I’ve been working on Frateca, a text-to-speech app that converts articles, PDFs, documents, and other text into natural-sounding audio, for more than a year now. Today I released a free Chrome extension to make it much easier to use! Now, when you’re reading something online, you can send it to Frateca directly from Chrome and turn it into audio without copying and pasting the text manually. You can listen to the generated audio or download it if you want to listen later. I originally built Frateca for people who prefer listening to long articles, research papers, newsletters, and other reading instead of sitting in front of a screen. Frateca also works with: Webpages and blog posts Substack and Medium articles PDFs EPUB and Word documents Copied text Photos of text iPhone and Android The Chrome extension is completely free (you get 1 hour of audio generation every day). I’d really appreciate any feedback, especially if you use text-to-speech regularly. I’m still actively improving it and would love to know what features would make it more useful. Free Chrome extension web version iPhone app android app   submitted by   /u/OneMoreSuperUser [link]   [comments]