Text to speech feature

[pantp]

This small plugin would allow readers to listen to article text. It could be a small play button in the corner of the article page.

[jportorreal00]

Would we save all of the mp3s onto the server?

[pantp]

I didn't think we needed to. Is there a plugin available that will let us read the text as it's given aka without saving any mp3s?

[jportorreal00]

Goals now:

• Find TTS Plug-In
• Implement it into Wagtail form
• Make sure the conversion is correct

Nice to have:

• Slider/Track Bar for Audio

[R0ham]

A new branch was created to implement the text-to-speech feature, called text-to-speech-v2, unfortunately little progress has been made except for documentation enhancements. In the future, this branch can be used by others interested in continuing to implement this feature.

There are resources online with examples of forms of text-to-speech implementation. One example is https://www.readspeaker.com/blog/uncategorized/good-examples-of-web-sites-implementing-text-to-speech-online/. It seems there are really two options: one is a radio style button that remains static on the screen (i.e., as others have said this could be used for just playing article text) and the other is — I'd imagine more challenging to implement but potentially more compelling — which allows you to drag on any portion of the site for it to be read to you.