Chromium-based version of Microsoft Edge Canary 83.0.472.0 lets you easily hear the webpage you are interested in. It is a useful feature that works much better than the Windows announcer.
The Chromium-based Edge browser has a new feature called Speech. With this you can listen to a page on the internet, whether it is in Greek or in English. This feature is currently only available in the trial version of Cannary 83.0.472.0 and is expected to come later in the fixed version.
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 have vision problems or you are just an audio guy and for example you want to listen to a historical text instead of reading it, then all you have to do is download Edge Canary (which can run in parallel and without any problems with its stable version Microsoft Edge) and try Spelling.
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. Hover your mouse over the settings bar that the url has, and you will see a bar with a submenu appear. In it, press the command "Speak".
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 see, you have the basic audio play buttons (pause, play, forward, backward) so you can manage the pronunciation.
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