Google Translate Hack: Text-to-Speech

[grinich]

http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=hello+hacker+news

Replace hello+hacker+news with your own string.

A cute hack if you need some decent text-to-speech

[cydork]

Here is a basic bookmarklet!

javascript:(function(){q=document.getSelection().toString();if(q){q = q.replace(/\W/g, '+');q = q.replace(/\+\+/g, '+');q = q.replace(/^\+/g, '');location.href='http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=+q;};})()