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joelpurra / talkie

Text-to-speech browser extension button. Select text on any web page, and have the computer read it out loud for you by simply clicking the Talkie button.
https://joelpurra.com/projects/talkie/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Select and remove languages #18

Open clin366 opened 3 years ago

clin366 commented 3 years ago

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In order to have an accurate speech, is it possible to add function to remove languages from the voices list?

Actual behavior

Cannot remove languages.

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joelpurra commented 3 years ago

@clin366: I am not sure how removing a language makes speech more accurate. While the language detection in Talkie checks which voices are installed before "using" a language, I don't think having fewer languages improves anything.

You should also be able to disable/remove most voices/languages in your operating system, which would also remove them from Talkie. (Restart computer after in case it doesn't.)

joelpurra commented 10 months ago

@clin366: there is a similar request in #26, which uses slightly different wording with regards to the automatic voice selection. I am not sure I would "remove" voices completely, but perhaps there is a way to allow/disallow certain voice. It may also affect how preferred voices are configured.