ken107 / read-aloud

An awesome browser extension that reads aloud webpage content with one click
https://readaloud.app
MIT License
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Increase speed/Reduce pauses when using Microsoft Natural Voices? #359

Open nhan000 opened 7 months ago

nhan000 commented 7 months ago

My favorite voice is Microsoft Jenny Online, because it's as good as the Google Studio voices but it's free.

I'm trying to find a way to make it read faster. I believe the max speed is limit by Microsoft (?) so I don't have much hope here.

However, I notice that the pause between paragraphs on the Edge mobile app (Android) is much shorter than the pause between paragraphs when using the Edge desktop version. Is there a way to adjust the pause between paragraphs for this plugin?

Koodo Reader also has Microsoft Natural Voices but it doesn't have any pauses when it reads a long paragraph. (Like it doesn't have to break the paragraph into chunks like stated here https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud/issues/358#issuecomment-1806732574). There's an online preview at https://reader.960960.xyz/ if don't want to install it. Open it with Edge to get the Microsoft Natural Voices. The TTS feature is on the right sidebar. image Thank you!