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Frontend for the zeeguu web application.
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Switching all speech to the goog api #298

Closed mircealungu closed 6 months ago

mircealungu commented 6 months ago

asking for your review @tfnribeiro

mircealungu commented 6 months ago

Indeed, we need to specify the voice we like for every one of our supported languages!

However, there's now a fallback: if there's no preferred language that we specify, then we fallback on the Standard-A which seems to exist for most of the languages: https://github.com/zeeguu/api/blob/36f663e3095946f44cc2e3ab7e6a954bdb389636/zeeguu/api/endpoints/speech.py#L25. Although it sounds quite bad so we should select defaults for all the languages we care about.

Which brings me to, we still need a voice for Portuguese: do you want to choose one that you like? You can choose from here: https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices

The language to voices mapping is here: https://github.com/zeeguu/api/blob/36f663e3095946f44cc2e3ab7e6a954bdb389636/zeeguu/api/endpoints/speech.py#L12

tfnribeiro commented 6 months ago

That's a good strategy, I had a look at the list yesterday and it seems there are various models to choose from.

I think regarding Portuguese, pt-PT-Wavenet-A sounds good. I have heard that voice a lot in applications, so I know where it comes from!

I think a good feature in the future would be to add a "Speak Slowly", which we could do by playing back at 0.75.

mircealungu commented 6 months ago

Speak slowly feature is a good idea. I'll merge for now this version of the web, and we can still add and change voices on the backend later.