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Magnifier 'Read from here' intergration

Open afoolwithmagic opened this issue 2 months ago • 1 comments

Not so much an issue, but the natural voices do not show as options for the Magnifier accessibility tool for the 'Read from here' function. I prefer it much more than the Narrator's inbuilt navigation as it is a lot more easier to use. Currently using Windows 10.

afoolwithmagic avatar Oct 04 '25 03:10 afoolwithmagic

As far as I know, Magnifier requires OneCore voices, so any third-party SAPI5 voices, including this adapter, cannot work with Magnifier. Things that also require OneCore voices instead of SAPI5 ones include UWP apps, Chromium browsers, and Electron-based apps.

Unfortunately, OneCore voices are not as open as SAPI5 voices. There's Microsoft documentation about how to make third-party SAPI5 voices, which is what my work is based on, but there's no such thing for OneCore voices. So OneCore voices are probably Microsoft-exclusive. They even state this in the OneCore voice documentation:

Only Microsoft-signed voices installed on the system can be used to generate speech with a SpeechSynthesizer.

So we can only wait until Microsoft publish an open document about how to write third-party OneCore voices, or someone find a way to "hack" into the OneCore speech system.

gexgd0419 avatar Oct 31 '25 07:10 gexgd0419