Testing text to speech - Upgoat

It may be triggered by js, but is it actually fully client-side?

These systems have a tendency to silently round-trip to a remote service for the speech synthesis, not to mention may have "telemetry" built in (if it's free, you are the product).

See, for example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesisVoice/localService

And note that property is read-only; you have no control over it. At best you can check and hope it answers honestly.

I don't think it would be wise to risk instructing people's browsers to connect to some centralized TTS service, run by some globohomo corporation, and send them the things that are said here.

[ - ] Nosferatjew 1 point 3.7 yearsAug 7, 2021 00:36:39 ago (+1/-0)*

Maybe if it wasn't an annoying woman's voice. Is Crocodile Dundee an option?

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[ - ] system [op] 2 points 3.7 yearsAug 7, 2021 01:28:32 ago (+2/-0)

It seems to vary greatly between device and browser.

[ - ] 3starAgent 1 point 3.7 yearsAug 7, 2021 00:25:53 ago (+2/-1)

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[ - ] Hey_guys_whats_up 0 points 3.7 yearsAug 12, 2021 18:50:18 ago (+0/-0)

The others may not get it, but I see what you're saying, and you're probably right. I mean, it's at least something a bit different.

[ - ] chrimony 0 points 3.7 yearsAug 7, 2021 19:00:59 ago (+0/-0)

Would this feature be useful to you at all?

No, but preview would.

PS: I notice "Formatting help" is now visible. Thank you.

[ - ] account deleted by user 0 points 3.7 yearsAug 7, 2021 11:24:45 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] asdf23 0 points 3.7 yearsAug 7, 2021 11:20:03 ago (+0/-0)

If your getting bored maintaining the site I suggest you look at testing frameworks and catching fraud. Perhaps enable the community to detect fraud. Or another biggie is to accept photos, perhaps they are queued up until a moderator had approved them. Voat is important. If your overwhelmed or burnt out please speak up.

[ - ] account deleted by user 0 points 3.7 yearsAug 7, 2021 11:13:56 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] PuttitoutIsGone 0 points 3.7 yearsAug 7, 2021 11:12:20 ago (+0/-0)

The abuse of this should be entertaining...so i vote yes

[ - ] Monica 0 points 3.7 yearsAug 7, 2021 08:58:19 ago (+0/-0)

TTS was fun when voat would go down and we all went to the chatroom with the world on it.

[ - ] Artificial_Intelligentile 0 points 3.7 yearsAug 7, 2021 04:30:39 ago (+0/-0)

how do i make it stop reading??

[ + ] system

[ - ] system [op] 0 points 3.7 yearsAug 7, 2021 04:34:07 ago (+0/-0)

You can't right now besides reloading the page, I will get the kinks worked out and flesh it out more in the coming days.

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[ - ] Artificial_Intelligentile 0 points 3.7 yearsAug 7, 2021 07:56:51 ago (+0/-0)

cool, thx

[ - ] Artificial_Intelligentile 0 points 3.7 yearsAug 7, 2021 04:25:56 ago (+0/-0)

just tested it and it works fine. I will definitly use this to read through uninteresting walls of text while still browsing different content simultaneously. So..
Thank you System! Great Stuff!! make it work on comments too!

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Testing text to speech submitted by system to TalkDev 3.7 yearsAug 7, 2021 00:25:00 ago (+9/-0) (TalkDev)

Testing text to speech
submitted by system to TalkDev 3.7 yearsAug 7, 2021 00:25:00 ago (+9/-0) (TalkDev)