We have released a toolbar which can be plugged in to your Firefox browser.
Using this toolbar, you can access your ReadtheWords member account and create recordings on the fly from any web page in your browser. Simply select text in the current web page and click on Record Text. A generated mp3 file will ready for download within seconds. We have kept a limit of 500 characters for text now.
Please note that you do not have to login or register to be able to record the text .
The toolbar is going to undergo some changes and enhancements in the near future. We look forward to getting feedback from you about the toolbar.
Steps to download and install the ReadTheWords Firefox extension.
- Download the rtwtoolbar.xpi file from here and save it to your hard disk.
- Open Firefox and select the File ->Open menu option
- Select the xpi file and click on Install
- After restarting the browser, the toolbar should show up as shown above in the picture
- This version of the toolbar will work from Firefox v.1.5.* to Firefox v.2.5.* . We will test for compatibility with Firefox 3.0,which has been released 24 hrs back, and upload an updated toolbar in the next few days.