You may have seen that some of my recent posts here on dev.to have included an embedded audio player at the top. This is a new liquid tag that I co...
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This.is.so.cool.
Just played around with it on this post:
This was pretty funny 😂
How do we teach this robot to pronounce dev.to as "DEV TOO"?
Also @kylegalbraith request for feature: speed up to 1.5x 2x etc.
It is possible to train the voices on the pronunciation of certain words, acronyms, etc. I have been thinking about what a good UI mechanism is to allow users to specify that. Very much open to ideas around this.
Noted, 1.5x, 2x, etc for the embedded player. Thank you for the great feedback and wonderful community @ben @jess .
I can help you with this as I have already done it.
Thank you for the offer Jochem. I will keep this in mind as I start looking into that functionality.
Would you be so kind as to answer my other question?
This is brilliant. The direct integration into DEV is an outstanding concept. I've already added a Parler tag in my latest post!
Some constructive feedback:
Great stuff!
Thank you for the great feedback! More voices are likely to come in the future and once the MVP is out you will be able to select a voice to use for automatic conversions moving forward. I have not thought about refreshing the audio after an edit has been made but it certainly could be something that gets implemented in the future.
Kyle, are these SAPI5 voices on Windows, some other type or are you using an external service/api? I would like more information. I've been working with speech synthesis sporadically for several years now and this parler thing is neat. :)
The voices in Parler are a combination of services rather than native machine SAPI voices.
Okay then I am curious which services they are and whether you want more.
Shoot me a DM on Twitter and let's chat.
I created something like this Audio Blogs
You can check the blogpost here for detailed explanation