Poor man's (or woman's) TTS - streaming Google Text-To-Speech

[Kalle]

The Google voices are free if you use not more than 1 Million characters per month. Sounds for me similar to the AWS console from Amazon. You have to leave your credit card information in advance if you exceed the amount.

[jitterjames]

It looks like this will require a new plugin with a LOT of Google DLLs.

[Kalle]

It is also not sure how long the service will work or be offered for free. Well, as far as I know, this service is used in devices that support Google home - the same as the Amazon Alexa integration on new Sonos speakers.
So there's hope that Google won't change the way it works all the time.
I have no idea how much work the development of this plugin will take - but the Wave-Net voices are great and I would be one of those who would donate for it.
But with all the enthusiasm for these great sounding voices - everything has to be sent to the Google servers and therefore doesn't remain private and you always need an internet connection.
Wouldn't that be a project for the winter? 


Kalle

[jitterjames]

It is certainly a project for a rainy day.

If you want to be ready to alpha test you can sign up and get yourself a .JSON file from Google.

[Kalle]

Yes I'm ready for a test - I will sign in today - but have first tomorrow time to go deeper in the project.
I hope you will support me 

[jitterjames]

We have a new plugin!

Anyone who is interested should check out the new alpha of VoxCommando here:

https://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=2906.0