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Re:Show HN: ReadToMyShoe – An offline-first web app for list... by selfhoster11 on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @06:49AM (#32835389)
Browser TTS on Linux is really terrible, for one
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Re:Show HN: ReadToMyShoe – An offline-first web app for list... by mbreese on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @07:36AM (#32835745)
What about Android?

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

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Re:Show HN: ReadToMyShoe – An offline-first web app for list... by doomrobo on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @09:47AM (#32837123)
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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Re:Show HN: ReadToMyShoe – An offline-first web app for list... by obviyus on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @11:59AM (#32839043)
Some of those are nightmare inducing.
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Re:Show HN: ReadToMyShoe – An offline-first web app for list... by selfhoster11 on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @10:29PM (#32846279)
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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