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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Hmmm, interesting. Which TTS were you using?
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Well, it was 10 long years ago … but I suspect the UK voices I used at that time were Ivona (and possibly SVox) with Android apps Mantano, Moon+, FBReader, CoolReader. As I recall TTS punctuation sounds (or lack thereof) could also differ in UK-English and US-English books.
Ellipses just seemed the more reliable option at that time so I made the decision to never allow dot dot dot in my books. It's quite possible that things have improved in 10 years but I wouldn't know because all my books have ellipses. I'm not publishing books for others and I suppose I'm not enough of a typography purist to care about the inter-dot-gap of ellipsis aesthetics.
ETA: In the interests of accuracy (or possibly pedantry) I should correct that timeline. I didn't get my first Android phone until 2013 so that's when the Android tests were done.
However, I had already been using TTS on Windows using paid-for "natural voices" from Nuance/RealSpeak, AT&T and Acapela since 2006. So I'm sure anything I decided in 2013 would have been influenced by those much earlier experiences.