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Originally Posted by Turtle91
I thought the whole purpose of the alt="" portion of the <img> tag was to provide alternatives if the image wasn't available, or to provide guidance for TTS functions. It has become habit for people to just leave that blank, or for some silly apps to put the filename in there (alt="qawsedrf.jpg") which does no good at all for the user. When filled in properly doesn't the TTS simply substitute that field??
eg. <p><img alt="T" src="../Images/T.jpg" />his is the first sentence of the chapter.</p>
should be pronounced properly...does this not work?? |
Should work is the problem. All the Android popular reading apps with TTS that I've tried
do not work. But the other point you make is also relevant, in most retail books I've seen the <img> alt text has been totally
mis-used by the book creator.
I also think that Hitch is correct that even if it did work a leading dropcap-type letter image would be pronounced separate from the rest of the first word. Properly alt-labelled chapter heading images would stand a better chance of being pronounced correctly.
ETA: TTS has a long way to go, but there isn't much incentive to make it work better when so many people seem happy to pay Audible etc for retail audiobooks read by professionals.