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by garkin 2270 days ago
I personally use Edge almost daily for their awesome in-browser TTS and reading-mode feature. I inspire you to try it.

For general purpose Google account integration convinience grip is yet overweights their constant effort to ruin UI and extensions. Also Edge App Store still lacks uMatrix, but already has uBlock Origin.
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catalogia 2270 days ago
> I personally use Edge almost daily for their awesome in-browser TTS and reading-mode feature. I inspire you to try it.

Why should I use Edge for that, instead of Firefox (which also has TTS in its reader-mode)?

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garkin 2270 days ago
I just tested it. They use built-in Microsoft Sam as TTS (at least in Windows), old and awfull.

TTS in the Edge is pretty close to the bleeding edge. It's good. Both English and Russian. And Edge is still a gorgeus Chromium without recent time UI degradations and without ad- and privacy- blocker intolerant management.

Personally i have a prejudice against Firefox for subjectively poor and ugly UI and old scars from their rendering issues.

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catalogia 2269 days ago
Well you'd not catch me dead using Windows to be frank. MacOS has the best offline TTS available to consumers right now, so that's what I use for TTS.
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