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Anonymous

May 26, 2020

Microsoft Edge Read aloud: Now with PDF support

Greetings Insiders, Many people use the Read aloud feature in Microsoft Edge as a daily driver. It is super convenient to just pop in an earbud and listen to content while doing something else....

Dennis5mile

Silver Contributor

Jun 03, 2020

Interesting, I have media autoplay set to limited as well and read aloud works great for me. But I'm on the latest Canary build, Version 85.0.535.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit). Have you tried it in a different build/channels to see if it only happens for certain channels?

Dennis5mile

dblagent007

Brass Contributor

Jun 03, 2020

Hmm, now I can change the media autoplay setting to "limit" and it still works. The method I used to troubleshoot the problem was open another profile where read aloud worked and set it side by side with my main profile where it wouldn't. After disabling extensions and not seeing any change, I started looking at settings that were different. The media autoplay setting was on "allow" on the profile where it worked and on "limit" on the profile where it would not work. I changed it to allow and read aloud started working, which is why I pegged it as the problem.

Now, if I change it back to "limit" it still works. I'm not sure what is going on.

Anonymous
Jun 03, 2020
dblagent007 Thanks for reporting that and sharing your updated findings. I looped our PDF team in, and they'll be looking into this shortly. And if you haven't had the chance yet, they'd appreciate it if you would submit diagnostic data through the browser (Shift+Alt+I).

Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
- dblagent007
  Brass Contributor
  Jun 03, 2020
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  I submitted formal feedback through the browser (including diagnostic data) when I made the first post. I hope it helps.
  - Anonymous
    Jun 03, 2020
    dblagent007 Perfect, we appreciate it!
    
    Fawkes (they/them)
    Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge