These include British English, American English, Australian English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Danish and Russian. You can also store audio streams as MP3, Vorbis and PCM file formats, and there’s support for a range of international languages and dialects. To get text converted into speech, you just have to send it through the API, and it’ll send an audio stream straight back to your application.

What’s great is that Polly is so easy to use. It sports an API that lets you easily integrate speech synthesis capabilities into ebooks, articles and other media. Developers can use the software to create speech-enabled products and apps. Employing advanced deep learning techniques, the software turns text into lifelike speech. Unfortunately, the speech-to-text API is supported only in Chrome and Firefox (with a flag), so a lot of people will probably see that message.+Affordable +Easy-to-use +Supports multiple file types +Multiple language optionsĪlexa isn’t the only artificial intelligence tool created by tech giant Amazon as it also offers an intelligent text-to-speech system called Amazon Polly. The first thing we need to do is check if the user has access to the API and show an appropriate error message. It also allows you to dictate special characters like full stops, question marks, and new lines. It recognized correctly almost all of my speaking and knew which words go together to form phrases that make sense. The Speech Recognition API is surprisingly accurate for a free browser feature. We have SpeechRecognition for understanding human voice and turning it into text (Speech -> Text) and SpeechSynthesis for reading strings out loud in a computer generated voice (Text -> Speech). The Web Speech API is actually separated into two totally independent interfaces. To view the full source code go to the Download button near the top of the page. The HTML and CSS are pretty standard so we are going to skip them and go straight to the JavaScript. We are going to include them directly via CDN, no need to get NPM involved for such a tiny project. We won't be using any fancy dependencies, just good old jQuery for easier DOM operations and Shoelace for CSS styles. Our App for Taking Notes Using Voice Input. Shows all notes and gives the option to listen to them via Speech Synthesis.Takes notes by using voice-to-text or traditional keyboard input.To showcase the ability of the API we are going to build a simple voice-powered note app. We will also use it to do the opposite - reading out strings in a human-like voice. It's a very powerful browser interface that allows you to record human speech and convert it into text. In this tutorial we are going to experiment with the Web Speech API.

Read out loud text box and record