Speech synthesis made easy - Browser based text to speech (TTS)
Installation
npm install nitor-tts
Description
Speech synthesis (tts) for the browser. Wrapping the browser Speech Synthesis API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesis) and providing a similar interface, it improves it by : -> init() has optional paramters for volume,rate and pitch -> speak() converts the text into speech with specified voice
- handling the fact that Chrome load voices in an asynchronous manner when others browsers don't -> voice list supoort browser specific voice
- throwing specific exceptions: explicit exceptions will be thrown if you pass parameters with incompatible values to any of the methods
Work in Chrome, Edge and Mozila. See browser support here : http://caniuse.com/#feat=speech-synthesis
Usage
Import the library :
import NitorTTS from 'NitorTTS' // es6
Check for browser support :
speech = new NitorTTS() // will throw an exception if not browser supported
if(speech.hasBrowserSupport()) { // returns a boolean
console.log("speech synthesis supported")
}
Init the speech component :
init(paremters)
You can pass the following properties to the init function:
- voice : the voice to use // default is chosen by your browser if not provided
- lang // default is determined by your browser if not provided
- volume // optional default is 1
- rate // optional default 1
- pitch // optional default 1
// Example with full conf
init('Microsoft Zira - English (United States)','en-US',1,1);
Read a text :
speech.speak{
text: 'Hello, how are you today ?'}
You can pass the following properties to the speak function:
- text: text to be spoken
Pause talking in progress:
Speech.pause()
Resume talking in progress:
Speech.resume()
Cancel talking in progress:
Speech.cancel()
Get boolean indicating if the utterance queue contains as-yet-unspoken utterances:
Speech.pending()
Get boolean indicating if talking is paused:
Speech.paused()
Get boolean indicating if talking is in progress:
Speech.speaking()