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Web player for terminal session recordings
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Feature: Text to speech #255

Open map7 opened 11 months ago

map7 commented 11 months ago

Instead of recording audio which takes a lot of space, what about using 'text to speech' instead and getting the browser to play the correct text at the right time of the recording.

https://dev.to/asaoluelijah/text-to-speech-in-3-lines-of-javascript-b8h

This would keep the size of the recordings down but add the ability to put speech alongside the videos. It could also double as captions.

This would have a big advantage over recording audio tracks in which you could change the narrative as it's just text.

ku1ik commented 11 months ago

Ooh, that's interesting idea. This would indeed handle audio in a similar fashion as we handle "video" - through minimal amount of information needed to synthesize the output. Nice!

Have you used TTS API "in anger"? Is it widely supported across browsers these days? I see the original post is from 2020 so I guess there's good chance it's already out there, at least in major browsers.

map7 commented 11 months ago

Yeah I was thinking about your problem whilst listening to you on changelog. I haven't used TTS but thought there would be something which could do text to speech and it would fit in with your project.

ku1ik commented 11 months ago

Got it. Thanks for the idea, I'll explore this for sure!

ku1ik commented 8 months ago

Moving to asciinema-player as this is mostly player related feature.