Demonstrating SpeakIt, a Chrome Extension that reads text-to-speech

In this blog entry I share with you SpeakIt, a free text-to-speech online tool that is an extension that you can download from the Chrome store. To use it you need to use Chrome as your browser.

1. Using Chrome as your browser (very important!) go to the Chrome Store and search for the extension "SpeakIt" (so when you search, make sure to select the "extension" button as shown in the screenshot below).
2. Click on the "+ Free" button to install the extension icon to your Chrome browser toolbar.
   
   
3. You are then ready to go! To have SpeakIt read text to you, highlight the text that you want read aloud, and click on the SpeakIt icon that you will see on your Chrome toolbar.
   

Below is a video that I created to demonstrate how SpeakIt works: