Talking Posts 0.2.1

[Peter]

This plugin is no longer available or supported.

Just a fun prototype I decided to make while playing with the Chromes Web Speech API that I thought I would share for those that might like to play with it .  I don't plan on submitting it to the library or adding much to it, as the API is a bit buggy and not supported in other browsers yet (Firefox is planing to add support I believe).

Note: Chrome 33+ only.

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Download: Talking Posts

[Former Member]

Hi,Peter

I just tried this using the latest version of Chrome - And works fine - I really like this
And fun to hear the poetry read out on the pages on my forum -

Just a note I found adding the plugin to the top of the listed plugins on your forum
helps the plugin work and  thus showing the button to hear the posts

Hehehe luv the female voice generated - would be cool if there an option to hear it read out male or female

Cool plugin for chrome

Steve

[leif]

This is kickass! I'd love to have an option to switch the voice to UK Male or something!

Edit: Bug report: /post/20609 the /post/ links don't show the button.

[Former Member]

Hi,
Any updates when it will work on other browsers? I use firefox and so do many of my members. I think that this would be awesome, especially for the visually impaired members that I have. It would such a service for them!

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Mar 15, 2015 15:25:01 GMT -8 @huggzfaerie said:

Hi,
Any updates when it will work on other browsers? I use firefox and so do many of my members. I think that this would be awesome, especially for the visually impaired members that I have. It would such a service for them!

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API#Browser_compatibility
The Web Speech API is pending for Firefox OS 2.1: a patch has been submitted (see bug 1032964).

[wildmaven]

Thanks for this! My members are going ape over it!

[Former Member]

hmm Peter

She is speaking in a foreign language to me lol

Dave

[Peter]

Dave B ,

It's set to "native", however you can change it.

dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/speechapi.html#dfn-utterancevoiceuri

The plugin is editable, so you can try and set the "voiceURI" value yourself to one of these...

Forget that, seems it's still rather buggy, and it's the "voice" property that needs setting to an object from the voices array.

[Former Member]

Dec 24, 2015 17:02:31 GMT -8 Peter said:

Dave B ,

It's set to "native", however you can change it.

dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/speechapi.html#dfn-utterancevoiceuri

The plugin is editable, so you can try and set the "voiceURI" value yourself to one of these...

Forget that, seems it's still rather buggy, and it's the "voice" property that needs setting to an object from the voices array.

    Hi Peter 

    Il await another tag for next instructions so can fix this

    However its Christmas so take your time and enjoy the festive period

    Dave

[Former Member]

ok, brilliant but she sounds like german dictator, any chance of a different accent ?


She sounds german lol, speaking english.

edit: just tested again and she is actually speaking alittle german or austrian, she says a lot of 'kleine' words 

edit: or french, is really difficult.


would be great if this could get fixed, who doesnt want talking posts !!!! 

[Matt]

This is actually a really cool plugin, but she says the number in french Peter
would be an awesome plugin though wondering if there is any way some of this could get fixed.

[Former Member]

ok, so i've discovered its a bloke on my friend's browser. and i think he's american.

The plot thickens, who is this mystery person ?

[Chris]

Neat plugin Peter , I just tested it and it was speaking in a thick Deutsch accent to me so I inspected the array of voices returned by getVoices and to my surprise Deutsch was set as default (go figure). I tested the feature in a console using the given example

var u = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance();
    u.text = 'Hello World';
    u.lang = 'en-US';
    u.rate = 1.2;
    u.onend = function(event) { alert('Finished in ' + event.elapsedTime + ' seconds.'); }
    speechSynthesis.speak(u);
and it spoke to me in American English (my browser's language setting: "en-US") so I figured I would set the lang equal to navigator.language and not explicitly set a voice or voiceURI but it still didn't work so I stepped through the chunker code and found this part was evaluating false when x was equal "lang"

for (x in utt) {
if ( utt.hasOwnProperty(x)  && x !== 'text') {
newUtt[x] = utt[x];
}
}

*still a mystery since ({lang:"en-GB"}).hasOwnProperty("lang") has no problem returning true

But after modifying that snippet to account for the "lang" special case this plugin will not shutup! LOL loving it! 

for (x in utt) {
if ( (utt.hasOwnProperty(x) || (x == 'lang' && utt["lang"])) && x !== 'text') {
newUtt[x] = utt[x];
}
}

Wormopolis  should adapt this for his chess plugin to give play by play on game playbacks, I did something similar on a vb program years ago and it was a joy listening to PGN replays while doing other stuff.

tl;dr Summary:

SPOILER: Click to show

1. //msg.voiceURI = "native";
 msg.lang = navigator.language;
   
   
2. for (x in utt) {
if ( (utt.hasOwnProperty(x) || (x == 'lang' && utt["lang"])) && x !== 'text') {
newUtt[x] = utt[x];
}
}

Edit:

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Also added page changeif(route && route.name && route.name.match(/^thread|search_results|all_recent_posts$/)){
this.add_hear_button();
               pb.events.on('afterSearch', this.add_hear_button.bind(this))
}

Peter, just noticed that the function has to be bound since it utilizes `this`

[Former Member]

so is this getting updated ?


anyone ?

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Jan 5, 2016 12:44:35 GMT -8 @joecool111 said:

so is this getting updated ?


anyone ?

Probably not.