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Originally Posted by theducks
The reader is supposed to say the Alt phrase
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"Supposed" being the operative word
I haven't yet seen a reading app with TTS which uses the <img> alt text - and I have tried a lot of them.
Even if/when app developers do get around to implementing this feature my guess is that users will immediately ask for a "disable" option because, if the ebook creators
have set non-blank alt text, it's text to help themselves, not the user, e.g. a page number or the image's filename. I have a vague memory that some Brandon Sanderson books did try to use alt wisely.
As an aside, if everything worked as it should, I wonder what a good "TTS scenebreak phrase" might be. Anything longer than a couple of words might get very irritating if it occurs often. Personally I think some kind of sound might be better, but we're a long way from that in your average reading app
