DEV3 Free Text to Speech Reader — Source Code (React + Tailwind)

Source code of the DEV3 Text to Speech Reader, a read-aloud tool using the Web Speech API with voice, rate, pitch and volume controls and word highlighting.

Free download: sign in to any DEV3 account and click Download ZIP. Try it live: https://dev3.tech/tools/text-to-speech-reader shows the finished tool running.

What is in the download

• A standalone Vite + React + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS project: src/tool holds the tool, shared pieces sit beside it
• package.json with exact versions plus a lockfile, so npm ci works
• README.md (run, build, embed in Next.js or plain React) and an MIT LICENSE

What the code does

• Sentence chunking so long text keeps playing
• Boundary-event highlight of the current word
• Voices grouped by language
• Pause, resume and stop

Tech stack

React 19, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS 4.

Install and customise

The How to install and How to use tabs list the steps. In short: unzip, npm ci, npm run dev, then copy the tool folder into your own app if you want to embed it.

Good to know

• A browser-only tool: there is no backend or database in the code.
• Voices and highlighting depend on the visitor browser and operating system; no audio export.