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HadrienGardeur / web-speech-recommended-voices

A list of recommended voices for the Web Speech API
https://panac.github.io/readium-speech/demo/
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Chrome Desktop should provide the same online voice selection than Chrome OS #21

Open HadrienGardeur opened 4 months ago

HadrienGardeur commented 4 months ago

This is more of a feature request than a bug, unlike the other items usually found on this tracker currently.

Chrome OS seems to provide support for 70+ languages, through its support of Android voices. Most (all?) of them seem to have an online variant, which could easily be supported in Chrome desktop.

This would be a vast improvements compared to the 15 languages currently supported in Chrome desktop. In addition to supporting a wider selection of languages, this would also provide multiple options for most of them as well.

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HadrienGardeur commented 4 months ago

I'm tagging this one as major as it would be a game changer for Chrome desktop in terms of language support, something that implementers of a read aloud feature cannot easily work around without relying on third party supported voices that are not available through the WebSpeech API.