can Bing Text-to-Speech take a javascript variable value and convert it to speech?

Question

I am using Bing text to speech api in javascript and generating random numbers for addition. Just for support I wanted to integrate bing text-to-speech to my code but I am not able to find a documentation on microsoft page which says that you can pass dynamic parameter to api. By far it is able to to this:

var bingClientTTS = newBingSpeech.TTSClient("API KEY");
document.getElementById("speakBtn").addEventListener("click", function () {
bingClientTTS.synthesize("5 + 7");
});

But when I do this it gives Type error:

var randomNum1 = getRandom(),
var randomNum2 = getRandom();
total =randomNum1 + randomNum2;
$( "#question" ).text( randomNum1 + " + " + randomNum2 + "=" );  
document.getElementById("speakBtn").addEventListener("click", function () {
bingClientTTS.synthesize(randomNum1.value);
});

TypeError: Cannot read property 'encodeHTML' of undefined

Is there any way to pass variable to bing tts api or should I use google tts.

To avoid api calls I have used a javascript client librarygithub link

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 09 '18 at 19:19

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If it works with a string, it does not matter how you obtain that string.

Try randomNum1 instead of randomNum1.value.

answered Mar 09 '18 at 19:19

Ravenous

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What's inside `randomNum1`? Can you console.log that? – Ravenous Mar 09 '18 at 19:22
If `syntesize("x")` works, there is absolutely no reason it wouldn't work with a string stored in a JavaScript variable. Whatever you send to BingClient is static, the way you reach what you send to BingClient is dynamic. – Ravenous Mar 09 '18 at 19:30
Try `randomNum1.toString()`, you are doing Math with it, so I think it's an integer. – Ravenous Mar 09 '18 at 19:30
I tried using integers on their website it works fine – Raghav Patnecha Mar 09 '18 at 19:34
`toString` worked fine. Only thing is whats written on screen and what it speaks are both different numbers – Raghav Patnecha Mar 09 '18 at 19:41
That's a problem in your logic and not related to BingClient. – Ravenous Mar 10 '18 at 11:13

can Bing Text-to-Speech take a javascript variable value and convert it to speech?

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