Laravel AI SDK: Add Text-to-Speech and Voice to Your App in 20 Minutes

Originally published at hafiz.dev Taylor Otwell dropped a one-liner on X yesterday that stopped me mid-scroll: $audio = Str::of('Hello, Laravel')->toAudio(); That's it. One method call and your string becomes audio. No external SDK wiring, no Guzzle calls, no API response parsing. Just ->toAudio() on a Stringable, the same way you'd call ->upper() or ->slug(). If you've been following the Laravel AI SDK through Part 1 (building a smart assistant) and Part 2 (RAG-powere...