Reading articles through natural-sounding speech synthesizers.

[Tubelerczyk]

I strongly recommend that you quickly add built-in text-to-speech synthesis to the browser, similar to Microsoft Edge. The quality of text-to-speech available through extensions isn't great – it sounds robotic. In this regard, Microsoft is significantly ahead of you.

[Jon]

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[aria1]

Microsoft uses a privacy disrespecting solution to solve this problem. Your queries are sent to Microsoft servers and the synthesised audio is sent back. There currently are no good TTS solutions that sound human-like and can run quickly on modest hardware. This is a big and ongoing field of research. If you have a GPU, you can try Kokoro as a DIY solution.

[majesticmini471]

Until users can provide their own legal narrating programs, we disagree with artificial intelligence reading aloud for us. How would we read or listen compared to those who wrote or narrated the articles? Would we all not lose more cognition by letting this happen?

[Creatrix]

Yes!  I recall that the text to speech function used to be found  (firefox) under the Edit menu (if I remember correctly) many moons ago: I found it very useful (visually impaired) and so much easier to use than the voice over.