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abhinavjain · 12-19-2021, 06:42 AM

Dear Kovid,

Thanks for the amazing work on Calibre. When I use Read aloud text-to-speech via the webserver then the built-in "Read aloud" doesn't highlight the word/sentence it is reading. I tried Chrome/FireFox/Edge and highlights don't show on all three browsers. Without the highlight tracking, it is impossible to use the feature.

Microsoft Edge's built-in speech-to-text (also called Read aloud) does show the highlight track (see below) but only in the default page setting. If the paged mode is changed to flow mode or any other layout settings are set then it stops showing as well.

Is there a way to fix this issue? I am using Calibre portable 5.34 on Windows 10 PC.

12-19-2021, 06:42 AM	#1
abhinavjain Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2021 Device: Onyx Boox NovaPro	Read Aloud not highlighting words while reading Dear Kovid, Thanks for the amazing work on Calibre. When I use Read aloud text-to-speech via the webserver then the built-in "Read aloud" doesn't highlight the word/sentence it is reading. I tried Chrome/FireFox/Edge and highlights don't show on all three browsers. Without the highlight tracking, it is impossible to use the feature. Microsoft Edge's built-in speech-to-text (also called Read aloud) does show the highlight track (see below) but only in the default page setting. If the paged mode is changed to flow mode or any other layout settings are set then it stops showing as well. Is there a way to fix this issue? I am using Calibre portable 5.34 on Windows 10 PC.