Behold! The Ultimate starter Javascript app; the Text to Speech App!
This one is Arguably better than the python version because at javascript can run on literally any machine with a web browser. You copy these three code blocks into three separate txt files, put them all in the same folder, rename them and Boom! Your all set.
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Javascript Text To Speech Converter</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="hero">
<h1>Text to Speech <span>Converter</span></h1>
<textarea placeholder="Write anything here.."></textarea>
<div class="row">
<select></select>
<button>Listen</button>
</div>
</div>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>style.css
*{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-family: 'Poppins', sans-serif;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.hero{
width: 100%;
min-height: 100vh;
background: linear-gradient(45deg, #010758, #490d61);
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
flex-direction: column;
color: #fff;
}
.hero h1{
font-size: 45px;
font-weight: 500;
margin-top: -50px;
margin-bottom: 50px;
}
.hero h1 span{
color: #ff2963;
}
textarea{
width: 600px;
height: 250px;
background: #403d84;
color: #fff;
font-size: 15px;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
padding: 20px;
border-radius: 10px;
resize: none;
margin-bottom: 30px;
}
textarea::placeholder{
font-size: 16px;
color: #ddd;
}
.row{
width: 600px;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 20px;
}
button{
background: #ff2963;
color: #fff;
font-size: 16px;
padding: 10px 30px;
border-radius: 35px;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
cursor: pointer;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
button img {
width: 16px;
margin-right: 10px;
}
select{
flex: 1;
color: #fff;
background: #403d84;
height: 50px;
padding: 0 20px;
outline: 0;
border: 0;
border-radius: 35px;
}script.js
let speech = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance();
let voices = [];
let voiceSelect = document.querySelector("select");
window.speechSynthesis.onvoiceschanged = () => {
voices = window.speechSynthesis.getVoices();
speech.voice = voices[0];
voices.forEach((voice, i) => (voiceSelect.options[i] = new Option(voice.name, i)));
}
voiceSelect.addEventListener("change", ()=>{
speech.voice = voices[voiceSelect.value];
});
document.querySelector("button").addEventListener("click", () =>{
speech.text = document.querySelector("textarea").value;
window.speechSynthesis.speak(speech)
});
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