PopClip Azure Text To Speech

A PopClip extension to speak selected text with Azure TTS.

Installation

1. Go to azure_tts.sh
2. Select all the code, if you select with Command + A you need to use the customized keyboard shortcut you've set to call PopClip.
3. Click Install Extension "Azure TTS"
4. Input the options, then click OK.

Fill in the options

1. To get the Azure Region and Azure Subscription Key, you need to create an Azure account. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/
2. Then go to https://portal.azure.com/#home
3. Click Create a resource
4. Search for Speech, check Azure services only, ensure the result belongs to Microsoft Azure Service
5. Click it, then click Create and following the steps in that page.
   • NOTE: Recommend choosing Free(F0) for Pricing Tier. The limitation is 0.5 million characters free per month, it should be enough for using this extension.
6. Go to https://portal.azure.com/#home, click the app you created, you'll see the Azure Region and Azure Subscription Key.

You can find the other value of options here.

• Region
• OutputFormat
• Language and Voice
• Voice styles and roles(Not support yet)

Features

After installing, select the text below and click the speak with wave icon.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

You can compare with the say command, by running it in Terminal.

say "Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day."

You can click the loading icon to stop while speaking.

LICENSE

AGPL-3.0