(Updated 2022-04-11 20:27:14 +0000: New audio files added for Happy New Year, Happy Mother’s Day, Ramadan Kareem and Happy Diwali)

Hi again!

We are excited to announce that we have implemented IBM’s Watson Text-To-Speech into SkyWrite!

When you look up to view the messages in the sky, the text-to-speech audio is played. There is a toggle to turn this on and off. This has been implemented by having the audio files bundled with the app, so there is no delay when the user wants to view the messages in their postcode. This is currently the most efficient way given how few audio files we have, but if there were more - we may consider on downloading the audio files at runtime.

We currently use the Lisa V3 voice to say the messages out loud, but we are considering on implementing different voices and languages, but this is an optional feature for if we have time to implement it.

If you are interested on using Watson Text-To-Speech yourself, read more here: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/text-to-speech?topic=text-to-speech-gettingStarted

Listen to the audio files here:

Message Audio file
Happy Birthday
Merry Christmas
Congratulations
Good luck
Get well soon
Thank you
Happy New Year
Happy Mother's Day
Ramadan Kareem
Happy Diwali