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by selfhoster11 1375 days ago
Browser TTS on Linux is really terrible, for one
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mbreese 1375 days ago
What about Android?

We're really talking about iOS and Android here, if I grok the use-case.

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doomrobo 1375 days ago
Try it out here https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/web-speech-api/speak-easy...

It's god awful on iOS

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obviyus 1375 days ago
Some of those are nightmare inducing.
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selfhoster11 1374 days ago
Android is not really Linux here. It normally includes the proprietary TTS engine from Google, which is quite decent. Even offline, it’s many times better than what Firefox on Linux comes with.
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