Edge install undermines Microsoft’s argument that automatic updates are critical

Re:Edge install undermines Microsoft’s argument that automat... by blackrock on Thursday July 02, 2020 @07:04PM (#23719090)

The text-to-speech on Edge is fantastic!

Select any text, and speak it. Jump anywhere in the page. Works on both, regular web pages, and PDFs too.

It works even better than what’s on the iPad Safari. And Chrome doesn’t have any working feature like this.

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Re:Edge install undermines Microsoft’s argument that automat... by evan_ on Thursday July 02, 2020 @07:11PM (#23719133)

I'm using Chrome on OS X right now. I can highlight text and select "Speech -> Start Speaking" and it reads whatever I highlight. It also works fine on a random PDF file I found.

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Re:Edge install undermines Microsoft’s argument that automat... by arm on Thursday July 02, 2020 @07:28PM (#23719249)

I believe that’s a system-wide macOS feature whenever you select text in any program.

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Re:Edge install undermines Microsoft’s argument that automat... by adiabatty on Friday July 03, 2020 @02:45AM (#23721627)

It is. Neither Discord nor Visual Studio Code have this feature surfaced, but they're both Electron apps that probably (accidentally) bury it.

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