native-messaging-espeak-ng VS proposal-type-annotations

I'm just trying to use coqui-ai/TTS so I can stream speech synthesis output to the browser as I do with eSpeak NG https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-espeak-ng. I think the issue has been brought up before on GitHub. I have not read a solution. I am ready to try again if you can suggest a minimal build process.

You can use a Native Messaging host to run local code controlled from the browser. See native-messaging-deno for a general purpose and extensible solution and deno-server where Deno's serveTls is dynamically started to run a local application, stream stdout from the application to the browser, then stop the local server.

A single page Deno server can be found here https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-espeak-ng/blob/deno-server/local_server.js. I have used this source code // https://github.com/chcunningham/atomics-post-message/blob/main/server.js, renamed to server.msj modified to use Ecmascript Modules instead of CommonJS, e.g.,

I've already achieved the requirement multiple ways, already; from using Native Messaging https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-espeak-ng, to using GNU Core Utilities tail, to Deno.watchFs() https://github.com/guest271314/fs, et al., see captureSystemAudio. The one approach I have not yet achieved is compiling to Emscripten - with SSML support.

Create a self-signed certificate. If you are on Chromium or Chrome launch with --ignore-certificate-errors-spki-list=.... Read this https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/blob/gh-pages/webtransport/webtransport_server.py#L42-L72. This is how I use HTTPS for Deno and Node local servers and WebTransport https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-espeak-ng/tree/deno-server.

I use the source code for Deno's serveTls https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-espeak-ng/blob/deno-server/local_server.js and wrote a Web server module for QuickJS https://github.com/guest271314/webserver-c/tree/quickjs-webserver.

This https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-espeak-ng/tree/deno-server is what I do using Deno

I created https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-espeak-ng which provides a means to send text or SSML to the eSpeak NG speech synthesis engine and parse the generated WAV in the browser. That bypasses waiting around another N years for Google to prioritize Web Speech API, which I see no evidence of Google doing - except for its cloud service.

I merely read the article to see how the author was implementing "Text-to-Speech"; how they implemented "Text-to-Speech"; e.g., native-messaging-espeak-ng to overcome or avoid the multiple issues and limitations with using the specified Web Speech API in the browser.

That proposal is not fully compatible with Typescript: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations?tab=readme...

They held a meeting a few months ago so it's alive but probably still years away.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations/issues/184

I particularly like this thread in the TC39 types proposal. TypeScript IS a development trojan horse and locks you into the Microsoft Way of being a JS developer.

Edit: There is a proposal to extend JavaScript with type annotations, which would allow ("a reasonably large subset") of TypeScript to run directly in the browser. Yay!

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations

More importantly, TypeScript typically commits to build things into itself when the proposal in JavaScript reaches Stage 3. The pattern matching proposal in JavaScript is Stage 1, but depends on many other proposals as well that may or may not need to be at Stage 3 as well for it to work. This particular proposal is interested on pattern matching on JavaScript Objects and other primitives, just like Python does with it’s native primitives. These are also dynamic types which helps in some areas, but makes it harder than others. Additionally, the JavaScript type annotations proposal needs to possibly account for this. So it’s going to be awhile. Like many years.

this is exactly what I want from the _Types as Comments_ proposal[0] as I think it's the only way that types can feasibly become part of the language. It's hard to imagine how all of the concepts TS introduces via special syntax can be covered otherwise.

[0] https://tc39.es/proposal-type-annotations

Crossing my fingers that the proposal for allowing (browser-ignored) type annotations in javascript progresses: https://tc39.es/proposal-type-annotations/

Between that, HTTP2/3 and ES modules many of the downsides for building apps with no compile step are almost completely mitigated.

JSDoc can get you pretty far, but it can be clumsy sometimes. There’s a [TC39 proposal](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations) to allow types to live in JS code and be treated as comments (similar with Python types today)