How2Say

Tracking since Apr 18, 2026.

Changelog

• May 14, 2026
  description

  # How2Say
  ## Browser addon
  
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    <img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5458ba78-f2f7-47e1-9185-db1b6166da95" width="250" />
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  [How2Say](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/How2Say/) is a browser addon to help you to know how to pronounce a word showing its IPA and playing its audio.  
  
  - Select a word or text  
  - Right click to open the context menu and click the extension item  
  - ✨ 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  
  - Allow control audio with a player for texts (enable/disable through options)  
  - Allow control audio with shortcuts for texts (enable/disable through options)  
  - Highly customizable through the options [page](about:addons)  
  
  ### 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](https://app.responsivevoice.org/login) (the only with a key by default)  
  - [Unreal Speech](https://unrealspeech.com/)  
  - [Speechify](https://console.sws.speechify.com/login)  
  - [PlayHT](https://play.ht/signup/?attribution=%2F) (there is no free tier)
  - [ElevenLabs](https://elevenlabs.io/app/sign-up)  
  - [AmazonPolly](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/) (1 year of free tier)  
  - [OpenAI](https://platform.openai.com/docs/overview) (there is no free tier)  
  - [DeepSeek](https://deepinfra.com/login?from=%2Fdash#) (there is no free tier)  
  
  Install here [How2Say](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/How2Say/)   
  
  ### For developers
  Source code can be found [here](https://github.com/wcs7777/pronunciation-extension/tree/chrome)  
  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/[email protected]/umd/index.js](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/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](https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Sortable/1.15.6/Sortable.min.js) and is in `./src/utils/Sortable.min.js`.  
  It was used Compromise to get informations about the word. The script was downloaded from here [https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/builds/compromise.js](https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/builds/compromise.js) and is in `./src/utils/compromise.js`.

  How2Say is a browser addon to help you to know how to pronounce a word showing its IPA and playing its audio.  
  
  - Select a word or text  
  - Right click to open the context menu and click the extension item  
  - ✨ 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  
  - Allow control audio with a player for texts (enable/disable through options)  
  - Allow control audio with shortcuts for texts (enable/disable through options)  
  - Highly customizable through the options [page](about:addons)  
  
  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: https://app.responsivevoice.org/login (the only with a key by default)  
  - Unreal Speech: https://unrealspeech.com/  
  - Speechify: https://console.sws.speechify.com/login  
  - PlayHT: https://play.ht/signup/?attribution=%2F (there is no free tier)
  - ElevenLabs: https://elevenlabs.io/app/sign-up  
  - AmazonPolly: https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ (1 year of free tier)  
  - OpenAI: https://platform.openai.com/docs/overview (there is no free tier)  
  - DeepSeek: https://deepinfra.com/login?from=%2Fdash# (there is no free tier)  
  
  
  For developers
  Source code can be found [here](https://github.com/wcs7777/pronunciation-extension/tree/chrome)  
  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/[email protected]/umd/index.js](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/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](https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Sortable/1.15.6/Sortable.min.js) and is in `./src/utils/Sortable.min.js`.  
  It was used Compromise to get informations about the word. The script was downloaded from here [https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/builds/compromise.js](https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/builds/compromise.js) and is in `./src/utils/compromise.js`.  
  
  Version 1.1.0: Add selection trigger option, add command shortcut trigger option, add follow scroll option for IPA popup, add Andika and NotoSans fonts for IPA popup.

Permissions & access

Permissions

downloadscontextMenusoffscreenstoragetabsunlimitedStorage

Host access

https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/*, https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/speech/, https://api.play.ht/api/v2/tts/stream, https://api.sws.speechify.com/v1/audio/*, https://api.v7.unrealspeech.com/*, https://api2.unalengua.com/ipav3/, https://assets.linguee.com/static/*, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/*, https://polly.af-south-1.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.ap-east-1.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.ap-northeast-1.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.ap-northeast-2.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.ap-northeast-3.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.ap-south-1.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.ap-southeast-1.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.ap-southeast-2.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.ca-central-1.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.eu-central-1.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.eu-north-1.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.eu-south-2.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.eu-west-1.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.eu-west-3.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.me-south-1.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.sa-east-1.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.us-east-1.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.us-east-2.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.us-west-1.api.aws/v1/speech, https://polly.us-west-2.api.aws/v1/speech, https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/words.alexmeub.com/*, https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/*, https://texttospeech.responsivevoice.org/v1/*, https://translatormind.com/translator-tool/ipa-phonetic-transcription-translator/, https://translatormind.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, https://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/*, https://www.linguee.com/*, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/*

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