Select and Speak is described as 'Uses iSpeech's human-quality text-to-speech (TTS) to read any selected text in the browser. It includes many iSpeech text to speech voices in different languages. You can configure the voice and speed options by changing the settings on the options page' and is a Text to Speech service. There are more than 50 alternatives to Select and Speak for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Linux and iPad apps. The best Select and Speak alternative is Read Aloud Extension, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Select and Speak are Balabolka, NaturalReader, eSpeak and TextAloud.