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ken107 / read-aloud

An awesome browser extension that reads aloud webpage content with one click
https://readaloud.app
MIT License
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Native voices on MacOS need to show the language #319

Closed ken107 closed 8 months ago

ken107 commented 1 year ago

Also it speaks too fast by default, can we slow it down by default? how to know it is MacOS native voice?

vamuscari commented 1 year ago

Hey! so I was having a similar issue and came here to look into it.

Rate

This seems to be an issue between chromium and mac OS. If I go to mozilla on both chrome and safari, then play the example. Safari plays back at a slower(probably correct) rate where chrome plays back super fast.

Native voice

My guess for knowing the native voice would be to first know if the device is on a mac. Then from the list of voices check for localService. I believe these voice are a direct reflection of the system voice. Zoe(premium) will show up if downloaded but I don't see any version of siri.

ken107 commented 1 year ago

Thank you for the info!