Error: Cannot find module 'tls'

[yuripourre]

Hello, I am following the steps in the documentation.

I am trying to add PlayHT to a project using next.js and webpack 5 but I am getting this error when I tried to call the listVoices method.

I get this error:

Error: Cannot find module 'tls'
...
 ⚠ ./node_modules/playht/dist/esm/index.js
Critical dependency: require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted

I tried this config but it didn't work:

const nextConfig = {
    webpack: (config) => {
        config.resolve.fallback = { tls: false };
        return config;
    },
};
export default nextConfig;

Do you guys have any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Edit:

I just found this link from someone with the same problem
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77830195/playht-integration-with-nextjs

[ttanida]

I have the same problem.
The playHT node sdk doesn't seem to work with next.js.

Other people have the same problem, see: #32 (comment)

I have tried a lot of different things, but nothing has worked so far.

I am looking into elevenlabs API now, since they also seem to support input text and output audio streaming.

[yuripourre]

@ttanida I end up implementing all the calls using axios. I could successfully get the list of voices (V1) but apparently the text to speech endpoint doesn't work with a free account anymore.

As per: https://docs.play.ht/discuss/65e4b810845339000fd46959

It's frustrating because I would like to test it before paying for it.

[ttanida]

@yuripourre, you could try the Hacker plan, I think it is a reasonable price for trying out the API (https://play.ht/pricing/).

The problem with using axios for me is that, if I see correctly, I can't do input text streaming that way (only output audio streaming), since I have to send the whole text in the call. So I could just use the openAI TTS API instead, which also supports audio streaming (and I found the openAI voices to be better than playht).

Also, there is a 25 RPM rate limit on the API endpoint, which would be too low for my use case.

[srelbo]

@AbdelhamidGamal Can you please take a look at this one? Thanks!

[yuripourre]

The problem with using axios for me is that, if I see correctly, I can't do input text streaming that way (only output audio streaming).

That's right, it doesn't support stream. But for my use case is good enough.

[OrkhanGG]

Solved:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77830195/playht-integration-with-nextjs/78667405#78667405