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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
Anyway, thanks a lot for the help. I don't think other voices are necessary at the moment; I guess the results will be the same, since you would use all of them with the same app, wouldn't you?
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I think the results would be similar with other voices in the same app as regards not using <img> or language attributes. I think different voices might sound better/worse with your ligature test.
Over the years I've found voices can differ in their ability to speak (or rather,
not speak) certain punctuation combinations. Being British many of my books use single-quotes, rather than US-style double-quotes, wrapped around speech. I think the double-quotes style is less likely to produce pronunciation errors (possibly because more testing is done by, and for, US companies???).
My Windows app can edit the open epub and you can assign its own version of voice-change tags where appropriate before speaking out loud or saving to mp3. If I owned a French/German or Italian voice (which I don't) I could demo it. However, this is hardly a solution for the casual book listener. The effort involved to insert those tags in a full book would be large.
I will try your corrected epub in some of my Android apps to see if there are better results there. I'm not hopeful on the language front, not least because I don't have any non-English voices there, either. I do have different flavours of English voices - British, US, Australian - that could be tested if your language tags can differentiate that way.