech, to read any selected text in the browser. It includes many voices of "text-to-speech" iSpeech in different languages.Select and Speak Voice and speed can be configured by changing the settings on the Settings page.
Select and Speak Update - we recently added Arabic, Korean, and Greek for text-to-speech to the Chrome Select and Speak app
Select and Speak supports the following speech-to-speech languages:
English for men and women (American version), Spanish for men and women (Latin American), English for men and women (Great Britain), English for women (Australia), English for women (Canada), French for men and women (France), French women (Canada) , Portuguese women's (Portugal), Portuguese men's and women's (Brazil), Spanish men's and women's (Castilian), German men's and women's, Italian men's and women's, Dutch women's, Danish women's, Turkish women's and men's,

How to use Select and Speak :
-To start, select the text you want to read.
-Press the icon to start listening.
-To stop listening at any time, click Stop
Notes
-Select and Speak sends the text you select to iSpeech servers using an Internet connection, since it's a voice cloud service (aka SaaS or software as a service)
Developers
-iSpeech offers paid and free API and SDK for text to speech, speech recognition and much more.