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Alistair Jenkins 92 posts 315 karma points

Jun 08, 2018 @ 11:39

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Implementing Talkify in Umbraco

Hi,

Has anyone tried using the Javascript Text to speech library Talkify to create a button that allows visitors to read the current page out loud? Had a look at the Github page but as I'm not too familiar with Javascript yet I'm not sure how to install / implement it in Umbraco. My site is on Azure and I'm using Visual Studio to develop it locally so I can't use NPM or Bower to install.

Any pointers gratefully received.

Regards, Alistair

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Alex Skrypnyk 6175 posts 24186 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Jun 19, 2018 @ 14:30

Hi AListar

Just add script to your master view:

<script src="talkify.min.js"></script>

Add configuration code like in documentation:

talkify.config = {
    remoteService: {
        host : 'https://talkify.net',
        apiKey = 'your-api-key',
        active: true //True to use Talkifys language engine and hosted voices. False only works for Html5Player.
    },
    ui:
    {
        audioControls: { //If enabled, replaces the built in audio controls. Especially good for the Web Speech API bits
            enabled: false,
            container: document.body
        }
    }
}

Write some code that uses a player:

var player = new talkify.TtsPlayer().enableTextHighlighting();

    new talkify.playlist()
        .begin()
        .usingPlayer(player)
        .withTextInteraction()
        .withElements(document.querySelectorAll('p')) //<--Any element you'd like. Leave blank to let Talkify make a good guess
        .build() //<-- Returns an instance.
        .play();

Thanks,

Alex

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Alistair Jenkins 92 posts 315 karma points

Jun 21, 2018 @ 15:42

Hi Alex,

Yes, that's what is in their documentation and I tried that initially but the config section threw errors when I tried to use it. After looking at the jsfiddle code that the documentation has a link to, and emailing Talkify themselves, I ended up with the following working code:

<script type="text/javascript">

    talkify.config.remoteService.host = 'https://talkify.net';
    talkify.config.remoteService.apiKey = 'my-key';


    talkify.config.ui.audioControls = {
      enabled: false, //<-- Disable to get the browser built in audio controls
      container: document.getElementById("player-and-voices")
    };

    document.getElementById("talkifyButton").onclick = function () {
        var player = new talkify.TtsPlayer();

        new talkify.playlist()
            .begin()
            .usingPlayer(player)
            .withTextInteraction()
            .withElements(document.querySelectorAll(".readMe")) //<--Any element you'd like. Leave blank to let Talkify make a good guess
            .withRootSelector('body')
            .build() //<-- Returns an instance.
            .play();
    }
</script>

I took out the text highlighting because that stripped out the styling from whichever piece of text was being read. So that I could decide exactly which bits of the page to read I added a .readMe class to the relevant elements and used that in the withElements parameter.

Hope that's useful to anyone else trying to do this.

Cheers, Alistair

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mee 1 post 71 karma points

Aug 02, 2019 @ 07:27

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Hi Alistair

Yeah I had that problem two. Can you tell me how you setup the hole HTML? Thanks

Best

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