অসমীয়াত পঢ়ক — Assamese

AI-powered Assamese text-to-speech. Select text on any webpage → hear it read aloud. By AAII & Xobdo. Runs locally. Designed for students, readers, and accessibility support for Assamese language users.

অসমীয়া ভাষাৰ বাবে AI-ৰ সহায়ত টেক্সট-টু-স্পীচ মডেল। যিকোনো ৱেবপেজত অসমীয়া লিখনি চিলেক্ট কৰক আৰু শুনক।

অসমীয়াত পঢ়ক (Assamese Reader) is a free, AI-powered text-to-speech extension for the Assamese language.

🔊 SELECT & LISTEN
Highlight any Assamese text on any webpage. A "পঢ়ক" button appears — click it to hear the text read aloud in natural Assamese.

📄 FULL PAGE READING
Right-click anywhere → "সম্পূৰ্ণ পৃষ্ঠা পঢ়ক" to read an entire article. Works with Wikipedia, news sites, blogs, and more.

🔒 PRIVACY FIRST
All AI processing happens locally in your browser using WebAssembly without server interaction. No text is sent to any server. Your data stays with you. No user data is collected, stored, or transmitted.

⚡ FEATURES
- Sentence-by-sentence streaming with visual highlighting
- Smart text cleaning — strips HTML, references, converts numbers to Assamese words
- Speed control (slower ↔ faster)
- Works on any website with Assamese text
- One-time model download, cached for instant loading

🧠 TECHNOLOGY
Built with FastSpeech2 + Multi-Band MelGAN neural TTS, trained on around 4 hours of Assamese speech data. Runs via ONNX Runtime Web (WebAssembly).

🔐 PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED
- contextMenus: Adds “পঢ়ক” and “সম্পূৰ্ণ পৃষ্ঠা পঢ়ক” options when you right-click text or a webpage
- storage: Saves user preferences such as playback speed locally in your browser
- offscreen: Enables background audio playback and WebAssembly-based TTS processing

🌐 WEBSITE ACCESS
- This extension works on any webpage containing Assamese text.
Access to webpages is required only to detect user-selected text and enable reading functionality. No page data is collected or transmitted.

📊 DATA USAGE
No personal data is collected
No browsing history is stored
No data is transmitted externally
All processing happens locally on your device

A collaborative project by Assam AI Initiative (AAII) and Xobdo.org.

📬 Support & Details:
https://aaiiaxomi.github.io/assamese-tts-reader/
https://aaii-axom.github.io/
https://www.xobdo.org/
Email: aaiiaxomi@gmail.com