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Make your own website speak

in info

December 12, 2017

How to add text to speech capabilities to your own website? The 3 possible ways to add text-to-speech to a website Implement the web speech api interface, as described here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesis Implement text-to-speech (TTS), that is NOT based on the web speech api, provided by companies developing the TTS technology itself. This route is not recommended for most websites since it is either low quality or expensive. Implement ttsreader’s api - which itself uses the web speech api, but wraps it in the best way for most site-owners.

Watch: Comparing top text to speech solutions (by independent youtuber)

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July 5, 2017

Watch the live comparison here. We just stumbled upon this very interesting YouTube, demoing live comparison of top speech to text solutions online. The blogger here simply searched ‘text to speech’ on Google, and then tested all the different free websites that he got on the first search results. It’s all done live - so you can see the websites and hear the different voices on each one. He uses the same text for all websites - so you actually get a very good comparison of the different text to speech solutions.