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I saved this to pastebin (mostly to see the syntax). Does this require Voicegen to be installed or how's it working? https://pastebin.com/zuRVpiVh

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I believe it's using the web speech API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...

I've played with it a bit (I made a local nonsense social media thing, reading llm content), and its surprisingly easy to get text to display in sync with the audio. It works with voices that are installed on the users system.

The bookmarklet just uses the web speech API. Voicegen does not need to be installed and can generate (on my system) wav files of about 1 hour in length with good speech quality using PicoTTS.

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