Highlight and speak text from your Obsidian notes. Converts text to audio using lifelike voices from various providers.
tts-interaction-audio.mp4
Just add your API key from a supported provider. Choose from available voices.
- OpenAI: (e.g.,
tts-1,tts-1-hd,gpt-4o-mini). OpenAI charges Audio at $0.015 per 1,000 characters. - Google Gemini: (Gemini 2.5 series)
- Hume AI: (Hume voices with customization)
- ElevenLabs: (Model selection, voice selection, stability/similarity options)
- Azure Speech Services: (Region, voice and output format selection)
- MiniMax: (speech-2.5-hd-preview, speech-2.5-turbo-preview, speech-02-hd, speech-02-turbo, speech-01-hd, speech-01-turbo)
- AWS Polly: (Region, voice, neural/standard engine, output format)
You can also configure a custom API endpoint if you have an OpenAI compatible API server that has an /v1/audio/speech endpoint. For example openedai-speech.
Visual Feedback: Active sentence is highlighted and updated as playback progresses.
Listen immediately: Audio is streamed sentence-by-sentence. Jump back and forth by skipping by sentence.
Variable Speeds: On device playback rate adjustor for improved audio quality.
Caching: Audio is cached in your vault to reduce costs, and automatically removed. Cache duration is configurable. Audio may be cached device local or in a vault directory.
Export and Embed Audio: Quickly export to audio files: export audio files from selection, or embed audio by pasting text from your clipboard.
Play text from anywhere: Lots of commands. Play text to speech directly from your clipboard.
OS Integration: Integrates with your mobile phone to play while locked. Pause/Play with OS controls on desktop.
You can also run alternate models if you have an OpenAI‑compatible API server that exposes /v1/audio/speech (for example, openedai-speech). Configure the URL and API key in the plugin settings under “OpenAI Compatible (Advanced)”.