I had a lot of fun as a kid making Microsoft Sam say all sorts of silly things, and so I figured I'd make this so that the younger generations can enjoy the same thing. If you're old enough, you might remember 'Microsoft Sam' - the robotic sounding voice which could read things out in Microsoft Word, and help you navigate Windows.

eSpeak was one such attempt, and happily, it now (more than 20 years later) allows us to produce this fun robotic text to speech app. This things are very hard to write into a program because they are much more subtle than the pitch/harmonic modulations that make up our syllable sounds.Īs such, early attempts at machine voice generation sounded very monotone and robotic. In natural speech, there are many subtle inflections, pauses, and amplitude modulations that are used to convey emotion and properly give emphasis to the right parts of a sentence. All thanks goes to for porting the software to JavaScript so it works in your browser! The software behind this app is a JavaScript version of the eSpeak library which was originally written in C. You can download the speech by clicking the link that will appear under the 'Speak' button. Just wait for it to load (it may take a minute or so as it's a 2mb piece of software) then type your text in the box and click 'Speak'. Need more voices? Check out this voice generator website.Ĭonverts your text into a robot voice which is downloadable as an audio clip! This makes developing new, smart ReadSpeaker TTS voices with even more lifelike, expressive speech and customizable intonation faster than ever. Good luck.Feel free to use the generated audio for any of your projects (commercial or personal). With Siri, you'll need to repeat the message if it were not to your liking. Because you can move to a certain word or sentence and correct it via the rotor, dictation gives you more room to edit. Dictation can be activated by doing a two finger double-tap or by way of the dictate button, which is to the left of space. When it's done, it'll ask you if you'd like to send it.Īlthough I use Siri, I also like dictation and Fleksy. When finished, simply release the home button and it'll repeat it to you. However, you can press and hold the home button and still speak your message, even while it's active. When you release the button, Siri will ask you for the message. Hold down the home button and tell Siri to send a message to anyone, be it your father or a friend.Ģ. I've done this as a test and will list the steps below.ġ. If you tell Siri to 'send a message to dad,' it will do so and still give you the opportunity to speak your message when your finger is on the home button. Yes, the home button will ensure that your message goes through successfully, provided that it's held while you're speaking.

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