Does Chrome have a native TTS?

Question

Windows has a native TTS (Text to Speech) program called Narrator, it can easily be enabled to read a specific paragraph on a text document.

When I looked around to see if Chrome had a similar program that I could use when surfing, I found a bunch of add on apps and this post Realistic voice for Text-to-Speech

I want to know if there is something built-in to Chrome, that is not an add-on, that I can use, and if so how to turn it on

Answer 1

While Chrome does have built-in TTS functionality (see chrome.tts - Google Chrome), it appears that an extension is required to utilize it. Google does have its own ChromeVox extension.

Answer 2

The Chrome extension Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader to do text-to-speech for a webpage is much more popular that Google's ChromeVox extension. Gratis, has over 6 million users and 4.2/5 stars (vs. 100k users and 2.5/5 stars for the ChromeVox extension). I tried it, works well.

FYI:

• Native TTS in Edge on Windows: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/features/read-aloud
• Native TTS in Chrome on macOS: https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/34066/20338