Building a Voice-Enabled React UI with ElevenLabs Text-to-Speech
A DEV Community tutorial explains how to add voice features to web interfaces, arguing that text-to-speech improves accessibility, multitasking, and engagement. The author compared Google Cloud TTS, Amazon Polly, Microsoft Azure Speech, and ElevenLabs, finding ElevenLabs more natural, faster, and easier to integrate. The guide walks through scaffolding a React and TypeScript app with Vite, installing helper libraries like axios and Material UI, and storing an ElevenLabs API key in an environment file. It then provides a sample component that sends user text to ElevenLabs, plays back the returned audio, and shows a loading state. The article also advises routing API calls through a backend proxy in production to avoid exposing keys.
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