ttsreader
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Text to Speech wrapper, player and helpers for the web-speech-api speech synthesis
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ttsreader is a Text to Speech wrapper, reader / player and helpers for the web-speech-api speech synthesis
See published npm package https://www.npmjs.com/package/ttsreader
It is the engine behind the popular ttsreader.com online text & website reader , as well as:
- Audactive - voice enabled learning resources
- Speechnotes' (online dictation notepad) proof read capability
- Speechnlogger's speak out loud
Import:
To use in your own html / js code use one of the following methods:
<script src="https://unpkg.com/ttsreader/build/bundle.min.js"></script>
- Or - download the following built file /build/bundle.min.js and use directly in your code
<script src="bundle.min.js"></script>
- Or - for Node based projects:
npm i ttsreader
How to use?
See 'test.html' for a complete example.
The tts engine itself:
let tts = wsGlobals.TtsEngine;
OR
import {TtsEngine} from "tts-engine"
See test.html for real example on use. test.html
Tests Documentation
Since there are so many different platfrom-browser combos, we have to carefully test on each. Documentation bout it is here: TESTS.md
Showcases
This is used on the following sites:
TODOs:
- Utils to 'cut' large texts into smaller sections.
- Generic Player with UI, with options to play
- text
- element and its contents
How to contribute & publish updates to this package?
- This package is published both on GitHub and on npmjs:
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/ttsreader
- https://github.com/RonenR/ttsreader
- To publish an updated version - simply run
npm publish
, it will commit & push updates both to github and npm.
Important practical non-obvious lessons we learned about tts:
- You cannot send too many chars to REMOTE tts voice. It jams. Probably - the whole text is processed at once, and some mp3 is generated on the server?
- 38,000 is too much. It basically never starts.
- Local voices (at least on mac) worked well.
- With Google's voices - they will use the correct voice only sometimes. It's not consistent at all! (On Mac.) // TODO: Test on Windows!
- Solution: If you send a single utterance - it reads with a consistent voice.
- Problem: if they get the wrong voice - it will mess up reading for a large portion of the text...
- Sent google a bug report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1344469
- onboundary does not work with Google voices. So - we have to send small chunks anyhow...
- Of course - the famous google voice terminating itself after some circa 15 secs...