Comments on: Google Text-To-Speech (TTS)

By: Joe Shelley

Joe Shelley — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:33:38 +0000

There’s also a nice jQuery TTS plugin and API over at http://www.jtalkplugin.com. No download at the moment though

By: Gus

Gus — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:48:13 +0000

They’ve added a bazillion (ie, 27) new TTS languages: http://googletranslate.blogspot.com/2010/05/giving-voice-to-more-languages-on.html

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:58:24 +0000

Check out JSonic which includes a Python TTS web service you can run in your own domain plus a JS lib for multichannel speech and sound. http://github.com/parente/jsonic

By: Weston Ruter

Weston Ruter — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:57:27 +0000

@andufo, thanks. Not sure about either: There are no voice font parameters (gender, pitch, speed, etc.) that I am aware of. And I am not aware if Google is planning on supporting this TTS service as an official public API. We can only hope! I hope any such future API would also include the time indicies for each of the words in the audio so that a “read-along” app could be automated: http://weston.ruter.net/projects/html5-audio-read-along/

By: andufo

andufo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:47:05 +0000

Hi Weston, this is great (thank you for the post). I have 2 doubts, though:

1) is there any parameter to configure the typ of voice used in the TTS? (male, female, robot)

2) do you know if google is planning to release an official-open API for the TTS service?

By: Weston Ruter

Weston Ruter — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:45:34 +0000

@andufo: Thank you!! I added a language selection drop-down.

By: andufo

andufo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:44:27 +0000

just tried this:
http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=fr&q=Bonjour

It works too! (french, spanish, italian, german)

By: billy

billy — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:34:18 +0000

i like to make it say funny stuff

By: Nehad

Nehad — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:40:04 +0000

Is it only in English ? waiting for Google tts in all languages ^___^

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:13:12 +0000

Has anyone created a website form where the submit button gets sent off using some service/code that results in a telephone call using the text to speech technology?

I’m in need of this for a website I’m building. Can someone point me to code or a free service I can use to accomplish this?

Thanks!