speech-synth

Simple text to speech module built on Web Speech API.

• Try out a live demo of the component here

• The NPM page can be found here

• The GitHub page can be found here

Table of Contents

1. Usage
2. Initial Setup
3. Component API
4. Team

Usage

Install Module

run npm install speech-synth --save in console while in root directory to add the component to your project.

Initial Setup

Import the module buy using a requrie statement: const speech = require('speech-synth');

or an import statement: import speech from 'speech-synth';

Component API

• say:
  • Description: convert text to speech
  • Type: Method
  • Params: (input, voiceURI)
    • input -> String to be spoken
    • voiceURI -> name of the voice to use
      • Default: 'Google US English'
  • Return: none

  speech.say('hello')

• getVoiceNames:
  • Description: returns an array of all voiceURI options that can be used with the say method
  • Type: Method
  • Params: none
  • Return: Array[String]

  speech.getVoiceNames()

Example:

  let voice = speech.getVoiceNames()[3];
  speech.say('My voice is Google Deutsch', voice);

Team

• Development Team Members:
  • Alec Draymore