Text To Speech - Audio for your Websites!
Published on January 17, 2019
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Yesterday I promised to upload a tutorial on how to create an audio file from text. Amazon was my first choice and I had a decent draft almost ready but people chose Google Cloud Service.
Honestly, I didn't have the time to prepare this version the way I like but a promise is a promise and I hope posting a preview should temporarily satisfy curious minds.
What I will show is how to create a mp3 file that can be uploaded to your WP media library reading any short text.
This is a page where you can test the service.
- Open the URL in Chrome
- Insert your own text
- Select the language locale
- Click Speak It (or Replay)
- Play with the parameters until you get a natural as possible result
Change the Language/locale according to your preferences and try different Voice name settings.
Now open the inspector right-clicking on the page (or with Ctrl-Shift-I)
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On the Inspector pane go to Network and click on Media
Click the button Replay and notice what happens in the right-pane. A new row shows up.
Right-click on that row to open a popup menu.
Click on Open in new tab
And voila! a player with the audio content lets you save the file. The default name is download.wav but you should rename it before saving. Almost there, we have the file in our PC. However, there's another step involved...
WAV vs MP3
The file you've just saved is in WAV format but it's almost 10 times bigger than a MP3 with the acceptable quality for a website. So the last step will be to convert the WAV file to MP3.
Google 'convert mp3 to wav online'. There are many websites that you can choose from.
I chose an audio quality of 128 kbit/s but for voice you can use less quality for a smaller file size.
I'll be happy to get your feedback. It will definitely help me to prepare a better tutorial on this topic.
Cheers
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