Making Obsidian Talk with Google's Fancy Wavenet Voices

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 20:03:54 +0100

I’m sharing a little hack I put together. As a hardcore Obsidian user, I was getting frustrated with the available text-to-speech options. I really wanted to use Google’s Wavenet voices because they sound amazing, but couldn’t find a plugin that did exactly what I wanted. So I sorted it out myself.

I cobbled together a hack using Google Cloud’s Text-to-Speech API and Obsidian’s Shell Commands plugin. Here’s how you can do it too (assuming you’re on Linux, if not you need some adjustment):

Google on Abel G. Vidal

Making Obsidian Talk with Google's Fancy Wavenet Voices