Kalita a is text-to-speech software with a special focus on data minimization and user privacy. We do not collect any personal data, do not set tracking cookies and do not outsource our service to third-party cloud solutions. The speech synthesis takes place on-premises on your own server and still offers many of the conveniences of a conventional readspeaker.
- kalita-server is a server written in Python that provides the speech synthesis.
- kalita-js is a JavaScript client for integration into a website that provides a graphical user interface.
Before you can embed Kalita into your website, you need to build the software. For this you will need Node.js and npm.
- Clone the repository.
git clone https://github.com/azmke/kalita-js- Replace
YOUR_KALITA_SERVERwith the URL of your Kalita server in theconfig.jsonfile.
{
"url": "YOUR_KALITA_SERVER"
}- Install the required modules.
npm run install- Build the source code.
npm run buildIf the build was successful, you will find the files bundle.min.js and style.min.css among other files in the folder /build. Place these two files on your web server. Afterwards you can include them in your HTML page as follows:
Copy-paste the stylesheet <link> into your <head> before all other stylesheets to load our CSS:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.min.css">Add the following <div> element to a position on your page where the graphical interface should be displayed:
<div id="kalita-player"></div>Our components require the use of JavaScript to function. Place the following <script> near the end of your pages, right before the closing </body> tag, to enable them:
<script src="bundle.min.js"></script>