Open Source Plugins / Extensions

Gspeech – Text to Audio plugin

Posted on July 14, 2015 Updated on July 21, 2015

Overview of Plugin

Gspeach pluging allows to listen any text from the site.
It would be wonderful experience for users, if visitors could listen any selected text from site? The plugin has made that possible. Author use Google power to provide you the best quality of automatic text to speech service. Web development companies can use this plugin in the projects where text to speech or audio is required.
Key statistics

• 40 speaker types, new effects.
• Over 13,400+ sites using GSpeech!

Author : Creative Solutions

Releases Date : 05 April ,2012

Few of the Key Features :

• It allows to listen ant text from the site
• You can listen to the selected text
• Flexible auto-play feature
• Feature to set greeting audio for your users anytime
• It supports 58 language

http://creative-solutions.net/joomla/gspeech/documentation

Description

What does this plugin do?

• Site Language -Your site’s native language
• Speak any text- if set to yes, Speaker will appear any time user selected any text from the content of your site. So users will be able to listen any selected text.
• Greeting text to speech – Your site greating audio. When users open your website, they will listen this text. Write blank if you do not need this. Use SITENAME to get your sitename, USERNAME to get user name, REALNAME to get user real name. For writing structure read the examples below.

Plugins Style Options:

• Background Color Passive- Text to Speech block background color when it is not active.
• Text Color Passive- Text to Speech block text color when it is not active.
• Background Color Active- Text to Speech block background color when user hover the speaker, or click on it.
• Text Color Active- Text to Speech block text color when user hover the speaker, or click on it.
• Speaker Opacity Passive- Speaker opacity when it is not active.
• Speaker Opacity Active- Speaker opacity when it is active.
• Animation Time – Animation time between passive and active states (in milliseconds).
• Auto – Play
• You can set autoplay and speech time out for each text to speech block
  {gspeech autoplay=1 speechtimeout=0}Custom text to speech{/gspeech}
• auto-play- possible values: 0 or 1.
• speech timeout- speech timeout(set in milliseconds. write 1000 to get 1 second timeout).

Gspeech will only work correctly if your setup meets these requirements.

• Joomla! 2.5.5 or higher.
• PHP 5.3+
• MySQL 5+
• cURL Library enabled
• Important: They can only provide support for setups that meet the above requirements.
• do not have extension files or Joomla! core files which have been altered in any way.

http://creative-solutions.net/joomla/gspeech/documentation
Snapshot of Plugin

Advantage

•  It allows to listen any text from the site
•  Feature to show speaker, when user highlights text
• Auto play Feature in the plugin
• 58 languages supported by Google
• Set greeting audio for your users
•  It has ability to set custom events
• Unlimited text to speech feature
• One can place speaker wherever he wants
•  It has ability to set custom style and language for each audio block, by using following proper structure
•  Customization audio block styles
• 40 speaker types are supported
• User can customize TTS block styles.
• User can customize tool tip styles!
• It has cross browser support

Disadvantages

• This extension requires Joomla 2.5.5 or higher.
• PHP Curl library is required.

http://extensions.joomla.org/extension/contacts-and-feedback/greetings/gspeech?com_jed_review_3279_limitstart=10

Web development companies can use this plugin for the projects where customer requests text to speech or audio feature in the website.