Read Aloud Feature in Firefox Android App

[eleczilla]

It will be great to have the same Read Aloud feature found in Firefox desktop reader view in the Firefox Android mobile application as well.

[Jon]

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[eleczilla]

Thank you 🙏

[Roch]

That would be great!

[Horus_Sirius]

very nice idea.

i found a sample source for hook into the windows text to speech API (Synthesizing text to speech (TTS) C++).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/microsoft/windows-universal-samples/speechrecognitionandsy...

[eleczilla]

Chrome for mobile has text to speech option now.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/chrome-rolls-out-listen-to-this-page-tts-feature-on-androi...

[dLeon]

Isn't this Read Aloud already exist in Firefox Nightly? Work quiet well. But changing speech language need to go deep to Android TTS settings.

[eleczilla]

don't know when this feature and tab grouping will be released to the public. do not understand the delay

[s1fly]

Definitely agree with this for both desktop and mobile. I think you can send articles to Pocket for reading out loud, but a built-in feature would be far better and directly supports the believe in making the web useful for everyone, promoting accessibility. 

That all said, I just remembered there is this add-on, I’ve not tried it yet, but worth a go?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/read-aloud/