Graduated in Digital Media M.Sc. now developing the next generation of educational software. Since a while I develop full stack in Javascript using Meteor. Love fitness and Muay Thai after work.
Good introduction. The engine is great for making text based UIs more accessible. However, many technical and special terms are just not really understandable and it's worse in other languages than English.
I would love to see a follow-up article on creating or improving voices that can be used as custom voices.
Great article Phil! I have heard slight mispronunciations at times in certain languages, but overall I think its amazing and such an underused feature of the web!.
I would always expect some mispronunciation, given that it is a computer generated voice. I have a couple of roads around my house that Google Maps directions cannot pronounce (they're not even that hard) and that keeps me amused.
It is a cool, and surprisingly well supported, feature. Thanks!
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Good introduction. The engine is great for making text based UIs more accessible. However, many technical and special terms are just not really understandable and it's worse in other languages than English.
I would love to see a follow-up article on creating or improving voices that can be used as custom voices.
I'm intrigued, do you have examples of terms which are not understandable when read by a voice like this?
Great article Phil! I have heard slight mispronunciations at times in certain languages, but overall I think its amazing and such an underused feature of the web!.
I would always expect some mispronunciation, given that it is a computer generated voice. I have a couple of roads around my house that Google Maps directions cannot pronounce (they're not even that hard) and that keeps me amused.
It is a cool, and surprisingly well supported, feature. Thanks!