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How2Say

by Willian Carlos da Silva · Education
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 16 Oct 2026

Pronunciation for American English words with phonetic IPA and audio

Users
29
−17 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#133K
#111K among extensions
Version
1.1.0
updated 13 May 2026

Users

monthly, 10 months
01836Dec 2025Jun 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 29 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 10 months
001Dec 2025Jun 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About How2Say

How2Say is a browser addon to help you to know how to pronounce a word showing its IPA and playing its audio. - Select a word or text - Right click to open the context menu and click the extension item - ✨ Magic ✨ Features - Show word IPA - Play audio pronunciation - Allow to provide custom IPA and audio through the options page - Works for texts - Allow enable/disable IPA/audio for words and/or texts - Allow control audio with a player for texts (enable/disable through options) - Allow control audio with shortcuts for texts (enable/disable through options) - Highly customizable through the options [page](about:addons) Configuration The addon experience can be customized through the options page. IPA and audios source order can be configured dragging the sources to change the priority, and enable/disable them. By now, the addon supports these API's, which all of them offer a free limit per month, only requiring to sign their site to get the key/token and provide in the options page, which will be stored only in your device. They are: - ResponsiveVoice: https://app.responsivevoice.org/login (the only with a key by default) - Unreal Speech: https://unrealspeech.com/ - Speechify: https://console.sws.speechify.com/login - PlayHT: https://play.ht/signup/?attribution=%2F (there is no free tier) - ElevenLabs: https://elevenlabs.io/app/sign-up - AmazonPolly: https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ (1 year of free tier) - OpenAI: https://platform.openai.com/docs/overview (there is no free tier) - DeepSeek: https://deepinfra.com/login?from=%2Fdash# (there is no free tier) For developers Source code can be found [here](https://github.com/wcs7777/pronunciation-extension/tree/chrome) The files in `./src/bundle/*.js` were generated with `npx rollup --config --bundleConfigAsCjs rollup.config.js` due module usage. It was used fflate to decompress the gzip IPA file in the installation. The script was downloaded from here [https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fflate@0.8.2/umd/index.js](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fflate@0.8.2/umd/index.js) and is in `./src/utils/fflate.js`. It was used SortedJS in the options page. The script was downloaded from here [https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Sortable/1.15.6/Sortable.min.js](https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Sortable/1.15.6/Sortable.min.js) and is in `./src/utils/Sortable.min.js`. It was used Compromise to get informations about the word. The script was downloaded from here [https://unpkg.com/compromise@14.14.4/builds/compromise.js](https://unpkg.com/compromise@14.14.4/builds/compromise.js) and is in `./src/utils/compromise.js`. Version 1.1.0: Add selection trigger option, add command shortcut trigger option, add follow scroll option for IPA popup, add Andika and NotoSans fonts for IPA popup.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%00.00
30 days−17−37.0%00.00
6 months+17+141.7%00.00

Version history

2 versions recorded
1.1.013 May 2026
1.0.017 Dec 2025

Details

Category
Education
First seen
17 Dec 2025
Size
3.1 MB
Languages
en-US
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
github.com
Support
github.com
Extension ID
khlmnfgdmfpcghllnbdoafmmiohokipn

Permissions and risk

Elevated riskimpact 4, likelihood 2
Permissions
downloadscontextMenusoffscreenstoragetabsunlimitedStorage
Site access
https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/*https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/speech/https://api.play.ht/api/v2/tts/streamhttps://api.sws.speechify.com/v1/audio/*https://api.v7.unrealspeech.com/*https://api2.unalengua.com/ipav3/https://assets.linguee.com/static/*https://dictionary.cambridge.org/*https://polly.af-south-1.api.aws/v1/speechhttps://polly.ap-east-1.api.aws/v1/speechand 26 more

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