MeSpeak.js 2.0 – Text-to-Speech in JavaScript
(Now Go Bang!) Announcing meSpeak.js 2.0: TTS in JS, now even better.
MeSpeak.js 2.0 – Text-to-Speech in JavaScript launched on August 10, 2019 with 84 votes, #436 of 3,185 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.
In plain words
MeSpeak.js 2.0 is a JavaScript library that converts text into spoken audio. It lets developers add text-to-speech functionality directly into web applications. The tool is designed for programmers building interactive websites or applications that need voice output capabilities. It works as a client-side solution, meaning the speech synthesis happens in the user's browser rather than requiring external services.
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From the sources
I am happy to announce a long planned for update to meSpeak.js , an open source TTS for the Web in JavaScript. This version brings some major update (and some minor discontinuities in API as well.) In a nutshell, meSpeak.js is the open source eSpeak program crosscompiled to JS using Emscripten (a minimal POSIX runtime to run LLVM compiler output in JS) running in the browser with some additional API glued on top. MeSpeak.js is based on speak.js , which has been an early demo application for Emscripten, but differs somewhat in architecture and features (like access to the entirety of eSpeak options, facilities for export and/or buffering of audio data, a built-in audio playback API, modular…from masswerk.at
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