Introduction

react-text-to-speech is an easy-to-use React.js component that leverages the Web Speech API to convert text to speech.

Features

• Text-to-speech
• Easy to use
• Highlights words as they are read. See highlighting text using useSpeech Hook and Speech Component
• Provides API to handle errors and events. See Handling Errors and Events
• Handles multiple speech instances easily. See handling using useSpeech Hook and Speech Component
• Fully Customizable. See useSpeech Hook Usage and usage with FaC
• Stops speech instance on component unmount.

Installation

Install react-text-to-speech using:

npm

npm install react-text-to-speech --save

yarn

yarn add react-text-to-speech

pnpm

pnpm add react-text-to-speech

bun

bun add react-text-to-speech

Usage

react-text-to-speech offers two main ways to integrate text-to-speech functionality into your React.js applications.

• useSpeech hook
• <Speech> component