SpeechSynthesisPlugin

W3C Web Speech API - Speech synthesis plugin for PhoneGap

Installation

Phone Gap

Using the command line tools run:

phonegap plugin add https://github.com/macdonst/SpeechSynthesisPlugin
cordova plugin add https://github.com/macdonst/SpeechSynthesisPlugin

Cordova

This plugin also works with the Apache Cordova toolset. See this Github project for an example for Android:

https://github.com/andysylvester/talk-to-me-cordova

More info on using this plugin with Cordova is available at this blog post.

Example Code

This code from the above Github project shows how to read the value of a text field, set up the plugin to speak that text, and vibrate the phone for 2 seconds:

 function playVibrate() {
    var u = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance();
    var x = document.getElementById("frm1");
    var txt = "";
    txt = x.elements[0].value
    u.text = txt;
    u.lang = 'en-US';
    speechSynthesis.speak(u);      
    navigator.notification.vibrate(2000);
    document.getElementById("frm1").reset();
  }