Sounds like Alex from OSX.
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#12http://syntensity.com/static/espeak.html
If you're looking for a client side solution, here's espeak compiled to JS using emscripten.
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#13Thank you :) Really needed something like this!
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#14Great, simply great API that just works. Keep up the good work!
What I would love to see now would be the ability to send compressed text to shorten the url.
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#15Awesome! Will you release a speech-to-text API as well, or know of a good one? Thanks!
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#16Very nice. Would be good to have the option of other formats, specifically Vorbis and/or Opus.
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#17Would be great if you could share your code on Github
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#18just wanted to add: you can now do this all in the browser (100% client side), too -> http://lalo.li/ (it's forkable)
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#19http://syntensity.com/static/espeak.html If you're looking for a client side solution, here's espeak compiled to JS using emscripten.
Neat, once again, emscripten proves useful. I do find it important though to point out the lack of a good open text-to-speech engine.
Here is a speech as rendered by tts-api.com (http://goo.gl/PoZc4). Now, for speak.js [1], to make a comparison, paste in the first few of the top paragraphs from here [2] and compare the quality between the two.
There really is a gap to fill for a good open-source alternative here. But I suspect the main barrier is that there is a large amount of data needed to generate good voices. Still, a worthy target.
[1]: I tried to make a URL for this too, but despite the URL looking as if it could take arguments it refused to work, at least for me under Firefox and Chrome.
[2]: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/business/worldbusiness/25i...
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#20pretty good. A nice to have will be to let the audio play in browser as well instead of just having a link.