Version 83.0.472.0 of Microsoft Edge Canary which is based on Chromium, allows you to easily listen to the website you are interested in. It is a useful feature that works much better than the Windows announcer.
The Browser Chromium-based Edge has a new feature called Speech. With this you can listen to a page on the internet, whether it is in Greek or English. This feature is currently only in the Cannary 83.0.472.0 beta and is expected to come to the stable version later.
Our tests in the Canary version showed us that it works smoothly, rendering Greek with the voice of "Stefanos", the robotic voice of Microsoft. In general, it works much better than the Windows announcer, because it only targets web pages and thus does not require complexity and text targeting.
So if you're visually impaired or just an auditory type and for example want to listen to a historical text rather than read it, then all you have to do is download Edge Canary (which can run alongside and without any problem with the stable version of Microsoft Edge) and try Speech.
Let's see how you can do it:
1. go here and download the latest Edge Canary
2. Install it and run it.
3. Go to the website of your choice, for example iguru.gr, enter one of our articles and in the browser click on the icon that looks like a book with a loudspeaker.
4. The page will enter "reader mode". That is, the images, the ads will be removed and only the text with the links will be left.
5. Move your mouse cursor over it line settings that the url also has, and you'll see a line with a sub-menu appear. In it, press the “Speak” command.
6. Immediately "Stefanos" will start reading the text having the whole page somewhat dark and illuminating only the word he utters each time.
In this mode, as you will find, you have the basic playback buttons sound (pause, play, forward, backward) so you can manage the pronunciation.
