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Browser TTS on Linux is really terrible, for one

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What about Android?

We're really talking about iOS and Android here, if I grok the use-case.

Try it out here https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/web-speech-api/speak-easy...

It's god awful on iOS

Some of those are nightmare inducing.

Android is not really Linux here. It normally includes the proprietary TTS engine from Google, which is quite decent. Even offline, it’s many times better than what Firefox on Linux comes with.

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