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Voice-elements

42 points by tylermauthe 12y ago

0xAHHAHAHA 12y ago
Sounds works nicely for chrome, but the "there is sound on this page icon" is missing.
- nacs 12y ago
  I was wondering which tab was playing audio as well. This sounds like Chrome bug however.
pkrumins 12y ago
Impressive voice quality.
- XaspR8d 12y ago
  The voices come from your OS' voice services, so it depends on what your OS ships with. That said, both Mac and Windows have been quietly improving their speech synthesis over the years.
- 1qaz2wsx3edc 12y ago
  Speech Synthesis on OSX & Chrome is excellent, better than the native synthesis.
0xAHHAHAHA 12y ago
Ok, so it broke down.. I tried refresh the page and buttons doesn't do a thing.
- 1qaz2wsx3edc 12y ago
  I was playing around with it and it's fairly unstable, playing a blank message ex: "", seemed to crash the engine, and playing large pieces of text also seemed to crash it, the only thing that resolved the issue was restarting chrome.
XaspR8d 12y ago
Nice wrapper. That said, the standard Web Speech API really is pretty straightforward if you want to play with the raw API. I'm surprised Firefox doesn't support any part of the API. Granted, it's a Google-pushed spec, but they seem to have been working together on the now-defunct Text-to-Speech API. Plus, the speech synthesis aspect is merely handled by the OS (unlike the recognition aspect which is probably handled by Google for most users). I don't really follow web spec stuff though, so I'm pretty out of the loop.
- lstamour 12y ago
  I loaded the webpage then unplugged from the Internet and tried to play the demos. The speech synthesis was actually done over the Internet by default, and fell back to native platform only when offline, it seemed. The speech recognition did not work offline at all, though we know it should be eventually possible thanks to Android's offline dictation download (iirc?).
Aurel1us 12y ago
Is it normal that the sound continues after I close a Tab (Windows 8.1 with Chrome 38.02)?
cordite 12y ago
On the iPad, the speech API is not available, the message should say "your browser does not support .." Instead of "your browser do not support .."
- tekacs 12y ago
  https://github.com/zenorocha/voice-elements/pull/13 https://github.com/zenorocha/voice-elements/pull/13
  - egfx 12y ago
    Thought for a second that was a work around for the iPad ;)
    - tekacs 12y ago
      Would love to put that in when I'm less swamped. ;) Would've taken more than the ~30 seconds of the above, though. :P
      - egfx 12y ago
        very cool. Take a look at this.. gives a hint on how to get it working. http://stackoverflow.com/a/12569290 http://stackoverflow.com/a/12569290 Apparently iOS starts with the web audio api muted.
amelius 12y ago
Does not work on chromium/linux?
- erikschoster 12y ago
  Same here. It should work theoretically though. Chromium on linux is supposed to have speech synthesis support via festival. I have festival installed, and speech-dispatcher, and just checked chrome://flags but no luck. :-/
tree_of_item 12y ago
Speech recognition is nice, but all of this is going through Google's servers. Besides not working offline, do we really want Google listening in on every thing on the Internet?
- melling 12y ago
  Hey, you're that guy who always warns us about Google like we're all idiots. If it's optional I don't see the problem. Some people are not capable using a keyboard and a mouse, for example. Let's not let our paranoia ruin it for them. Others of us would simply like to kick back and surf the web without reaching for the keyboard or mouse. As for not working offline, I usually prefer to be online when I'm surfing the web anyway.
  - tree_of_item 12y ago
    I'm what guy? Are you implying I've made a comment like this before? If other people have brought it up, it's because it should be brought up. As for offline, Google likes to push things like Chrome apps working offline, so it does matter regardless of your snark.
    - melling 12y ago
      No, it's just the standard comment made on HN. It probably doesn't represent the population in general and it doesn't add anything to the conversation.

Voice-elements

42 points by tylermauthe 12y ago

0xAHHAHAHA 12y ago

Sounds works nicely for chrome, but the "there is sound on this page icon" is missing.

nacs 12y ago
I was wondering which tab was playing audio as well. This sounds like Chrome bug however.

pkrumins 12y ago

Impressive voice quality.

XaspR8d 12y ago
The voices come from your OS' voice services, so it depends on what your OS ships with. That said, both Mac and Windows have been quietly improving their speech synthesis over the years.
1qaz2wsx3edc 12y ago
Speech Synthesis on OSX & Chrome is excellent, better than the native synthesis.

0xAHHAHAHA 12y ago

Ok, so it broke down.. I tried refresh the page and buttons doesn't do a thing.

1qaz2wsx3edc 12y ago
I was playing around with it and it's fairly unstable, playing a blank message ex: "", seemed to crash the engine, and playing large pieces of text also seemed to crash it, the only thing that resolved the issue was restarting chrome.

XaspR8d 12y ago

Nice wrapper. That said, the standard Web Speech API really is pretty straightforward if you want to play with the raw API. I'm surprised Firefox doesn't support any part of the API. Granted, it's a Google-pushed spec, but they seem to have been working together on the now-defunct Text-to-Speech API. Plus, the speech synthesis aspect is merely handled by the OS (unlike the recognition aspect which is probably handled by Google for most users). I don't really follow web spec stuff though, so I'm pretty out of the loop.

lstamour 12y ago
I loaded the webpage then unplugged from the Internet and tried to play the demos. The speech synthesis was actually done over the Internet by default, and fell back to native platform only when offline, it seemed. The speech recognition did not work offline at all, though we know it should be eventually possible thanks to Android's offline dictation download (iirc?).

Aurel1us 12y ago

Is it normal that the sound continues after I close a Tab (Windows 8.1 with Chrome 38.02)?

cordite 12y ago

On the iPad, the speech API is not available, the message should say "your browser does not support .." Instead of "your browser do not support .."

tekacs 12y ago
https://github.com/zenorocha/voice-elements/pull/13 https://github.com/zenorocha/voice-elements/pull/13
- egfx 12y ago
  Thought for a second that was a work around for the iPad ;)
  - tekacs 12y ago
    Would love to put that in when I'm less swamped. ;) Would've taken more than the ~30 seconds of the above, though. :P
    - egfx 12y ago
      very cool. Take a look at this.. gives a hint on how to get it working. http://stackoverflow.com/a/12569290 http://stackoverflow.com/a/12569290 Apparently iOS starts with the web audio api muted.

amelius 12y ago

Does not work on chromium/linux?

erikschoster 12y ago
Same here. It should work theoretically though. Chromium on linux is supposed to have speech synthesis support via festival. I have festival installed, and speech-dispatcher, and just checked chrome://flags but no luck. :-/

tree_of_item 12y ago

Speech recognition is nice, but all of this is going through Google's servers. Besides not working offline, do we really want Google listening in on every thing on the Internet?

melling 12y ago
Hey, you're that guy who always warns us about Google like we're all idiots. If it's optional I don't see the problem. Some people are not capable using a keyboard and a mouse, for example. Let's not let our paranoia ruin it for them. Others of us would simply like to kick back and surf the web without reaching for the keyboard or mouse. As for not working offline, I usually prefer to be online when I'm surfing the web anyway.
- tree_of_item 12y ago
  I'm what guy? Are you implying I've made a comment like this before? If other people have brought it up, it's because it should be brought up. As for offline, Google likes to push things like Chrome apps working offline, so it does matter regardless of your snark.
  - melling 12y ago
    No, it's just the standard comment made on HN. It probably doesn't represent the population in general and it doesn't add anything to the conversation.