Top 9 JavaScript text-to-speech Projects

read-aloud

10 1,254 7.9 JavaScript

An awesome browser extension that reads aloud webpage content with one click

Project mention: Ask HN: Any good (free?) TTS article readers? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-14

I use the Read Aloud Firefox extension to read newspaper articles and the wandering inn stories. Works well for me. In the configuration there are free and premium voices. I enable Google Translate voice and increase the speed a bit.
Main repo (website there too, or search on Firefox extensions): https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud

botium-speech-processing

1 942 3.8 JavaScript

Botium Speech Processing
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cboard

4 638 9.5 JavaScript

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) system with text-to-speech for the browser

Project mention: Best AAC/Text-to-Speech | /r/SpicyAutism | 2023-07-07

Cboard works on Android and Windows and web browsers. It's free because it's open-source and you can turn on "live mode" in settings which lets you type your own cards and play them out loud straight away without having to store them (like TTS).

google-tts

3 273 0.0 JavaScript

Google TTS (Text-To-Speech) for node.js
easy-speech

1 147 8.5 JavaScript

🔊 Cross browser Speech Synthesis also known as Text to speech or TTS; no dependencies; uses Web Speech API

Project mention: My prepared repositories for hacktoberfest 23 - any contributions are welcomed 🚀 | dev.to | 2023-10-01

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NOVA-NodeJS

3 66 4.7 JavaScript

NOVA is a customizable voice assistant made with Node.js.
voicevox-anki

1 5 0.0 JavaScript

Documentation on how to add voicevox support to anki cards
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web-speech-synthesis-and-recognition

1 1 0.0 JavaScript

Speech to Text and Text to Speech on a web browser
javascript-projects

1 0 0.0 JavaScript

Javascript projects for web developers. (by enesskilic)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

JavaScript text-to-speech related posts

Ask HN: Any good (free?) TTS article readers?
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2024
Web Speech API is (still) broken on Linux circa 2023
8 projects | /r/javascript | 15 Apr 2023
Which speech engine powers termux-tts-speak?
1 project | /r/termux | 12 Feb 2023
Looking for browser-based, natural TTS
1 project | /r/software | 12 Aug 2022
Anti-vaxxer group is using India's drop in COVID cases for promoting Ivermicitin via famous browser extension 'Read Aloud' used by millions especially those with accessibility needs
1 project | /r/india | 23 Sep 2021
Possible Compromise of the Extension
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2021
Possible compromise of famous Read Aloud browser extension
1 project | /r/firefox | 23 Sep 2021
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surveyjs.io | 26 Apr 2024

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Index

What are some of the best open-source text-to-speech projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	read-aloud	1,254
2	botium-speech-processing	942
3	cboard	638
4	google-tts	273
5	easy-speech	147
6	NOVA-NodeJS	66
7	voicevox-anki	5
8	web-speech-synthesis-and-recognition	1
9	javascript-projects	0