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Why not adopt translation tool into the TTS reading of Edge?
Microsoft TTS (text to speech) is the best on the planet, but why not apply the google or baidu translation tool into the TTS reading which make users reading article in foreign languages as quickly as native speakers. The following is a article I want to read via Edge TTS reading.
I design a bilingual mode of the Edge TTS reading:
As you can see, the green line is the sentence in reading, the golden word in bold is the word reading now. The translation of the word reading now is on the top of this word in orange. And red line is the translation of the whole sentence.(All the article have been translated already and the TTS reading tool is just to match the reading sentence.) All the font, size, color of the filling and word; animation and sound effects of appearance, emphasis, and exit could all be DIY by the user himself!
That will make users can read an article in a foreign language like the native speakers!
Hi,
Edge can read aloud Chinese text in Chinese accent and language, English text in English accent and language and so on.
so where is the problem exactly?
Another thing, (using translation + Read aloud together)
I can go here:
translate the whole page to Chinese simplified first, and then go to ellipsis menu (...) and select Read Aloud to read the entire page for me. Edge will automatically use a natural Chinese voice to read it. again no problem. it uses native Chinese natural voice.
also take a look at this:
HotCakeX Thank you for your reply! But that is not what I mean. If I wanna see something in language that I have zero knowledge about, I have bunches of extensions to use like these ones:
划词翻译 - Chrome 网上应用店 (google.com)
百度翻译：网页翻译、海淘神器 - Chrome 网上应用店 (google.com)
I just mean that if someone who want to read a foreign article with its original reading while he was not that familiar with the language, or someone who are learning a target language and try to read something in that language with the assistance of the Edge TTS reading. The Edge TTS reading will help a lot if it add this translation function!
For instance, now a Persian speaker trying to learn German with the assist of Edge TTS. If you add the translation of each word and sentence. It did help a lot and could accelerate your language learning!
"If you add the translation of each word and sentence. It did help a lot and could accelerate your language learning!"
Well you can do that too, highlight a text (word or sentence), right-click and select read aloud, or translate.
Before
in-line text translation + read aloud
After
