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by doomrobo 1375 days ago
Good question. The short answer is that the UX of doing it with local TTS is pretty terrible. The voices will of course vary from device to device. But more importantly, control from the lockscreen doesn't work anymore (I've found you can't really use the web TTS API in a way that plays well with the MediaSession API, the position-resuming functionality, etc)