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by Dr4kn 711 days ago
For accessibility it is truly awesome. Yes it can be wrong and isn't perfect, but the alternative is having no knowledge of the image at all. Alt descriptions are often missing or not detailed enough to be useful for vision impaired.

Having much better text to voice could also be nice for the blind. While screen readers are fine I don't know how bothersome that robot voice is for longer texts.

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I'm okay with robot voices, tbh. The neural voices need modern hardware, and there is latency even then, together with some artifacts. Especially when speeding through a known screens I prefer responsiveness over fidelity or other nicities.