
Foreword
Anyone heard of text to speech (TTS), the thing that is used by anyone to hear the written word?.
Or that text to speech is the process of converting text to a voice, usually synthetic output?.
When do you want to hear the text or can’t read it?.
Why do we uses TTS in all our posts?, mainly poems?.
Perhaps sometimes we can’t or don’t want to affect the text?.
Text To Speech (TTS) is the process of converting a series of sentences to human speech.
This can be done in a variety of ways, for example, using a cloud service or setting up an expensive service.
We have written a simple tool to provide text to speech using pure web browser-based technology with no service involvement.
Enter some text to hear what comes out!
Our spoken poems are currently generated offline using Balabolka.
Balabolka uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API and allows us to alter a voice rate and pitch.
Spoken TTS can be heard throughout our site generated from our poems.
tool
Instructions
Speech Input Controls
- Input box – enter the text for speech, you can paste stuff in here; please note the more text the longer the initial preparation of the speech.
- Say It – start the speech.
- Stop – stop the speech.
- Reset – reset the tool’s controls to original values.
Speech Quality Controls
- Amplitude slider – adjust the volume.
- Pitch – adjust high low or high you want the pitc.h
- Speed – adjust the speed of words.
- Word Gap – adjust the silence between words.
- Voice – select the voice sound.
- Variant – apply variants to the selected voice.
Poem
Haiku
Wooded Path
has the wooded park --
a madness and scented trails
walking towards laws