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Microsoft Edge Read aloud: Now with PDF support
Deleted I really like the read aloud feature but it doesn't work well on books converted to web-pages. For some reason the dictation service can't tell what spaces are and is clumping words together. I am trying to read through a chapter of the deep learning book and it stumbles consistently. It also really challenging to pick up functions and walk through charts.
https://www.deeplearningbook.org/contents/mlp.html
When there are headings at the top of a page indicating a chapter number of chapter title even if those are emboldened it reads them aloud in the same tone which doesn't make sense. There are also weird pronunciations with some of the words in this book that I haven't encountered in other texts with similar words. I have a fairly good experience with the read aloud service on most of the other PDF books online but this HTML reading is awful. I would encourage you to use this as test data to retrain the text to speech model because there is something off about the input, maybe the data format is not able to input the spaces correctly so it is causing the spaces to be translated as something else?