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Old 05-03-2018, 04:25 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
Gitden Reader v4.5.3, Android (using Google TTS):
  • It crashed when trying TTS on the SVG pages
  • It did speak the æ + œ ligatures (and pronounced them correctly)
  • It did not speak the alt tags
  • It did not speak the hidden letters
  • It did not flip language in the middle of a sentence, but when the chunk STARTED with a foreign word, it flipped the entire chunk to that language's TTS.
    • Probably based on the way Gitden parses the sentence by punctuation marks (instead of tags) to feed it to TTS.
Thanks for testing! No support for either svg, alt tags or hidden letters means ditching fancy initials for accessible books, I guess. So there will definitely be two versions...

I have just installed NVDA on my PC, but it will take me a while to understand it and get it running on epubs...
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