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Chickadee
Read articles aloud. Free, local, and open source.
Chickadee is a free and open-source browser extension that reads web pages aloud in a natural voice, locally on your machine. Follow along with sentence highlighting, choose from 12 voices, and adjust the reading speed. Speech runs on your computer, keeping your reading private. No account or subscription is needed.
Hey Product Hunt! I'm the maker of Chickadee.
I often want to listen to articles while reading them. But my browser's built-in text-to-speech sounds like a robot from the 1980s, and tools like Speechify cost more than I wanted to pay.
So I built Chickadee. It runs an 82-million-parameter speech model right in your browser, on your own computer. This means you get a natural voice for free, and nothing you read is uploaded.
Chickadee includes:
• 12 voices and adjustable playback speed
• Sentence highlighting right on the original page
• Offline speech after the initial model download
• No account, subscription, or API key
After installing the extension, you can just open an article, press play, and listen. It works in Chrome-based browsers on computers with WebGPU support.
If you're interested, try it out! https://www.usechickadee.com
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About Chickadee on Product Hunt
“Read articles aloud. Free, local, and open source.”
Chickadee was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #115 on the daily leaderboard. Chickadee is a free and open-source browser extension that reads web pages aloud in a natural voice, locally on your machine. Follow along with sentence highlighting, choose from 12 voices, and adjust the reading speed. Speech runs on your computer, keeping your reading private. No account or subscription is needed.
Chickadee was featured in Chrome Extensions (52.8k followers), Productivity (661.1k followers), GitHub (41.4k followers) and Audio (2.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 210.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Chickadee?
Chickadee was hunted by Sahil Mahendrakar. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Sahil Mahendrakar