French Reader

French Reader - Smart IPA Phonetic Annotations for French Web Pages

✨ Key Features:
• IPA pronunciation for French words on web pages
• French hover dictionary with definitions
• Three hover modes: Dictionary, Tooltip, Off
• Whole-page IPA mode with color-coded symbols (vowels blue, consonants gray, stress red, length purple) — show all transcriptions at once
• Built-in PDF Reader with IPA annotations
• Auto-intercept web PDFs — open online PDFs with IPA overlay
• Text-to-speech with karaoke-style word highlighting (French fr-FR voice)
• Liaison forms display for connected speech
• Instant translation of selected text (Bing & Google Translate)
• 108 target languages; inline translation bubble with copy button
• Right-click menu and keyboard shortcuts for quick access
• Rule-based G2P engine for French pronunciation coverage

🔊 Text-to-Speech:
• Single word — click the speaker button to hear French pronunciation
• Selection speech — select text, floating toolbar or Alt+Shift+S
• Karaoke effect — words highlight one by one as they are spoken

🌐 Translation:
• Select any text and click translate or press Alt+Shift+T
• Bing Translate and Google Translate engines
• 108 target languages available

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts:
• Alt+Shift+F — Toggle IPA annotations on/off
• Alt+Shift+S — Speak selected text
• Alt+Shift+T — Translate selected text

📄 PDF Reader:
• Built-in PDF viewer with IPA for French text
• Show or hide IPA annotations with the toolbar toggle
• Auto-intercept online PDFs in the browser
• Click words for dictionary lookup
• Sidebar: outline / thumbnails and page navigation
• Search inside PDFs
• Three themes: dark, light, sepia
• Drag & drop local PDFs or paste URLs

📚 Perfect for:
• French learners reading web pages and PDFs
• Learning French pronunciation with IPA
• Vocabulary and dictionary look-ups while reading
• Sentence reading practice with TTS
• Quick translation without leaving the page

🔒 Privacy: No data collection. Translation text is sent to third-party APIs (Bing/Google) only when you use the translate feature. All other processing is local.