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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

Hi! My name is Abel González Vidal. I live in the Madrid area, Spain, and I work as a platform engineering lead at Nextail. This blog is a learning tool, a way to process ideas for myself. These are working notes. My CV is available in LinkedIn, for context. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle Read more...