Automatik Text Reader

{{Short description|Text-to-speech add-on for Firefox}}

{{notability|Products|date=August 2015}}

{{Infobox software

| name = Automatik Text Reader

| logo = Automatik Text Reader icon.png

| screenshot = Automatik Text Reader – Firefox screenshot.png

| caption = Automatik Text Reader on Firefox

| developer = Davide Baldini

| website =

| released = {{Start date and age|2014|10|20|df=y}}

| latest release version = 2.3

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2015|03|14|df=y}}

| operating system = Windows, Linux, macOS

| genre = Text To Speech

| programming language = JavaScript

| license = GPLv2

| discontinued = yes

| language = English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Russian

| language count = 6

}}

Automatik Text Reader was a free and open source add-on for Firefox providing text-to-speech functions available from the Mozilla Add-ons collection. It supports multiple languages and accents and is capable of autonomously recognizing the language of written text and activating the respective speech synthesis engine.{{cite web |url=http://www.taringa.net/posts/info/18235038/Lee-Textos-Automaticamente-Con-Mozilla-Firefox.html |title=Lee Textos Automaticamente Con Mozilla Firefox |access-date=9 August 2015 |language=Spanish}} Amongst the peculiar features, the voice speed is adjustable and the text selection is automatic.{{cite web |url=https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/automatik-text-reader |title=Automatik Text Reader on AMO |accessdate=2015-08-09 |archive-date=2015-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150614084735/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/automatik-text-reader/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/23/windows/internet/plugins/firefox-text-speech-add-english-italian-spanish.html |title=Firefox Text To Speech Add-on For English, Italian, Spanish |date=23 October 2014 |access-date=9 August 2015 }} In addition to the unique features users will find that the interface is very simple to use; having only 4 buttons to operate it.{{cite web|title=Automatik Text Reader|url=https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/automatik-text-reader/|website=addons.mozilla.org|accessdate=28 February 2017|archive-date=2 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181102193750/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/automatik-text-reader/|url-status=dead}}