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Re:Show HN: Client side, shareable, text2speech messages by binarymax on Friday June 01, 2012 @11:06AM (#4053775)
Left the tab open - nice little easter egg you have there :)

window.setTimeout(function(){return i("i love you")},9E5);

Re:Show HN: Client side, shareable, text2speech messages by lecha on Friday June 01, 2012 @12:17PM (#4054225)
feature request: make it usable via a URL http://lalo.li/?text=hello should playback "hello"
Re:Show HN: Client side, shareable, text2speech messages by franze on Friday June 01, 2012 @12:50PM (#4054386)
on my internal to-do list
Re:Show HN: Client side, shareable, text2speech messages by samirahmed on Friday June 01, 2012 @11:00AM (#4053727)
very cool!

but it spams my webhistory with every keystroke i think, renders my back button useless.

Re:Show HN: Client side, shareable, text2speech messages by franze on Friday June 01, 2012 @11:03AM (#4053752)
you are right

  history.replaceState()
would be a better choice than the

  history.pushState()
i'm using. livecoding right now.

[Update: fixed (and deployed)]

Re:Show HN: Client side, shareable, text2speech messages by albertzeyer on Friday June 01, 2012 @11:30AM (#4053941)
There isn't really so much functionality added over the grounded work http://syntensity.com/static/espeak.html , is there? (Except some nicer web interface.)
Re:Show HN: Client side, shareable, text2speech messages by franze on Friday June 01, 2012 @11:38AM (#4053996)
it is standing on the shoulders of giants (that would be kripkens (the emscripten guy) shoulders).

difference: shareability, interface, entertainment value

Re:Show HN: Client side, shareable, text2speech messages by jeremyarussell on Friday June 01, 2012 @11:51AM (#4054073)
I've been having too much fun with this at work already, and It's been open for 3 minutes. I gotta say I do very much enjoy the simple and straightforward interface.
Re:Show HN: Client side, shareable, text2speech messages by madethemcry on Friday June 01, 2012 @11:08AM (#4053791)
sweet :) window.setTimeout((()->saySo('i love you')),10006015)
Re:Show HN: Client side, shareable, text2speech messages by impostervt on Friday June 01, 2012 @10:42AM (#4053591)
How?
Re:Show HN: Client side, shareable, text2speech messages by franze on Friday June 01, 2012 @10:47AM (#4053625)
see the github Readme.md https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/lalo.li

  >ok, how does this work
  >
  >the speak functionality is thx to kripkens awesome emscripten compiled 
  >speak.js
  >the knobs thx to the awesome knob jquery lib
  >the cient side data in hash URLs was inspired by shortly - serverless 
  >pastebin service
  >oh, and lalo.li is hosted on github pages