Google announced a new Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions.With the new API,users just need to add “tts” to your permissions and it is easy to change the rate, pitch, and volume. In addition to the main API, Google also introduced the TTS Engine API which allows developers to implement a Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine.Users that have Chrome on Mac OS X or Windows, or those using Chrome OS, should be able to use the native client voices immediately. Linux users will have to download a voice from the Chrome Web Store.