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piy · 06-01-2026, 01:36 PM

The ability to add regex replacements to the Text-to-speech or the Read Aloud feature would be very nice, as tts engines often pronounce names, or some kinds of expressions wrong
(As in example in the case of piper Wh-what? would be pronounced W.H.what?)

Preprocessing the sentence with regex expressions based on user defined rules could easily fix this.

They may be defined on books, series or globally

Several Readers on android support such a feature and use the standard java syntax which allows referencing to sub-expressions.

06-01-2026, 01:36 PM	#1
piy Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2026 Device: Android Phone	[Feature Request] Regex Replacements in Read Aloud The ability to add regex replacements to the Text-to-speech or the Read Aloud feature would be very nice, as tts engines often pronounce names, or some kinds of expressions wrong (As in example in the case of piper Wh-what? would be pronounced W.H.what?) Preprocessing the sentence with regex expressions based on user defined rules could easily fix this. They may be defined on books, series or globally Several Readers on android support such a feature and use the standard java syntax which allows referencing to sub-expressions.