A text-to-speech button

[scuba-steve]

Hello,

I was unsure where to post this on the forum:

I am in final year at university and for my major project, I am creating a medical website for sufferers of a condition. I want to have a button so when the user presses it, I want the text to be read out to them. So inside the <p> </p> element, there would be text I want it read out when the button is pressed.

I have searched for jquery plugins for this, and I found jTalk (http://www.jtalkplugin.com/) but I can not get the files needed as they guy won't email me back.

Has anyone any ideas on how I can do this? I have looked at Google TTS API, but I don't think there is any capability for this yet.

Any help appreciated!

Stephen

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Scripts will not work properly depending on the users Operating Systems if it relies on the client sides text to speech.

I believe the best way to do this is just have audio files instead. Text to speech is to choppy and someone actually reading the text out loud on a playable file sounds much better.

Google Search results: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&&sa=X&ei=B6zNTLXdFYj0tgPXg4zqBw&ved=0CBcQvwUoAQ&q=javascript+text+to+speech&spell=1&fp=2304850557947867