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Speak, without speaking.
Text to Speak is a very simple desktop app that allows you to use your operating systems built in speech synthesis to convert any text into a synthesized voice. I have a friend online who only communicates with text to speech synthesis over voice chat, and while it causes no problems they’re often left waiting on integrated apps to connect to their server so I wanted to see if I could create a fast app that gets straight to the point and allows for easy communication via text to speech.
The Team
Alick Doggett
The sole member of the team, researching and building the…
app and now working his new job at Livebuzz!
Tech Stack
We used Tauri, Javascript and HTML I chose Tauri as a framework that allowed me to make my javascript web app into a desktop app that can run natively on your computer instead of on a web browser
Challenges Faced
There was a lot of difficulty with time keeping due to starting a job, as such I struggled to research how to properly implement various features related to both audio and inplementing API requests into an app. There was a number of features I would have loved to have added, including greater control of audio inputs and outputs and support for both API text to speech programs and local speech synthesis programs.