Text-to-speech in the Web Speech API?

[Achin Sharma]

I tried searching but could not find anything, here or over at Google. So how do I do text-to-speech? Preferably Google Now like voice.

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

Overview here seems to indicate that the text-to-speech API of the Web Speech API is not implemented in any browser:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/voice-to-drive-the-web-introduction-to-speech-api.html

However, Chrome has a tts extension that you can use and that does speech synthesis: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tts.html .

HTH.

Cheers,
Silvia.

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Achin Sharma <achs...@gmail.com> wrote:

I tried searching but could not find anything, here or over at Google. So how do I do text-to-speech? Preferably Google Now like voice.

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[Achin Sharma]

But I am not in an extension environment. I want to use it in a web app on localhost. Any idea when will it be implemented?

[Thomas Alisi]

the unofficial google text-to-speech service

http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/14/the-unofficial-google-text-to-speech-api/

[Robert Jones]

The Bing Translate API has a Text to Speech feature which works quite well and is documented/supported. 

I put together a Ruby/Sinatra demo that uses it - http://bing-translate-tts-demo.craic.com/

http://craiccomputing.blogspot.com/2013/04/web-text-to-speech-using-bing-translate.html

https://github.com/CodeBlock/bing_translator-gem

It would great if Google made it's equivalent available to developers (as an API, not a browser extension)

--Rob

[Peter Beverloo]

The Web Speech API describes part of a text to speech API, which is currently being implemented as an experimental feature in Blink.  See the following document for more information:

https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/speechapi.html

Peter

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[Will Koper]

It's implemented in chrome.

http://updates.html5rocks.com/2013/01/Voice-Driven-Web-Apps-Introduction-to-the-Web-Speech-API

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[PhistucK]

Only the speech to text part is implemented. The text to speech part is being implemented, as Peter indicated.

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[Jones]

Hai boss