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24 alternatives to React / Vanilla Speech Highlight

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. React / Vanilla Speech Highlight launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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react-text-to-speech▲9
An easy-to-use react.js component to convert text to speech
2024 · rtts.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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MeSpeak.js 2.0 – Text-to-Speech in JavaScript▲84
(Now Go Bang!) Announcing meSpeak.js 2.0: TTS in JS, now even better.
2019 · masswerk.at · its alternatives →
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Open-source real-time transcription playground (React, Python, GCP)▲76
A real-time transcription project using React and socketio - GitHub - saharmor/realtime-transcription-playground: A real-time transcription project using React and socketio
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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WaveNet for Chrome▲79
A wrapper for Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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English syntax highlighter using part-of-speech tagging▲147
2016 · english.edward.io · its alternatives →
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AnyToSpeech▲109
An easy way to convert text, URL or PDF to speech
2023 · anytospeech.com · its alternatives →
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Use-sound, a React hook for sound effects on the web▲131
By and large, using the web is a visual experience. This is in terrible contrast to mobile apps, which interact with three of our human senses (sight, sound, and touch, through haptic feedback). I just released a library to make it easy to add sound to your React app, and I make the case that you sh
2020 · joshwcomeau.com · its alternatives →
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Unreal Speech▲333
Fast & Affordable Text-to-Speech API
2025 · unrealspeech.com · its alternatives →
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Code Hike – More than syntax highlighting▲118
Use Markdown and React to build rich content websites. Documentation, tutorials, blogs, videos, interactive walkthroughs, and more.
2021 · codehike.org · its alternatives →
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React and Next.js Snippets▲133
React and Next.js snippets with TypeScript
2022 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Highlighting API made by LINER▲169
Medium-style highlighting API for your website
2017 · its alternatives →
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A DOM text-selection highlight renderer▲93
A simple and fast zero-dependencies-library to transform text-selections into serializable markings.
2015 · bowlingx.github.io · its alternatives →
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React Markdown Editor▲97
A simple React markdown editor with preview
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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React Geiger – performance profiling using sound▲164
2024 · its alternatives →
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Speechnotes▲84
Type with your voice. Speech-to-text in your browser.
2015 · speechnotes.co · its alternatives →
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SpeechKit▲152
The best way to make your news stories available in audio
2017 · speechkit.io · its alternatives →
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VanillaVoice▲86
Turn any text into human sounding speech
2022 · vanillavoice.com · its alternatives →
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Voice Recognition with React (component)▲6
Set of React components that use the Web Speech API to bring voice experience to React applications - grvcoelho/react-voice-components
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PoemKit▲82
React toolkit for fast web design and development
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Grok's Text to Speech API ▲119
Grok's Text to Speech API is now available.
Mar 2026 · x.ai · its alternatives →
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Orate▲108
A free Hotkey text-to-speech for any highlighted text
2025 · its alternatives →
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Woord - Text to Speech▲83
Turn the Web into audio using realistic voices
2020 · getwoord.com · its alternatives →
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Verby▲72
Free text to speech converter with SSML editor
2019 · its alternatives →
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React-Typical▲97
Animated typing without the headaches
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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