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Originally Posted by jackie_w
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.
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Yes, I know about the effort, because I've inserted about 3000 language tags in the book I'm working on. Had I known that they probably won't work... Well, I'll consider it an investment in future progress. What I hadn't thought of at all is the fact that a different language means a different voice, so even if the tags worked, you would always have a switch between voices. That can't be too pleasant an experience either...
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Originally Posted by jackie_w
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.
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I'm uploading a new test file, with the document language set to en-GB, and two short passages in the very first chapter tagged en-US and en-AU, respectively;
perhaps that
might work...
tts-test-epub3-v2.epub