Listen to Selected Text on WebPages: Convert Web Articles to Speech

Tired of reading long blog posts and news articles ? Now you can simply choose to select text on a webpage and listen to it without using any text to speech software or using any online pronunciationtool. You can just convert any text on a page and listen to it right from Firefox.

Convert Text on Webpages into Speech, Voice: (Don’t Read, Listen)

SpeechUtil is a Firefox add-on that allows you to listen the english text, selected in the web-page. Add-on converts selected text into the speech in OGG format.
# Install SpeechUtil : Link
Step 1 : After installing restart browser.
Step 2 : Simply select some text on any webpage.
Step 3 : Right Click and select "Listen Selected Text" menu-item in the context pop-up menu.

You can click the yellow speaker icon in the right-bottom corner of the browser window.
Step 4 : Speech window will appear on the screen and you will be able listen to text, you just selected.

This an useful way to listen to news online or just convert any article into speech and listen to it instead of reading it.
Note: You can actually download the .ogg file (audio of selected text) if you have the video download helper (add-on) installed.

Listen to Selected Text on WebPages Using SpeechUtil [Video]

Have look at the video (link) above to get an idea how the add-on works to convert selected text into speech audio.