read-aloud VS dezoomify-extension

I use the Read Aloud Firefox extension to read newspaper articles and the wandering inn stories. Works well for me. In the configuration there are free and premium voices. I enable Google Translate voice and increase the speed a bit.

Main repo (website there too, or search on Firefox extensions): https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud

I've already used this in the past, and it's been good: https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud Good luck!

I've tried many, but only Read Aloud competes—your input is appreciated all the same <3

Here is the discussion with the developer on GitHub who's doubling down on their agenda without addressing their deceptive practice.

I don't have a wide knowledge of FOSS speech synthesizers, but one related FOSS application I can recommend is Read Aloud. It is a browser extension for Chrome/Firefox that can use both FOSS synthesizers and external proprietary ones. You can expand voices by installing more local voices. You can for free use their "Basic" voices or pay a small fee for some of their Premium voices (if you pay for premium, as I did for 1 USD, you will get free additional characters every month. I am currently sitting with more characters than I started with). You can alternatively give API keys for Google Cloud, AWS, or IBM. If you want more quality voices.

Unfortunately there does not seem to be a way to easily batch download apart from coding your own web scraper. The only tip I can give you is the Dezoomify extension, which allows you to detect the original hig-res download link for the image just by visiting the web page. It might make the manual downloading a bit less tedious.

Hi All, Just got my 2022 75" Frame and was looking for some art and didn't see the Google Art Project mentioned. On the Google's Art and Culture site you can get high quality art that you can resize and use on your Frame TV. To download from the google site you will have to stich these high-res zoomed images. Luckily there is an awesome website to do this for free and also a chrome extension. Just paste the link of any of the art you find (Example this Claude Monet) on the Dezoomify website or use the browser extension and download the image. Once you have your high quality image you can use the many options available to resize like the Deco Frame website (size limit) or the mobile app in the sticky post. Then simply use the Samsung Frame App to send the art to your screen and enjoy. Happy New Year!

I've taken a quick look at some of the Wayback links other people posted. It seems they used some sort of "image zooming software" on the website, which is pretty common for sites like this (Ancestry and FamilySearch do the same thing). This is what would have made it hard to save the letters originally, as it doesn't just load the jpeg file, instead it progressively loads areas as you zoom into them. I've had success in using dezoomify plugin on Firefox to get around this (also on Chrome), see: https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify-extension