Build a Text to Speech Converter using HTML, CSS & Javascript

A text-to-speech converter is an application that is used to convert the text content entered by the user into speech with a click of a button. A text-to-speech converter should have a text area at the top so that the user can enter a long text to be converted into speech, followed by a button that converts the entered text into speech and plays the sound on click to it.

Here, we will build a fully responsive text-to-speech converter using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

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Step-by-Step guide to build a Text to Speech Convertor

• Create a folder with the project name and create the required HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files as shown in the project structure.
• Now, use the HTML tags like textarea, button, div, head, body etc. to define the structure of the website.
• Add the styles to the HTML tags used to define the structure by selecting them with the help of given IDs and Classes.
• Utilise the speechSynthesis API of the global window object and the SpeechSynthesisUtterance to create a utteraance of the entered text.
• Next, use the speak() method of the speechSynthesis API to speak or play the created utterance as a speech.
• Handle the errors efficiently if user have not provided any text to convert.

Example: The below example will help you to understand the process of creating an text-to-speech converter using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Output

Note: You will not able to hear the voice as it is an gif so kindly run this project locally on any Online IDE(Replit, etc.)