[TW5] Introducing TiddlyTalking plugin: have tiddlywiki read to you

[Jed Carty]

On a suggestion from the others here at the meet up I put together a quick wrapper on the browser text-to-speech api. It turned out that it is very easy to make a wrapper to make it work in a tiddlywiki.

So check out the demo here: http://ooktech.com/jed/ExampleWikis/TiddlyTalking/

I plan on polishing it and publishing it in the OokTech plugin library. There are many improvements that I can hopefully make like a cursor showing the position of the speech.

[Mark S.]

Is there something we need to do to our browser to make this work first? I get the red screen of embarrassment with:

ReferenceError: SpeechSynthesisUtterance is not defined

Firefox 47.0.2
Windows 7

[@TiddlyTweeter]

Whoah! Fab! Worked for me. Great idea.

If there a way to pass settings to "tweak" the "reader" it might make the experience even better.

Josiah

[Birthe C]

Hi Jed,

Works great as long as English is the language. I fell from my chair laughing testing it with Danish LOL.


Birthe

[Jed Carty]

I put the french in because Xaviers face was hilarious when it tried to read french using the english rules, but on his computer (which is set to use french) it had a surprisingly good french accent.

Mark,

The browser speech synthesis is supposed to use the system speech synthesis according to the documentation. So I assume that means that the system has to have them, it worked out of the box for everyone who tried to use it here. It worked on Mats windows laptop but I am not sure what version or browser he was using. I will ask him today and see if I can find what needs to be installed to make it work.

[Birthe C]

Hi Mark,

I read that it was compatible with firefox 49...so I would think it is the firefox version you are using that is the problem.


Birthe