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TTS synthetic speech readout, word-level highlighting within sentence-level utterance

Open danielweck opened this issue 11 years ago • 1 comments

The Media Overlays playback engine already implements a similar approach, but HTML Speech API struggles to find the correct word boundaries unfortunately (erratic highlighting).

This feature request is independent from MO though (speech readout of text-only ebooks).

danielweck avatar Jul 29 '14 14:07 danielweck

Benetech Bookshare open-source code: https://github.com/benetech/readium/blob/0.5.0-bookshare/scripts/utils/benespeak.js#L110 (chrome.tts.speak API, not cross-platform HTML5 Speech API)

danielweck avatar Jun 07 '16 17:06 danielweck