undefined | Better HN

0 pointsrhizome8y ago0 comments

Google used to at least generally support the idea of the open web

Yes, but history teaches us that they are terrible at product management. I mean, they could at least just call it "Chrome TTS" or something until they put the whole thing together.

0 comments

3 comments · 2 top-level

thesandlord8y ago· 1 in thread

The demo might only work in Chrome, but the API is just a standard REST API. Most people will be using this API on the server side to generate an MP3 which is streamed to the user.

Chrome actually has its own TTS engine (as does FF, Safari, etc), though the quality obviously isn't as good.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynth...

(I work for GCP)

matthewmacleod8y ago

As I understand it, Chrome does indeed use the Google cloud platform to do its speech synthesis behind the scenes – I suppose we'll see improvements in the quality of those voices soon, too.

matthewmacleod8y ago

That's not entirely fair – it does work over relatively standard protocols behind the scenes. I'm just annoyed at the lack of care displayed here.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse