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Microsoft Edge Read aloud: Now with PDF support
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I love this feature and the natural language sounds great, hitting most words effortlessly!
I am a grad student and I use the read aloud feature while I am reading pdfs of scientific articles. It works very well for this and I use it as often as I can to have both inputs.
One feature I would like to see is dealing with hyphenation. Many scientific articles are in columns and fit tight spaces, and therefore hyphenate words. Read Aloud is unable to solve this mystery, and instead attempts to pronounce half of the word and spell out the remaining half. A setting to enable reading special case hyphenated words is much needed.
A second feature request is to look for parentheticals, and add a toggle to skip over them, or replace them with a chime. Again, many scientific articles use parentheses when citing literature, and Read Aloud for Microsoft Edge often struggles to pace itself within parentheticals, and the flow of the text can be lost in a long list of citations.
Generally though it is a very useful and reliable feature!
Thanks for taking time to read my feedback!