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Documenting best practices for implementing a read aloud feature in reading apps
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Microsoft Edge Multilingual Voices stop at any & character #8

Open Falcosc opened 3 weeks ago

Falcosc commented 3 weeks ago

I didn't find a bug ticket and I don't know how many characters are causing this issue.

You can reproduce it by using the English Emma (US) at https://hadriengardeur.github.io/web-speech-recommended-voices/demo/ and adding an & into the text.

Since I replace & with my language representation of this character as a workaround, I will not know when the bug will be fixed.

Maybe you will find an existing bug or raise a new one at Microsoft.

Falcosc commented 2 weeks ago

I don't know if it is an Edge problem or an Azure problem. But there is a way to test, if anybody has an Azure Studio account, here at the end of the blog post is a link to the playground https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-azure-ai-services-blog/introducing-more-multilingual-ai-voices-optimized-for/ba-p/4012832

I didn't find any bug reports for this issue. @HadrienGardeur are they already aware of it?

Falcosc commented 2 weeks ago

Found 2 more broken charackters "<" and ">"

Before making one commit for each character, I searched "all special characters" with Google and did paste the whole webpage in your demo. That was funny :D

HadrienGardeur commented 2 weeks ago

I didn't find any bug reports for this issue. @HadrienGardeur are they already aware of it?

It's fairly hard to find reported bugs reported to Microsoft and Apple. It's not as straightforward as Google and Mozilla where you can easily look for them in their tracker.

The goal of this project is to identify all bugs though, so it's good to have it here, thanks for filing it. I'm giving this one "major" in terms of severity since it can be worked around as long as you know about it.

I don't know if it is an Edge problem or an Azure problem.

Might be both since we're talking about online voices. As far as I'm aware, while some of the natural voices are now available offline and can be hacked into any browser using the Windows registry (you can test https://github.com/gexgd0419/NaturalVoiceSAPIAdapter), none of these multilingual voices are available offline yet.