select-and-speak

Select and speak (text selection and speech synthesis) - Web based TTS

Installation

npm install select-and-speak

Description

Select (highlight) text in your browser and have it spoken by speech synthesis. Use https://github.com/tom-s/speak-tts for the speech synthesis.

See browser support here : http://caniuse.com/#feat=speech-synthesis

Demo

Here

Usage

Import the component :

import Speech from 'select-and-speak' // es6
// var Speech = require('select-and-speak') //if you use es5

Start the component :

const speech = new Speech()
speech.init().then((data) => {
    // The "data" object contains the list of available voices and the voice synthesis params
    console.log("Speech is ready, voices are available", data)
}).catch(e => {
    console.error("An error occured while initializing : ", e)
})

// Exemple with conf
Speech.init({
    'wordwrap': true, // default: whether or not selection should be expanded to the end of the word
    'autospeak': true // default: whether or not text should be spoken on selection (mouseUp or touchEnd event)
    // you can also add similar options to the ones in init() from https://github.com/tom-s/speak-tts
});

The Speech class inherits from the class provided by speak-tts. It means all the methods from speak-tts are available, plus the following:

• setWordwrap(bool)
• setAutospeak(bool)
• speakSelectedText(options = {})
• getSelectedText()
• for the remaining methods please check out https://github.com/tom-s/speak-tts

Set wordwrap :

speech.setWordwrap(false)

Set autospeak :

speech.setAutospeak(false)

Speak the current selection :

speech.speakSelectedText() // you can add similar options to the ones in speak() from  https://github.com/tom-s/speak-tts

Get current text selection :

speech.getSelectedText({})

Tests

These will be added soon. Please do not hesitate to add some !

About the Author

I am a full-stack Javascript developer based in Lyon, France.

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License

speech and speak is dual licensed under the MIT license and GPL. For more information click here.