Add Speech to Text

[poricaihong]

TTS is a great job. It would be even more perfect if language could be converted into annotations.

[ImperialSquid]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion! Others have asked for the same thing so it's already on my todo list for future updates, however my priorities at the moment are

• Speaking the full text of an article
• Highlighting the full text
• Highlighting words as they are spoken
  due to greater demand for those.

Rest assured that speech to text will be added at some point though!

[diabolusss]

Hi,

@ImperialSquid I've recently found your plugin. Thank you for the great work!
(Although I can't make it work, but that's another story.)
While searching for a solution, I stumbled upon this thread and wanted to share a really useful speech-to-text application called nerd-dictation, which utilizes Vosk speech recognition models. I don't know if it works on Windows, but it works very well on Linux. And the excellent news is that it doesn't need any integration at all.

[ImperialSquid]

Hi @diabolusss, thanks for the tip! I'll keep it in mind!

No guarantees about development in the near future on this or any other features though just fyi, I've got a surgery, a house move and a new job coming up in the next few months so very little space on my plate for ZoTTS unfortunately...

That said, please do open an issue if you're having trouble, I'll still try to give advice where I can! (Linux can be a complicated beast when it comes to TTS so I'm not terribly surprised lol)

Alternatively if you're having trouble with the speech synthesis itself and not ZoTTS in general, you can ask over on the speech dispatcher repo, since that's what ZoTTS relies on (through some Firefox APIs)