Speech stops after 22-25 works spoken

From james liu on the Talkie support page for this TTS voice tool in the Chrome Web Store:

What is the limit on number of words it can process When I tried it, it appears to have a limit of 22-25 words spoken before it stops.

Is there a commercial / unlimited version available?

This is an awesome product which has a serious limitation.

The issue seems to be related to known bugs (369472, 335907) in Chromium/Google Chrome.

One bug report indicates that speech stops after 43 single digit "words". Talkie tests shows it might be 33 of the same "words", and about twice as many characters if counting the spaces in between.
Others report that speech stops after after about 27 words/265 characters. My own tests show that it can stop after 26 words/176 characters.

The solution seems to be to split the text into smaller pieces, preferably as sentences or clauses. The maximum length per text spoken at once should also be defined.

I will implement, test, and publish a fix for this issue as soon as possible.

On a side note: there are no commercial/premium features (yet) -- but if you like Talkie and want to support further development, donate!

joelpurra / talkie

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