Speech Synthesis

Beat includes preliminary support for text-to-speech. Functionality will be expanded in future.

NOTE: The plugin has to reside in memory to use text-to-speech methods. To make it resident, you need to either register a window, observer (like Beat.onTextChange()) or a widget.

Create a new speech synthesis instance

let speech = Beat.speech()

The object has following properties:

.rate — speaking speed
.volume — volume (from 0.0 to 1.0)
.language — speaking language identifier (ie. en), defaults to system language
.pitchMultiplier — speaker pitch

Speaking

Speak a string:

speech.speak("Hello world")

Speech will run in the background. You can stop the synthesis at any time:

speech.stop()