Jan-Lukas Else

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πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Dev: 2020-03

Welcome to the Dev section of my blog with development related articles.


How I use the Speech Synthesis API on my blog

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I just added the feature to my blog that allows you to have any article read to you. For some articles I already add an MP3 file with a natural sounding pronunciation, but now it is also possible to get articles read aloud that don’t have an MP3 file (if the browser and operating system support this).

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Find broken links on your website with muffet

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Today I wanted to check if my blog contains some broken links and it actually did. I used the Go-based tool muffet which crawls a website and checks for HTTP errors when following links. To speed up the process, I started a local Hugo server and used the following command for muffet (after installing it):

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Using the Google Text-to-Speech API to create audio versions for blog posts

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AshwΓ­αΉ… VΓ­shnΓΊ asked how I created the audio version for my latest post. Here’s a way how you can use the Google Text-to-Speech API to create MP3s from text. A simple way to try this API without a Google Cloud account is to follow these steps:

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