jQuery Plugin Roundup 7: truncate, Text-to-Speech
Welcome to the jQuery Plugin Roundup, episode 7. Remember you can send your plugins in for review through our contact form or @dailyjs.
jquery-text-truncate
jquery-text-truncate truncates text based on the rendered width rather than character count. Usage looks like this:
$("#element").textTruncate();
The element’s parent block is used as the source for the maximum width. This can be changed by passing a width option.
jQuery Text-to-Speech
jQuery Text-to-Speech by Kevin Hoang Le is a new plugin that converts text to speech using Google Translate’s audio rendering API, and a bundled Flash file to play the audio.
It’s easy to use:
var jtts = $('#jtts');
jtts.jtts({
elem: '#embedPlayer',
jPlayer: {
customCssIds: true,
swfPath: '/media/swf/'
}
});
jtts.play(['Welcome to DailyJS']).bind('onComplete', function() {
// Called after the audio has been played
});
For a live demo, the author has created Voice-enabled Weather and Traffic Report. His blog post has more details.
