In some cases you won’t even know if the user will get a male or female voice.Īlthough, you make a direct call to the speak API and choose a specific voice like “Google UK Female”, if a user is browsing on iOS with Safari the voice will not be available.
If you make a call to the speak API using the default voice it will sound very different on different users devices and browsers. You can’t be sure of a consistent user experience when it comes to the spoken voice or accent. Gargling Bagpipesīut there is a problem, each browser and device can have a different set of “Voices”. Today the browser can instantly speak text on the client side and with quite reasonable quality. Gone are the days of waiting for Text To Speech engines to render MP3 audio files from text and then download them from servers. Speech Synthesis or more commonly known as Text To Speech (TTS) is now available in most modern browsers. This is the easiest way to use the spoken word in your app or website. HTML5 introduces the Speech API for Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition. Audio stream: Fallsback to server generated audio Don’t Clog the Tubes! How does it work? Browser & Device Support Native support: built into the browser.
