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For more information, see Speech synthesis on Wikipedia.
The Text to Speech Extension is an extension that allows projects which use it to output synthesized speech. The service is provided by Amazon Web Services. It was added in Scratch 3.0. There are three stack blocks in this extension.
Voices
There are five types of voices that can be selected with the Set Voice to () block:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| alto | standard female voice |
| tenor | standard male voice, deep female voice[a] |
| squeak | high-pitched female voice |
| giant | deep male voice, very deep female voice[a] |
| kitten | repeatedly says "meow" but sometimes at a different length |
Notes:
Supported Languages
This extension allows the language of the voice to be changed, but there are not as many languages as the Translate Extension. When the block was first released in Scratch 3.0, only 14 languages were available.
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Icelandic
- Italian
- Japanese
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazilian)
- Portuguese (European)
- Russian
- Spanish (European)
- Spanish (Latin American)
On March 21st, 2019, 7 additional languages were added[1].
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- Korean
- Norwegian
- Romanian
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Welsh
On April 4th, 2019, a single new language was added (Hindi)[2], and on April 25th, 2019, another language was added (Arabic)[3].
Blocks
There are currently three stack blocks in the Text to Speech Extension:
