[Feature Request] Regex Replacements in Read Aloud

[piy]

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.

[kovidgoyal]

Not something I am interested in, the correct place for such things is in the tts engines so everyone can benefit from the fixes not every application using the engines.

[piy]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Not something I am interested in, the correct place for such things is in the tts engines so everyone can benefit from the fixes not every application using the engines.

Understandable, I felt the reader may be a better place as information could be given per-book/series, which would be useful in any case there is an overlap between names

Also the reader may have more information than what is contained text sent to the tts engine