For this article, I've created a very simple application that uses text to speech to speak out loud the currently selected block of text in your web browser. Often, this will be as simple as providing a way to export the current URL or a selected block of text to your application. Given that most users spend the majority of their time today surfing the web in their browser of choice, it can make sense to provide some sort of integration with your desktop application. There are many scenarios where it's useful to integrate a desktop application with the web browser.