Make Text to Speech Action more visible/accessible

[latenitefilms]

Knut Hake writes:

Hey Chris, hope you are doing great! Any chance you could make that Text to speech functionality hidden in CP more accesible?

It’s such a great feature and I always have to remind me how to find it because it is hidden away.

Kenny Park writes:

Agreed: it's so good, but I got a bit lost trying to find it at first. Didn't realise the Search Console was contextual. Now I've memorised the shortcut for the console, and have favourited Text to Speech so it's always ⌘ 1, it's a quick one-two to use it. I'd not have found it without asking here.
I basically wrote all the VO on my last couple of silly gaming videos as I edited, straight into the timeline, using captions to write the text. It avoided adding my self-conscious read into the process, which can be a creativity-killer. Then, when I was happy, I just turned off that role, started Voice Over rolling, and read the subtitles off the screen as they appeared.
So it's a game-changing feature, imo, but not easy to find unless someone talks you through it.

[florian-duffe]

I want to second and third that.
It's so fast and useful when needed - but I always have to look up my own commentary from 2 years ago to see how it works. Right-clicking onto the lower command line isn't intuitive at all. I wished all options would be visible. Now you have to right-click and scroll through the context menu to see what your preferences have been earlier. (De-)selecting one option throws you out of the context menu.
If I could draw my long-time-supporter-joker with this, I would do it!
Maybe Toolbox? Maybe stand-alone? Maybe later on to combine with other voice-generators? Though, I really like the simplicity and speed and that my content stays private and doesn't leave the workstation at all.