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Does anyone know how the Google TTS voices in the example are exposed by Google? Is there an API / service for these? I haven't been able to find it.

I was able to use them on PageNodes via the "espeak" output just fine, but would like to use them directly in my own apps.

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The source for pagenodes is here: https://github.com/monteslu/pagenodes and you can look at src/editor/nodeDefs/core/espeak.js as an example.

Also MDN has some pretty good documentation on the WebSpeech API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...

This might help you: https://github.com/monteslu/pagenodes/blob/7388ce58726836cf6...

Super helpful. Thanks!

In Chrome the following works as a basic sample:

  speech = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(String("生日快乐"))
  voice = speechSynthesis.getVoices()[80]  // use Google Chinese Voice
  speech.voice = voice
  speechSynthesis.speak(speech)

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