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Making Obsidian Talk with Google's Fancy Wavenet Voices

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): Read more...

About Me

Hy! My name is Abel González Vidal. I work as a platform engineer lead at Nextail. My CV is available in Linkedin. If you are curious about my personality, these are my results in OCEAN model: Openness: 76th percentile Conscientiousness: 66th percentile Extraversion: 18th percentile Agreeableness: 59th percentile Neuroticism: 61st percentile “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle Read more...