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by AYBABTME 1761 days ago
And yet apps that leverage this are quasi absent. The Firefox screen reader widget is good but the voices are limited and the functionality limited to well formatted pages. E-book software seems to not integrate this tech either.
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I wouldn't use something like that myself. I use NVDA full time. If you actually need a screen reader, you probably want something more advance than a browser widget. https://www.nvaccess.org/
I don't _need_ screen readers in so far as I can still read with my eyes, but I can read content quite a lot faster with it, and finish reading stuff I otherwise wouldn't, using spoken text instead.
My hacker news client HACK has both reader mode for articles as well as read text to speech for articles and comments. It's brand new so feedback is welcome:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...